As an 85 year old healthy woman, I must say I agree completely with you! I am the exception to the rule, for sure, as is Bernie Sanders. However, I think people over 75 should decline to run for office, realizing that their good fortune has a big chance of lapsing in the 4, 6 or even two years they would be in office. It is just pure hubris!
It doesn't look like the Dems are bringing their A game. I kind of get some aspects of this thinking but it avoids the situation on the ground. The guy is a legit coffin dodger at a time we need a quality team of alive and not on their last toenails reps. It's super frustrating. This isn't about you and your ambitions, it's about us and our legitimate needs.
I am 71 years old and am really fed up with my generations self serving, self indulgent behavior. Nothing but excuses and half hearted attempts to confront incredibly serious problems. Or worse we have our heads stuck somewhere deep where they shouldn’t be. I have nowhere near the stamina and energy I used to have. We need to at least get out of the way or better yet, aid the up and coming leaders like AOC.
I watched a segment with Rep. Jamie Raskin on Brian Taylor and he explained this. You have to “earn the experience” and he was comparing terms served - how many he had, how many AOC had, and then Connelly. So it’s this seniority system they’ve created and by the time your turn comes up - well you’re lucky enough to still be in office and lucky enough to be alive. Then they pointed at Chuck Grassley who is 91 and unfortunately my state senator. Problem with Iowa - people don’t vote or sit it out!
regarding credentials, in American history it used to be necessary to say that a leader came from a humble background, born in a log cabin, etc. That claim is no longer possible.
Here's a thought - we often hear of how wonderful it is if a person cannot tell a lie. In our day and age, imagine a person who could not speak a single word of BS. Could such a person exist? We are fed on BS by advertising from the moment we are aware of the world. "The news" from commercial media is always brought to us with a spin and the sports interview proves that one can talk indefinitely and not say anything.
The motto of Northwestern University is (in Latin) "whatsoever is true" and yet pro-Palestinian protests have been entirely shut down, so even putting something in Latin doesn't keep it from being BS. Knowing the truth is said to set us free, but what a challenge it is to find it. It's no wonder people are cynical.
Doesn’t it seem like the Democratic Leadership at least in the house is asking their members to be Lemmings. It certainly appears to be a march to the sea with no apparent or long term benefit
“We need the best general we can put on the battleground with four more years, prospectively, of Donald Trump. And that’s what the Democratic caucus overwhelmingly decided to do.”“
Which is the more disturbing possibility - that he’s wrong or that he’s right with this assessment of the Democratic congressional bench?
Good gravy. Hell, I'm old but it would never occur to me to frame my value to the electorate in that fashion. And I just do regulatory stuff and grants for a small town but I want to bring folks along to replace me. Why am I surprised?
BTW, I'm staff--not an elected official--and have the requisite experience but understand the essential need for my replacement. This is a significant issue for water and wastewater professionals--why we're working with local schools to feed the pipeline.
I always love the argument that, "Well, we could pay people a living wage, but instead we should look outside of our borders to the people whose governments we have overthrown and replaced with brutal US business friendly autocrats. The fiends we support should make them desperate enough to work for peanuts! I'll finally be able to afford the support yacht for my main yacht, which is too big to fit in a marina.
I actually found him intelligible and didn't mind his voice. The real problems with him being in leadership are that he has a form of cancer that has a very high mortality rate, so he won't be able to work soon, and his massive sense of entitlement.
Having our country run by a gerontocracy is getting real old
LoL! U got that right! "Real Old"! 😜
Perfection!
Badum tss
As an 85 year old healthy woman, I must say I agree completely with you! I am the exception to the rule, for sure, as is Bernie Sanders. However, I think people over 75 should decline to run for office, realizing that their good fortune has a big chance of lapsing in the 4, 6 or even two years they would be in office. It is just pure hubris!
We need the best and the brightest. Not the longest serving
It doesn't look like the Dems are bringing their A game. I kind of get some aspects of this thinking but it avoids the situation on the ground. The guy is a legit coffin dodger at a time we need a quality team of alive and not on their last toenails reps. It's super frustrating. This isn't about you and your ambitions, it's about us and our legitimate needs.
Amen!
I am 71 years old and am really fed up with my generations self serving, self indulgent behavior. Nothing but excuses and half hearted attempts to confront incredibly serious problems. Or worse we have our heads stuck somewhere deep where they shouldn’t be. I have nowhere near the stamina and energy I used to have. We need to at least get out of the way or better yet, aid the up and coming leaders like AOC.
But but but, I called leader first!! 😤 It's MY TURN 😭
I watched a segment with Rep. Jamie Raskin on Brian Taylor and he explained this. You have to “earn the experience” and he was comparing terms served - how many he had, how many AOC had, and then Connelly. So it’s this seniority system they’ve created and by the time your turn comes up - well you’re lucky enough to still be in office and lucky enough to be alive. Then they pointed at Chuck Grassley who is 91 and unfortunately my state senator. Problem with Iowa - people don’t vote or sit it out!
Yeah, they say seniority until someone they don’t approve of, with seniority, runs for a leadership position
regarding credentials, in American history it used to be necessary to say that a leader came from a humble background, born in a log cabin, etc. That claim is no longer possible.
Here's a thought - we often hear of how wonderful it is if a person cannot tell a lie. In our day and age, imagine a person who could not speak a single word of BS. Could such a person exist? We are fed on BS by advertising from the moment we are aware of the world. "The news" from commercial media is always brought to us with a spin and the sports interview proves that one can talk indefinitely and not say anything.
The motto of Northwestern University is (in Latin) "whatsoever is true" and yet pro-Palestinian protests have been entirely shut down, so even putting something in Latin doesn't keep it from being BS. Knowing the truth is said to set us free, but what a challenge it is to find it. It's no wonder people are cynical.
Doesn’t it seem like the Democratic Leadership at least in the house is asking their members to be Lemmings. It certainly appears to be a march to the sea with no apparent or long term benefit
“We need the best general we can put on the battleground with four more years, prospectively, of Donald Trump. And that’s what the Democratic caucus overwhelmingly decided to do.”“
Which is the more disturbing possibility - that he’s wrong or that he’s right with this assessment of the Democratic congressional bench?
Good gravy. Hell, I'm old but it would never occur to me to frame my value to the electorate in that fashion. And I just do regulatory stuff and grants for a small town but I want to bring folks along to replace me. Why am I surprised?
BTW, I'm staff--not an elected official--and have the requisite experience but understand the essential need for my replacement. This is a significant issue for water and wastewater professionals--why we're working with local schools to feed the pipeline.
Selfishness knows no bound.
He reminds me of Ruth Bader Ginsburg; denying your future doesn't stop it from happening.
Happy new year Ken you're a champ!
I always love the argument that, "Well, we could pay people a living wage, but instead we should look outside of our borders to the people whose governments we have overthrown and replaced with brutal US business friendly autocrats. The fiends we support should make them desperate enough to work for peanuts! I'll finally be able to afford the support yacht for my main yacht, which is too big to fit in a marina.
"God bless America!"
I actually found him intelligible and didn't mind his voice. The real problems with him being in leadership are that he has a form of cancer that has a very high mortality rate, so he won't be able to work soon, and his massive sense of entitlement.
Nothing will change. Happy New Year.