Please tell me why I shouldn't be offended.

[bitterross]

63. As another old white guy I choose to NOT be offended and see a deeper meaning.

I'll be 55 this year and I'm trying to find a new job. I've applied for jobs that look like they took my resume and wrote the ad using my resume to describe the required experience part. Yet I get no response. I'm pretty sure they think I'm too old to learn new tricks and too old to change to fit in their environment. So I see your point and I feel your pain. I acknowledge your right to feel offended. Everyone is entitled to feel how they feel. No one should tell you not to feel some particular way. Your feelings are yours.

My take on the whole "we don't need another old white guy" isn't that people are trying to be discriminatory toward old white guys - in this case. My take is people are tired of the status quo. Which just so happens to be synonymous with "old white guys." It is clear to me now Trump and Russia played on that beautifully in the last election. The base of people who voted for Trump were the racist, bigoted, deplorable, assholes who want to BE him but never will. They're living vicariously through him. But they're not who got him elected. The people who got Trump elected were the people who are tired of the status quo. Their votes pushed him over the finish line. Sure, Russia was crucial in helping him, but they did so by targeting those people for him. They didn't change votes in the machines (that we know of yet). They pushed real people with real feelings to vote a certain way - against the status quo.

Hillary was the epitome of the status quo and the establishment. I LOVE her, I voted for her, I stuffed envelopes and went door-to-door for her. I contributed money. She was still the epitome of the status quo and the establishment.

I love Biden. I think he's very qualified. I have defended him here and elsewhere when people make allegations of sexual assault. I suspect he brought a lot of experience and wisdom to bear and assist while he was Obama's VP. Stuff we never heard about but helped Obama keep on track and out of danger.

I think the people who say "no more old white guys" are trying to avoid a 2016 repeat. Avoid the swing voters going for change over stability. I don't think Trump can fool as many people as he did the last time around. But, if people see Biden as just "more of the same establishment politics" and they sit out the election then that's just as bad as if they vote for Trump.