Jim Alfredson

"It’s quite easy to reflexively dismiss this as just idealistic students being idealistic students. However, I think there is something far more important at play in the overwhelming enthusiasm now being shown amongst those who may have just voted in their first general election, and those who are going to in four years’ time. And that something is the fact that young people are fucked."

The game has been rigged since 1980. Ok, it was always rigged but the rigging became blatant and unapologetic and propagandized as good for us starting in 1980. And we're tired of it. I'm no longer "young", but I've seen the writing on the wall since 2003; the current model is not only grossly unfair (not that unfairness in and of itself is deserved but what I'm talking about is a purposeful manipulation of how the system should work to benefit only a fraction of a tiny slice) but also completely unsustainable. It cannot be allowed to proceed unfettered any longer.

So yes, dismiss the #feelthebern hashtags as youthful idealism if you want, but the tide is turning.