I'm on the older side of the Millennial generation and I can't endorse this enough. We came of political age under Bush and then saw the promise of the Obama era disintegrate into a milquetoast centrism that helped no one and instead lectured us for expecting more https://twitter.com/bentarnoff/status/1248395027736231937

With Obama we saw no real substantive change regarding the issues that defined our generation: the forever war on Terror, the pressure of student loans, the rising costs of healthcare, the threat of mass shootings, the structural racism & brutality of law enforcement

We didn't see money removed from politics. We didn't see any sort of punishment for the institutions that'd caused the financial crisis that dogged our college/graduate years. And when we did speak out, when we did demand better (Occupy, for example) we were treated as jokes

ESPECIALLY by the Democratic Party leaders. We were lectured. We were chided. We were told to sit down and let the grown ups work, to understand that it was more important to work with the Republicans than those who needed the most help

And I'm not saying these perceptions are all accurate but they are widespread perceptions that have never been addressed by anyone attempting to appeal to us. And it's not wrong to question why this time will be different

Like all the people rushing in to reply....I get it. I understand why you want to defend Obama because of who is currently in the White House. As I just said, perceptions don't have to be accurate to hold power.

And a Republican Congress didn't force Obama's drone policy