oh no the old fucks are “gearing up to push back” whatever will we do against their strongly worded letters
I think it’s orchestrated, myself.
It seems nihilistic and doesn’t seem to have any real aim other than further dividing Democrats. There is nothing inherently good or bad about someone’s age (well, unless they haven’t fully developed the PFC - there is a reason there are age requirements at the lower end) when you are trying to determine if they are fit to lead.
Now, if people were to propose using more advanced screening techniques to catch things like Alzheimer’s or other problematic things (I’d be a fan of trying to screen out various traits that lead to really bad leadership, myself, but obviously implementation would have many problems and of course many detractors), that might make more sense. But no, we are listening to what sounds like petulant teenagers having tirades about older people and it’s rather boring. All of us were 14 once, but most of us evolved since then. The idea that you are only going to have representation from people who are in your “generation” is an incredibly silly and narcissistic one.
Lastly I keep saying this, but: this particular period of time is really not going to age very well if life extension and other breakthroughs come online.
Term limits and age limits plz
Also kill Citizens United thx
and some form of ranked voting.
And maybe some form of nation-wide recall systems to deal with the fettermans of the world.
Capital gains tax reform. Companies should reinvest in production and research, not stock buybacks and golden parachutes. This could also curb enshitification.
Slap a tax for any company whose ceo makes some percentage more than its core work force.
We can get all fancy on the math, but their pay is not commensurate to the value they bring
Older Dems: we want younger people to be more engaged in politics, the more younger people that vote, the better we do.
The population: we want younger people to be Democrats instead of old people.
Older Dems: when we said we wanted younger people, we didn’t mean like that.
By young they meant candidates that are only in their 60’s
Those spry 60 year olds will really get the youth to the ballot boxes!
Establishment Dems need to make way for younger and more progressive incumbents. It’s clear that they will continue to cling to power until they die before doing so though.
Green and Menefee will go to a runoff in May. Green swatted away questions about the age factor on Wednesday, declaring, “I am generational change.”
Yeah, I’m gonna go ahead and say when you find yourself paraphrasing mother fucking Emperor Palpatine it’s time to stop being a senator
I’ve always wanted the age of government office to be tied to the average age of stroke/heart attack in your state. Your ass is out at that age unless you can bring that number down through comprehensive healthcare reform.
Oooh I like this idea
Nothing is going to change democratically at this point
