It's time for a generational change in the Democratic Party, it's time for the 80 year-olds who run it to start letting the 70 year-olds have some input to bring in youthful vigor.
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Goddamnit. We're all so fucked
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And likewise nothing good will come of it.
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As a young man, I remember watching TV reports about the USSR: a decadent & complacent gerontocracy; bogged down in an Afghan war; its vast hinterlands poor & despondent; its urban pockets overcrowded with apartment-dwellers; birth rates plunging.
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I remember moving to America in the 1980s and hearing jokes about how in my native Poland people had to wait in bread lines, multiple generations had to share apartments, there would be brown outs, etc. Weird to see what's happening
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They are unprepared for what's in store for the party because they are incapable of imagining it.
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Is something in store?
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Proportional electoral systems elect several times more young people than our winner-take-all system. An opportunity to introduce proportional representation to US House elections exists in the form of the
#FairRepresentationAct (HR 4000). https://www.fairvote.org/fair_rep_in_congress#why_we_need_the_fair_representation_act …pic.twitter.com/jidbhFKsjj
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it's really fun to imagine what someones reaction would be if you went back to 1990 and told them that the united states would be in the same situation as the USSR in exactly 30 years
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In 1991, I muttered that now that we had beat the Soviets, we would somehow recreate it in DC. ubiquitous wiretapping/surveillance/war in Afghanistan/LumpenProletariat.... Anything missed?
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ooo.... "politburo". Have not heard that in a long time.
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