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In reply to the discussion: Dems need a young(er) nominee in 2020 [View all]delisen
(7,354 posts)are great for getting the sense of the era. So young, so fresh, so decisive, such great speeches, so charismatic, so inspiring......people fell for it....young people really connected...and then....in one brief decade........millions of dead bodies, maimed people, burned babies, destroyed cities, starvation...imagine that! what a surprise! and in the middle of what had been though to be a civilized and cultured part of the world.
Of course,I don't see any potential Democratic candidate that could turn into a Hitler or Mussolini but I think some just don't have the foreign policy experience that is very much needed today.
The party let party building slide during the past 6-8 years and that is always a mistake but I think there are a number of people prepared to run. There won't be a shortage.
Wisdom unfortunately is usually in short supply. Of course, maybe Gandhi would have been more successful and influential if he had been younger as a leader?