1. One of the interesting things about Trump's tweet of the "white power" video is that the cultural civil war has spread inside The Villages, the massive Florida retirement communities that are the heartland of Trumpism.
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@cushbomb had some bleak thoughts about what it means for old people to dominate the election as they do: "The electorate is old. The electorate is dying. The country is dying. The contest is between two different ways to be a dying old person."pic.twitter.com/4dnszPOoeU
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6. But contra this bleak picture, the fact remains that the gerontocracy can't last forever. As in the USSR, there will have to be a generational shift at some point. More here:https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-geriatric-race-war/ …
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The Midwest and Northeast are not sending their best to Florida.
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Bernie Sanders is 78, an aging cadre stuck in a sclerotic ideology. Biden is wise enough to use his appeal to older voters to transition to a new generation.
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Except younger Americans overwhelmingly supported sanders so I don’t know what is sclerotic about his ideology
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Hypothesis, US and to a certain extent UK are gerontocracies because old people vote and young people don’t; because young people expect more change after one election than will happen without revolution.
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US further down that path in part because voting seems genuinely so much harder in young, left-leaning urban areas - UK voting quicker with usually only one or two things to vote for at once, and voting hours are 7am-10pm.
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Remember when you smeared the much younger Hillary in favor for 103 year old Bernie?
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This is wrong. Democrats' whole deal is about improving the future, not allowing old notions to hold back people. Biden and Pelosi have not given up their leadership positions-- because, why should they?-- but they have promised to push forward younger voices.
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Not necessarily YOUNG voices-- they aren't ready (too dumb, too inexperienced, too cynical)-- but younger voices with fresh perspectives. Kamala Harris, Katie Porter, Lauren Underwood, Stacey Abrams, AOC, Hakeem Jeffries, etc. are leaders and are doing fine.
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