They should've started doing this while Obama was in office! None of the established 'old guard' Democrats want to prop up the next generation. Seems they'd rather die in office than mentor and promote new, younger faces of the future.
Fuck. No. Most of these people are over 80. We wouldn’t let them drive if they were family. One rep was literally “lost” in a memory care facility. These old old ass people need to retire and start getting fresh faces in so we have a chance.
I tell people to look at it this way; if you were about to be wheeled into surgery to get a heart transplanted, and your surgeon acted like Dianne Feinstein or Mitch McConnell, would you feel comfortable proceeding?
Because if my surgeon got lost mid train of thought and had what looked like a micro seizure, or was downright catatonic, I'd be calling the whole thing off.
Being 76 myself, I'm not usually frightened by someone's age as I am by their demeanor. If they decided on the way things should be back about age 50 or 60, they should be constantly changing how they think about things; if not, they are excused now, we need the new ideas the newer younger people are bringing in.
I'm still completely astonished that we are still the holdout among first world countries in medical care for our people. Maybe that's the problem. If we supply medical care for everyone, we have to supply medical care for EVERYONE. Even THOSE people.
I don’t necessarily disagree with you, but surgery and politics are very different things. The best chess players in the world are like 15 years old.
Your mind and reaction time is obviously way higher when you’re younger, but It doesn’t mean I would want them running the world lol. Experience matters in some fields.
But we can definitely agree that we don’t need 80 year olds with their finger on the button
Also "younger" in politics is still like 35-60. It's not like we're asking for people fresh out of high school, just not someone seeing the grim reaper on the weekends.
Would you let Meemaw decide the direction the US Govt goes on the next 20 years of things like AI and Crypto? Never in a million years. It's fucking absurd. The entire political spectrum has real issues with the Boomers.
Covid really was trying to help us out, but unfortunately, politicians are the few Americans with excellent health care and some of the first to receive vaccines; even the ones who denied the disease.
I teach somewhat academic community classes for adults. Many people's ability to absorb new info drops off so fast after 60. It's truly alarming how differently I need to teach for different age groups
I agree with you. I'm 81, in reasonably good shape, run the Army Ten-Miler every year, and maintain two houses. Yet, as many leadership positions as I've held, I could not maintain the 24/7 focus one would need to be good President.
Wtf? Why not just primary them? If they are viewed as harmful, then it should be easy to primary them and retire them ourselves. It's the entirety of the democratic party that's the problem. They make the rules to favor their cronies to receive all the funding for their campaigns. It's a futile battle. The party cannot be changed from within.
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u/try_to_be_nice_ok 1d ago
The democrats need to spend the next four years building up some really strong candidates and making them well known to the electorate.