While campaigning for his wife, Bill Clinton, the former president speculated as to why voters are so angry during this election cycle by strangely blaming millennials (who were probably too young to vote) for the 2010 elections when Republicans gained control of the House of Representatives.
“The reason that there’s so much anxiety, intensity, anger, and blame in this election is that 80% of the American people have not gotten a pay raise since the crash eight years ago, after inflation,” Clinton began.
He then praised President Obama for bringing back jobs during his two terms, the Huffington Post reports, but he blamed millennials for income not being where it should be.
“If all the young people who claim to be disillusioned now had voted in 2010, we wouldn’t have lost the Congress, and we’d probably have our incomes back.”
He thinks that if millennials had voted during midterm elections six years ago, when the Tea Party wave put Republicans in charge of the House of Representatives, Americans would be in a much better place financially than they are now .
It’s no secret that Hillary Clinton’s campaign has been frustrated that younger people are flocking to Bernie Sanders, the seventy- four year old Democratic Socialist. The former president, who was stumping on his wife’s behalf, continued with yet another issue that frustrates younger Americans with this gem:
“A lot of young people feel like they’ve played by the rules, went to school, they’re gonna graduate with debt they can’t repay, or they’ve already graduated with debt they can’t repay, and they may not ever get to do what they really wanted to do with their lives.”
Many millennials were probably too young to vote in 2010, it should be noted.
Clinton’s speech took place in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to about 1,000 people where primary elections are scheduled to take place on Tuesday.
There was a time when Bill Clinton was the best advocate for the Democratic Party because of the success Americans enjoyed during his presidency but sadly he now seems out of touch with a very important voting block that holds the keys to victory or defeat. Blaming them for the country’s stagnant wages doesn’t help at all.
