Electile Dysfunction

* Fewer than one out of five Americans between 18 and 24 voted in the 2014 election. For the record, it was 17 percent. It’s part of the reason people such as Rick Scott get elected in “off-year” elections. That should be unconscionable: “off-year” democracy.

* We know that the disgruntled, unappeased Bernie Sanders’ crowd had a no-show hand in Hillary Clinton’s loss. We also know this: Sanders was right–and ultimately will be proven right–when he called for a single-payer (“Medicare for all”) health care system.

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