#TIRED OF BEING THE INITIATER MAC#

At the rally, he learned unaffiliated voters like him couldn't participate in the caucus. That includes voters such as Curtis Haverkamp, who attended a Bernie Sanders rally a few months back. Since September, 30,535 voters have registered with the Colorado Democratic party. 'People give some of the most negative ratings of either party that we've seen in the last 20 years,' said Kiley.īut these trends may be changing this election. Millennials are shunning political parties at an even greater rate than previous generations did, in part due to political dysfunction. But 'this is as pronounced as it's ever been.' 'Younger people tend to be less likely to affiliate with parties than older people,' said Jocelyn Kiley, a researcher with the Pew Research Center. It's a long-running pattern to see younger voters of any generation not identify with political parties. Like many unaffiliated voters, however, she's not necessarily independent and generally votes for Democrats. Neither party aligns with Heisdorffer's views, which she describes as socially liberal and fiscally moderate. 'But it's kind of that special snowflake thing that millennials get crap for all the time I think.' 'People my age will hate me for saying this,' said Heisdorffer. Like many of her friends, neither the Democratic nor the Republican party interests her. The 24-year-old lives in the Denver suburb of Westminster. That winning margin was thanks in part to voters like Sara Heisdorffer. Republican Mitt Romney should have been the favorite, 'but as it was, the unaffiliated probably washed out that difference and then created the winning margin for Obama,' said Judd Choate, who runs the elections division for the Colorado secretary of state's office. To get a sense of their political power, consider the fact that more Republicans voted in the 2012 elections than Democrats. Colorado has the second-fastest-growing millennial population in the country, and, by far, the most as a proportion of the population of any swing state. Prepare me for every part of my pilgrimage.Many are under the age of 35, the millennial generation. Maybe it won’t make us feel better, but the truth of it promises that, one day, our rest and everything else good and beautiful will be complete.Īccomplish in me all that is of thy goodness,īut bless thee for the opening gate of glory at its end. While we’re at it, in the familiar and oddly comforting weight of a song that makes us feel less alone on certain days, here’s one of my favorite passages from The Valley of Vision that gives an answer. That there’s a whole lot more for me waiting

I know maybe I’m too late, I could make it there some other time I’m always wondering if it feel like summer “There’s a whole lot more for me waiting on the other side Wake up to the moon, haven’t seen the sun in a whileīut I heard that the sky’s still blue, yeah”Īnd then a little later, oh dear Lord, a cry for the heaven he doesn’t know.

Maybe ’cause it ain’t, I just love the way it sound when I say it I’m no liar, but sometimes the truth don’t sound like the truth Why I gotta build something beautiful just to go set it on fire?

#TIRED OF BEING THE INITIATER MAC#

Mac Miller, who died tragically young, gave us depressives a gift with “Good News” - this isn’t about the Good News Gospel.īut it’s about a certain kind of depressive day.

Tired of being the initiater