Maybe they should stop platforming these geriatric fucks and make space for the next generation then.
Almost anyone can run for office, including you. Why don't you?
Cool give me 300000 dollars and I'll be the next representative
@halferect Or -- hear me out -- you could either grow the fuck up, or STFU. Take your pick. Bye.
Nobody wants you here. Take the hint.
Or you can hear me out a give me the funding to run for office you dumbass
Because most people aren't millionaires
Almost anyone [with the funding] can run for office
FTFY. I'm not independently wealthy and can't afford to quit my job and campaign for office, even locally. Nor am I interested in selling myself out to corporate interests to get the funding I would need.
It's easy to be holier-than-thou behind a keyboard, though. Why don't you run for office?
Edit: lmao, the keyboard warrior seems to have blocked me
@finalarbiter Stop your childish whining. No one's going to hand you fucking change on a silver platter.
Almost anyone can run for office, including you. Why don't you?
as Timothy Snyder pointed out there's any number of good leaders out there amongst us but they have no access to the massive $ needed
He touches on this in this talk, saying many Democrats just expect some natural born leader to rise and problem solved
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEaf1kgPCbY
He used Hungary's Magyars win to highlight the problem. He started campaigning 2 years before the election, going around to every rural village and town. Who can do that, take that much time off work, drum up that much support and $ ?
Remember when Democrats aka BlueMAGA said asking Ginsberg to retire in her 80s so Obama could fill the vacancy was anti-feminist? Same thing.
At a certain age, people stop working. And at an even more advanced age, people stop driving. It obviously shows that even the sharpest of minds age. So why the hell are people allowed to work until they literally expire. We need age limits for the government. I'm sick of old people so far removed from today's culture making rules based on Jim Crow era guidelines. Our last two presidents have been barely functional, dementia-riddled puppets AT BEST.
I was confused, because Obama wasn't dementia riddled.....then I remembered Biden existed.
Thats how forgetable his term was.
With the notable exception of Obama, every US President since 1993 has been born in the 1940s. Thats over 3 decades with presidents born at almost the same time (most in the same year).
Yeah, but Clinton took office 30+ years ago. Bush took office 25+ years ago.
I get that they're old today, but that would be like 20 years from now saying Obama is too old to be president. Which 20 years from now WOULD be true, except that his term was 2009-2017.
Biden and trump? Yeah, I fully get why they're too old.
Yeah, but Clinton took office 30+ years ago
And is a little over a month YOUNGER than the dementia riddled fascist currently infesting the office.
@Lost_My_Mind You're so extremely clever.
What is this? Bots' first sarcasm? What perceived cleverness are you responding to?
@ScientifficDoggo None. That's the point. It's called 'sarcasm'. It's a human concept.
So, to be clear, you just chose to be a sarcastic ass for absolutely no reason? Do you just @ people to take Ls? Is this some sort of online masochism or are you genuinely this unfunny?
He's some kind of edge lord troll. Check out his other comments in this post.
What's been keeping them in office the last couple decades was a corrupt DNC that would blackball individuals/companies that worked to challenge incumbents, even going so far to bankrupt whole state parties to punish reps who didn't toe the party line
That's over, it's been over. Current DNC has been dumping that money that was hoarded back to state parties, so they can't use it as a club later.
And Martin ran Minnesota for a decade, he's never endorsed a candidate before the primary, never put fingers on the scales, and the result was the state going from purple to progressive insanely quickly.
Some state parties are still shitty, but these coming elections are the best chance we've had since the 90s to get new blood in.
No matter what happens, we need to get people to vote in upcoming Dem primaries
Primaries don’t mean shit when the DNC puts their thumbs on the scale to make sure candidates like Bernie lose the nomination. The problem is at least in part the DNC itself
This person regularly claims that Ken Martin’s leadership position heralds the end of that era. There’s nuance here and I don’t think we actually have clarity yet.
For example, the DNC very recently voted against banning AIPAC money in their primary elections. To be fair, they opted instead for a broad resolution condemning dark money…but that doesn’t actually prevent AIPAC from flooding primary elections with cash to tip the scales. It also doesn’t necessarily prevent dark money contributions either.
So, to me this signals nothing has changed at all. Typical weak sauce Dems, trying to get away with saying the bare minimum and actually doing nothing. I’m cynical of the party’s ability to do anything other than play identity politics pattycakes while serving the rich and Israel, and expect the same old tricks to either ratfuck or completely cancel primaries in favor of anointed reps who work for Israel above America. Consider the fact that they’re already applying massive pressure to prevent anyone from attempting to primary Schumer, one of the worst offenders of this type of treason and frankly looking quite likely to die in office as well.
Time will tell, but don’t get too optimistic…
Still waiting anything to happen that will prove it's changed with him as chair. What's sad is givesomefucks also cheers on anything the dnc does as an example of it changing.
DNC treated David Hogg like shit after he was elected to the DNC on the getting rid of geriatric incumbents. He's working outside of them now because he realizes it's rotten.
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