Being around longer that the younger voters…
Older voters do NOT Trust like his wild promises that they KNOW he can’t keep…
Sanders worries and scares them just as Donald Trump does…
Throughout world history, seniors have rarely led revolutions. It’s often younger idealists who storm barricades, draft declarations and topple established orders. Until Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).
The 78-year-old front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination is an unlikely figurehead for a movement that advocates political revolution. The self-described democratic socialist captivates millennials, but he has largely failed to inspire voters in his own generation. At least so far.
Older people tend to be more settled in their political beliefs. They’re more affluent than their younger counterparts, a factor that might make them warier of big structural changes. They tend to worry more about Sanders’s age – and his heart attack – than younger voters who mostly haven’t faced their own serious health struggles yet.
Mostly, though, elderly Democratic voters fear Sanders is too far to the left to defeat President Trump. Unlike the young whippersnappers who flock to Sanders’s rallies, older folks remember the blowouts of 1988 and 1972 when their party nominated candidates who were more liberal than the country was ready to accept. In scores of interviews, they’ve expressed worry about repeating the mistakes of the past.
“I like Bernie, but I’m just afraid him tooting his socialist horn so much is going to hurt him,” said Karen Griffin, 66, a volunteer for the local Democratic Party here who remains undecided about which alternative to Sanders she will vote for in Saturday’s South Carolina primary. “A lot of the people that are my age vote. Growing up, we always heard socialism was scary, scary, scary. When my generation hears that term, it’s scary!”….
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