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Former Vice President Joe Biden has been talking about a possible 2020 run for president. His associates have stated that Biden sees himself as the “Best — or only — shot at beating Trump.”

Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. is in the final stages of deciding whether to run for president and has told allies he is skeptical the other Democrats eyeing the White House can defeat President Trump.

However, just a year ago, Biden was on stage during an interview with the L.A. Times, when he began to foam at the mouth over how little empathy he has towards the plights of the millennial generation.

“The younger generation now tells me how tough things are. Give me a break. No, no, I have no empathy for it. Give me a break,” Biden said in a most condescending tone.

“Because here’s the deal guys, we decided we were gonna change the world. And we did. We did. We finished the civil rights movement in the first stage. The women’s movement came to be. So my message is, get involved,” Biden continued.

Millennial Here!

Hi, whining complaining millennial here!

Get involved?

The millennial generation did get involved, Joe. They primarily backed Bernie Sanders, the guy the DNC screwed over. Millennials flocked in droves to support him.

In fact, that’s not the only time millennials got involved either.

“Millennials possess the ability to organize, drive awareness and influence the behavior of other generations through vast social media networks, with an ease and to a degree this country has never seen.

- Vice Impact

Let’s go back to Obama’s 2008 presidential election. 66% of those between the ages of 18–29 voted for Obama in 2008.

We’ve managed to get involved politically while working jobs that greatly underpay us under surmounting student loan debt.

Millennials are also currently making 20% less in income than boomers did during the same stages of life.

Once again, another establishment Democrat has proven just how out of touch the Democratic party has become. Alienating around 40% of your voters isn’t a very smart move, Biden. Especially since a ton of millennials are already fuming at the situation that we are currently faced with.

Millennials have been plummeted into a world where the economy has been rigged against us. The government consistently passes laws that favor corporations and Wall St while screwing over the average American.

Back in 2008, many millennials put all of their hope into Obama’s platform as you, Biden, stood by his side. Obama stood for hope when so many felt that there was none left after the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the Great Recession.

Instead of providing his constituents with real change, Obama continued down the establishment path by bailing out Wall St, involving us in 7 more interventions in the Middle East, and still didn’t give us a living wage.

Shaming millennials into submission will never win you votes. So many of us feel depressed and defeated about our futures as we’ll be the first generation to not do better than our parents despite being more educated.

Job opportunity is scarce, the minimum wage is too low and we’re all living with enormous student loan debt over our heads. In fact, many of us will be in debt until we die.

Joe’s Baby Boomer generation took advantage of many of the economic opportunities that were easily available to them and then destroyed it for any future generations. Boomers burnt through fossil fuels, helping to implement global warming, then they took control of Washington and implemented economic policies that racked up federal debt and continued to rig the system in favor of the rich.

Biden is horribly out of touch and yet the mainstream media has continued to push the narrative that he somehow represents the people. His generation helped implement neoliberalism that has continued to destroy the middle class.

What do millennials want?

A majority of millennials are left-leaning in their beliefs and political ideologies.

“Millennials were most likely to identify as liberal Democrats. In 2016, a majority of Millennials (55%) identified as Democrats or leaned Democratic; 27% described themselves as liberal Democrats — the highest share of any generation.”

- Pew Research

Millennials are now also projected to surpass Baby Boomers as the largest generation in the electorate. So shouldn’t the democratic party represent the wants and needs of their largest core group?

Unless Biden is going to be pushing for a living wage, free college, an end to the wars, and Medicare For All then he should definitely reconsider his 2020 run.

Joe Biden thinking he’s going to be president in 2020 — ‘Give me a break’.