Clinton’s proposals wouldn’t just redistribute income; they would also “predistribute” income by rewriting rules on labor unions and mergers that would give workers more bargaining power and create more competition in industries that have calcified into quasi-monopolies.

This plan is not anywhere near as ambitious as Bernie Sanders’ one-time promise to Denmarkify the country in one fell swoop. But Clinton’s policy matrix is both radical in its breadth and incremental in depth. It touches nearly every station of economic policy, from entrepreneurship and immigration to welfare and retirement, while using the soft clay of existing policy to sculpt a more liberal country.

Will any of these policies actually become law? Eh. The GOP will almost certainly keep control of the House of Representatives, while the Senate remains a toss up. Republicans have demonstrated no interest in helping the Oval Office achieve its aims in the past eight years. With some Republican senators now promising to block any Clinton Supreme Court nominee, bipartisanship in Washington now seems to be an act just shy of treason.

But this is where young voters come in, again. Generation Y is the largest in American history, with the power to shape electoral politics for decades. But for now, this power in numbers is merely hypothetical, since most young people simply don’t show up to vote. Baby Boomers currently outvote their children's generation by almost 30 percentage points. In midterm elections, even more young people stay home, and at local level, the median age of voters in mayoral elections is 60. That means local elections essentially have the demographics of primetime cable news.

In politics, young voters are at risk of becoming the opposite of the cliche of an orderly child: heard, but not seen. In the last few years, young people have successfully staged several boisterous outbursts—first with Occupy Wall Street and then again with the Bernie Sanders campaign. Both episodes were the political equivalent of a sharp yell, reaching a high volume and then returning to relative silence.

But political change is less like yawping and more like droning, a boring of hard boards. “Boring,” young liberal readers might be thinking, “is the perfect word for our candidate.” But if those same readers are serious about remaking the country in their preferred image, change will indeed require the maddeningly slow and arduous cumulation of vote after vote after vote. The next one comes on Tuesday. Whether or not they realize it, liberalism’s young revolutionaries and Hillary Clinton are perfect together.