Campaign finance reform is the mother of all issues. A lot of young people know this.
Then they should be focusing on voting for the House and Senate because a President can't change the laws.
Maybe Bernie can't do much with executive action, but it helps to have someone in charge who will at least try. He could also use the bully pulpit and rile up voters for the mid terms.
Answer me, what is so magically different about Bernie that will cause him to get young voters out to mid term that Obama, with his revolutionary ground campaign that survived his election, didn't have. Do not talk to me about his platform. What is the actually ground game that the people have to keep his momentum going.
You guy keep framing as if I view Bernie as the enemy. He is not. He is very good candidate. If he is the best we have, I will vote for him. I passed on Hillary last time cause I went for Obama's youth. Obama did fine giving the shit sandwich he was handed, but he did not bring as much change, because the voters failed him. Unless Bernie supporter can show me how their movement is superior to Obama's, I'm not going to switch just cause the youth are behind him.
You can figuritavely beat up on young voters till you're blue in the face, but that's not really going to be a convincing approach on a large scale.
Here is an amazing fact. Everyone once was a youth voter. Your not special. Everyone knows that guy who didn't vote til they were 30. Or that lady who championed every exciting fringe candidate. Very few took the power of their vote and their voice seriously. We know from experience not to rely on the youth vote cause we were once those flaky people ourselves. In 5, 10, 15 years you'll be one of us. You'll either be a voter, or one of those people who blame everyone but themselves for not voting. If you want to make a change in society, do it yourself. Be that excitement for someone else. Don't wait for someone to come along and excite you. Your failure to act is your own.