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In reply to the discussion: Dear Mr. HOGG, Please educate yourself first. Who has stood with you? [View all]Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)There is a time when the baton gets passed to the younger generation. Some don't want to let go of the baton, though.
It is time, I think, for a younger crowd to start getting into positions of power in the Democratic Party, just like in the Republican Party. Paul Ryan, Rubio, and others.
Both Democratic leaders are very old in their way of thinking and in their energy level. I am over 60, myself. It's a new world, new environment. The party needs fresh blood, a younger outlook. Or to put it another way, if we want the younger generation, we have to INCLUDE the younger generation in positions of leadership. Not 18 or 21. But even 40 is in the right direction.
I have noticed a lack of passion in Pelosi & Schumer. An inability to understand a changing world, like thinking that Trump is really a President and would act that way, when most in the country could see it wasn't so.
They're good in their jobs. But others could be good, or better. If the party wants to ignite passion that is more than anger at the opposition, it has to have leaders that ignite passion. Obama did it. He's younger.