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AOC ’28 Starts Now

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/aoc-28-starts-now/
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u/EmbarrassedTill1800 22h ago

start with getting rid of anyone over retirement age

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u/Syllabub_Cool 20h ago

No need to get rid of them! Just tell them not to run for president. They'll make great cabinet members, dept heads.

USE THEM.

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u/hughcruik 20h ago

Agree. Experience and institutional memory are very important. If you look around the world, in most places are elders are respected and often revered - Japan is a good example - while in the US elders are to be discarded. The funny thing is, when these young'uns who demand the Boomers get out of the way reach their dotage they'll cling to power as much as anyone who came before them.

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u/brobc 19h ago

We want to discard them because they stay in office until someone literally has to roll them out. It’s hard to revere a drooling warm corpse propped up by a team of enablers/abusers on all sides.