TenuredVulture wrote:Doll Is Mine wrote:Crowleys and Capuanos have gotten complacent because they've never been challenged. It's not enough anymore to just vote the right way. We need real progressive leaders in Congress who can do more: organizing rallies, sparking new movements, motivating young people, getting people involved and registered to vote, etc.
I believe the Democratic party to going in the right direction. It needed to be done.
I agree. A huge problem with the Dems is that their leadership is really too old. Look at some of the most prominent potential Dem candidates for President--they're ancient. Political talent needs to be cultivated and developed, and for lots of reasons, the Dems haven't been doing this enough.
The people who championed Hillary Clinton's candidacy (and basically chased out any viable alternative) don't realize how long ago 1992 really was. And they also don't seem to understand that even in 1992, the Clintons and their supporters were looking back to their own boomer youth, and even though the song was "Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow" that song itself was already a relic of a bygone age.
I've complained before about the how the Occupy movement was a waste--there was a ton of energy, but since it had no direction, strategy, or even vague demands it had no impact whatsoever on actual politics. (It's relevant to note that occupy was 10 years ago!) This new crop of people I think have learned important lessons from those defeats--the opposite lesson the baby boomers in the Democratic Party took away from the political defeats of the 80s by the way--and provide great optimism.
Age: The last bastion of socially acceptable prejudice and discrimination. Would anyone find it acceptable if we said a particular group was “really too black,” or “really too Christian,” or “really too fat” or, for that matter, “really too young?”
