“We’re just shocked and really deeply saddened and confused and kind of feel like this is the first real tragedy that we’ve been old enough to understand …” Wheelwright said. “We were kind of too young to really grasp 9/11 and what it meant for the country, and now we’re faced with a similar situation of just feeling really lost.”
Said Bick: “I came late to my class and there were very few people there and I don’t think I’m going to make it to my next class.”
At least one professor preemptively canceled class.
Do either of them know any Trump supporters? “I saw someone on Facebook and I unfriended them,” said Wheelwright.
Voters ages 18 to 29 chose Hillary Clinton over Trump by a 55 percent-to-37 percent margin, according to the Pew Research Center. But their excitement was tepid in comparison to the zeal shown for Bernie Sanders during the primary and for Barack Obama during the past two elections. In 2008, Obama won 66 percent of the young vote, compared to John McCain’s 32 percent.
“I was working at Nectar’s and watching the whole thing,” Goodhue said, of Tuesday night’s unfolding election results. “When it got to the point of 244 [electoral votes for Trump], then I was like all right, shit.”
Goodhue is a senior majoring in political science but she no longer has any desire to enter the field. She’s more interested in making use of her minor in horticulture and agriculture. “I’m from Massachusetts, so there’s that whole pot thing now,” she said.
She said that with Trump headed for the White House, “I’m really afraid for the environment.” (The president-elect has called climate change a Chinese hoax.)
And while he doesn’t agree with the president-elect on social issues such as abortion, they do have one thing in common. “Similar to Trump, I want to be a developer,” Pace said. His primary concern right now: how the market will react.
Most people walked briskly to and from class. It was chilly and overcast and no one seemed in the mood to linger. Later, students would gather for a candlelight vigil.
He had been carrying it around all day.
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Poor Generation Snowflake
Those who are shocked and dismayed because Trump won cannot complain if they either did not vote or wrote in a non-electable person.
Hey kids it’s time to join the real world, you don’t always get what you want. When things don’t go your way in life you don’t get to sit on your ass and have a pity party. You get up and get to work. This generation has got to start being a little less sensitive. I hope the tea and meditation help heal you hurt feelings. Sounds like UVM and the other fine universities in this country have given up on education of how the world works and preparing young people to enter the world as functioning adults and instead ponders to the little kids feelings. That’s because those that can’t do teach. The educators of this country have proven themselves to be people with no real experience. All the parents of college students across the country should be asking themselves what they are paying for and what type of return are they and their kids getting on their investment. I hope UVM takes the cost of yesterday’s lost opportunity to learn a real lesson off everyone’s bill.
These kids have every right to be terrified. Need we review all of the awful things Trump has said, done, and promised? The poor, the working class, and the environment all stand to suffer enormous losses. And the scariest thing is, we don’t really know what is going to happen. What does Trump really stand for? Nothing. Who does he really care about? No one. He cares only for himself, his brand, his image. Don’t be fooled by the reality TV star. He doesn’t care about you.
I’m so glad the earlier commenters have the privilege of feeling secure in their class and social position and taunting a younger generation. Well, sounds about right. Older generations don’t stand to suffer the way the younger generation does, because the most insidious policy shifts – environmental, social benefits, healthcare and education, reduced taxes on the wealthy, global isolationism – will take time to truly devastate this country and the world. You won’t have to be around to see the worst of it. These kids are calling for compassion. I say we stand with them.
Elections occur every 4 years and sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. This time these kids lost and they think the world will end. We have had enough checks in our system to prevent a collapse, just it may not be the way they wanted. Oh well that is life
I don’t much care for Donald Trump and/or a bulk of his policies but get over yourself. You don’t think Hillary was going to do much for the poor, the working class, and the environment, do you? Hillary was going to sell those kids’ futures to Goldman Sachs in the form of student loans. That is, if they didn’t end up fighting in one of the wars she started. Hillary was alarmingly silent as the government threatens to stab all of the Native Americans at Standing Rock in the back in the name of slightly cheaper gas that can be taxed more. Don’t be fooled by the queen of the elite. She doesn’t care about you.
Philo manages to turn everything — everything — into her pathological hatred of Hillary. Bad weather? Evil Hillary conspiracy. Stock market down? Evil Hillary conspiracy. Philo caught a cold? Evil Hillary conspiracy. Car needs to be fixed? Evil Hillary conspiracy. You’re clearly psycho. Get help.
The people who forced Hillary on the rest of the country are the reason Trump was elected. Remember that while you’re crying about the horrors of Trump being president.
“The people who forced Hillary on the rest of the country are the reason Trump was elected. Remember that while you’re crying about the horrors of Trump being president.”
Wrong, Ms. Conspiracy Theory. Wrong, wrong, wrong. Nobody forced Hillary on us. She is free to run for President just like you are. She became the Democratic nominee because she got more votes than Crazy Uncle Bernie. Way, way, way more. She also got more votes than Donald Trump. Go on your meds.
That’s cute that you think the democratic primary was a fair election of anyone and everyone who wanted to run for president. Likewise on the national election.
Tinfoil hat conspiracy theory alert: the election was controlled by aliens at Area 51.
Knowyourassumptions first I fined it odd that Seven Days has not edited your post. I have had post removed from this site in the past and was informed by Seven Days Staff member Matthew Roy that it was removed because ” seven days does not allow personal attacks ” to be posted, and your comments to Philo seem very personal. That being said wiki leaks has a spotless record when it comes to reporting true facts and the releases about how the Hillary team and the DNC conspired to railroad Bernie in the primary shows how crooked she and her team were. Then there are the videos of her team sending operatives to Trump rallies to insight violence just despicable for someone that wants to represent the free world to act that way. I would say more but my post would be removed because it does not fit seven days platform.
Guess you missed the part about Philo claiming not only that the PRIMARY was supposedly unfair, but also that the GENERAL election was unfair (and the implication that said unfairness caused the election of Trump). She offers no evidence of that (par for the course for her).
Philo constantly throws fact-free, conspiratorial opinion-bombs on this site, including personal, hateful attacks on Hillary and her supporters and glowing, uncritical love for Bernie. Challenged to support her wild opinions (like her statement last spring that the mainstream media was not even reporting Bernie’s primary wins — a plainly and obviously false statement), she does not.
It’s amazing to me how much the Hillary-hating Bernie zealots and the Hillary-hating Trump zealots are exactly alike and overlap.
My words are true on 2 accounts. First, the democratic primary was not a fair process (see citizen). Neither was the national election (giving questions to Hillary ahead of the debate for example) for that matter. Second, not just anybody can run for president, even if he/she meets the criteria established. It’s a big, big, big money endeavor. Your worldview (or maybe just reading comprehension) is narrow and seemingly interferes with your ability to achieve general happiness. I wish you the best.
“Your worldview (or maybe just reading comprehension) is narrow and seemingly interferes with your ability to achieve general happiness.”
Dear Philo, I appreciate your concern for my happiness, and I return it. But, in fact, you must have been looking in the mirror when you wrote the above. Your posts here demonstrate that 1) you routinely blurt out political things that may or may not be true or rational and for which you offer no analytical support, 2) that you accuse people of terrible things (Miro, Sinex, Hillary, police, etc.) and call them nasty, nasty names, 3) that your worldview is incredibly narrow (not to mention paranoid), and 4) those posts express so much unhappiness, bitterness, and anger. Good luck to you.