Kevin Drum is the perfect exemplar for how older, financially-secure people in this country are fundamentally disconnected from and utterly ignorant of the issues affecting younger people.

No one cares if Hillary Clinton is honest or not. No one.

What matters is that she represents a sort of chummy coziness with Wall Street and the financial predators who in all of recent history have demonstrably and repeatedly harmed the nation and the lives of these young people — often assisted by those in the same age bracket as Clinton. All the while as the predation, depredation and its results have played out, these same people were accusing younger folks of being lazy, shiftless and not willing to work. This despite their being either no jobs, terrible jobs, or the “sharing economy” existing as the only options available to those under 30.

The problem with Clinton is that she represents the neoliberal consensus, where immorality itself is codified both into the norms and laws of the nation, where the mores themselves are monstrous and inhuman. This is what younger people are rejecting. It has nothing to do with the direct truth value of any Clinton statement. It is the entire Weltanschauung that is being shunned.

Drum is old enough that he’s both been insulated from and directly benefited from this system that is now greatly harming younger people. And he lacks empathy and is a Good Liberal (which isn’t really liberal at all) so he lacks even the ability to see these things.

When Drum was 18, college was either free or nearly so. A job was easy to get (it was often simply a matter of walking in the door). Housing was even as compared to inflation 50-80% less dear depending on where you lived. Health care was also 80-90% cheaper.

As I’ve pointed out before, everything that defines the good life is now much, much more expensive and out of reach to many young people and probably always will be. They are extremely aware of this and it shapes their politics from beginning to end, as it should.

Drum’s duplicitous stupid-ass graphs that show that social benefits spending has actually increased over the last 20 years only show — though he’s a liar so he’ll never write this — that Social Security payments to the elderly have increased because they are increasing in number.

Millennials aren’t giving Clinton the cold shoulder because they’ve been misled by the press, deceived by third party candidates, or because they are immature — no, they are rejecting Clinton because she and the political dynasty and larger movement she’s a part of have been and will continue to be directly harmful to them.

Seems like a good reason for rejection to me.