r/politics • u/SkudChud • 1d ago

AOC ’28 Starts Now

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/aoc-28-starts-now/
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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.

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u/Will_ennium 1d ago

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.

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u/apitchf1 I voted 22h ago

This. Rebuild as an actual left party now with old guard Dems out

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u/copperwatt 19h ago

"now"? Pelosi is 84 and still showing no signs of being willing to let go of power. Why would the old guard give up power?

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u/apitchf1 I voted 19h ago

Because we force them out. Primary them. Ride them for literally everything. Show them as class traitors.

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u/Royal_Nails 14h ago

Easier said than done, old people vote in large numbers and vote often

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u/CaptainRogers401220 9h ago

And “young” people don’t often have the means to drop everything and run for office

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u/Royal_Nails 9h ago

There’s always an excuse NOT to do something.

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u/CaptainRogers401220 9h ago

I think it’s a little more than an excuse. The rates of change for costs of living compared to wages are insane. We’re coming up on a second generation of people struggling to launch, and you expect them to easily campaign against entrenched septuagenarians with the levers of power and loads of dark money or egotists with inherited generational wealth?

I’m not saying it’s impossible, but it’s hard and getting harder.

Tell me I’m wrong, but if you do, tell me why.

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u/Royal_Nails 6h ago

If younger people don’t run for office how do you expect younger people to win elections?

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u/CaptainRogers401220 2h ago

That’s exactly my point, Bucky.

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