I'm a 63 yr-old and I'm tired of old establishment Dems whining about our great Young Democrats

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63. I don't even know who you're talking about.

By far most young dems, voters and elected reps, are part of the party's great coalition. Is that handful of new reps who ran on counterculture campaigns being called "Young Dems"?

I'll tell you, though, most of the new reps in congress ran to be Democrats and are working hard as Democrats to accomplish the goals they ran on and elect more Democrats.

We elect more young people to our legislatures every 2 years without fail. And those we elected 4, 6, 8 years ago didn't somehow become old just by being relected.

Nor are young people somehow not young because they know that democracy requires cooperation to achieve common goals. This is as real as gravity -- democracies function BY different factions and parties coming together to achieve agreement. That is what representative democracy IS.

Most young people understand that very well, Otterbein. Of course. It requires only modest intelligence and basic self honesty. How sad, and dysfunctional, and problematic, that some can grow old in a liberal democracy never respecting what they have or understanding how and why it works.