Sanders won't endorse Feinstein

[angrychair]

212. Not the point though, is it?

she has been in the Senate for 26 years. In a job the Founding Fathers never intended to be a long term job. Obviously, It’s not about her specifically, it’s about the health and viability of our Party over the long term.

The average age of Democrats in Congress is over 61, the oldest ever. We praise young people, like those from Florida, for becoming politically involved but deny any aspirations of seeking elected office as the opportunity doesn’t realistically exist and even if they tried they would be ridiculed and insulted for trying to run against a sitting Democrat.
The cold hard truth is that what these young people see is not “experience and years of service” but 70 and 80 year olds, actually older than many of their grandparents, that they see little connection with, that have been there a very long time and are still struggling with racism and gay marriage and women’s rights and gun control and birth control, things congress still fights about they see a more simple truth. Trust me I’ve asked, a lot, in very broad circles.

I’m not young but any stretch of the imagination and their are a great many members of Congress that have been there the majority of my life. The most common names I hear for President in 2020 are people in their 70s and 80s or people that will turn that age while in office.

At some point they have to make way for a younger generation and to deny that reality risk our relevance as a Party in the future.