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Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
18. I am sort of conflicted.
Thu Jul 23, 2020, 04:25 PM
Jul 2020

New people bring in new ideas. People who are generationally younger bring insight of how the future should go. For example, myself as a baby boomer can’t truly imagine how things 50 years from now will look, because I don’t have the generational makeup to have experienced some of the things that will lead to that future. But a person who say is 28 years old should be able to marginally imagine what that future will look like because that person has experienced situations which will morph toward that future.

Seniority is a valuable advantage to have, but if a person has become stale and out of touch, then having a less senior person in place may not be as bad as some would believe. It all is a delicate process and people need to be careful when advocating one approach over the other.

Biaggi was a crook. Engel is not. Budi Jul 2020 #1
Yeah, but consider what really mattered DFW Jul 2020 #4
Yeah, democracy sucks Yeehah Jul 2020 #7
Out of context statement. What was the conversation that included that snippet? Budi Jul 2020 #13
He did not co-author the Green New Deal Yeehah Jul 2020 #16
It's. What. The. Constituents. Voted. For. Arazi Jul 2020 #8
He also opposed the Obama/Biden Iran Nuclear deal liskddksil Jul 2020 #17
Bowman damn well better deliver as a Congressman. . . DinahMoeHum Jul 2020 #2
Is the granddaughter anything like her granddad? Blue_true Jul 2020 #3
Not in the least. . . DinahMoeHum Jul 2020 #9
Thanks. She seems like a person who has a big future ahead of her in leadership. nt Blue_true Jul 2020 #11
Alessandra Biaggi NY State Senator Budi Jul 2020 #5
I looked up her bio. Looks pretty solid and she seem to be one of the new Blue_true Jul 2020 #6
A rising star, indeed. DinahMoeHum Jul 2020 #10
A lot of people complain about the older politicians in our party not making way for younger Blue_true Jul 2020 #12
Kinda of "cutting off your nose to spite your face" politics, is more like it. Budi Jul 2020 #14
I am sort of conflicted. Blue_true Jul 2020 #18
Alot of people also talk about the older politicians as having no value. Budi Jul 2020 #15
That is an empty-headed proposition if taken at it's core declaration. Blue_true Jul 2020 #20
If we couldn't primary incumbents we wouldn't have AOC. nt jalan48 Jul 2020 #19
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