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In reply to the discussion: Love it when AOC pushes Wingnuts' buttons; not so much mine about FDR [View all]UTUSN
(70,680 posts)* I wasn't raised with street smarts, was drilled with a certain amount of paying dues, wait-your-turn; deference to respected figures, etc. Frequently enough in work life, particularly starting in the '90s with the coming of voting-off-the-island & trickster-alliances & networking - I was shunted aside by my opposites. So there's some of that in "people mad new congresspeople (shooting off their mouths)".
* Also, as a Boomer, my generation of Hippies thought we could toss "anybody over thirty" (and 5,000 years of civilization's history) on the trash heap, could re-make the world like a college bull session of "If I Were King of the World." It has taken the entire last half of our generation to attempt to correct ourselves.
* "these new congresspeople" are not a never-before-seen phenomenon in human experience. They ain't MOZART. They will contribute - inescapably so - but at my age of 72 I won't be around to see their improved selves brought about their own hard knocks to come. So I'm allowed to be "so mad" before I'm gone!1