It feels like there was a generational power shift that was supposed to have happened from Pelosi and Biden's generation to the next one down, that instead hung fire. Whatever happened seems to have affected the Republicans much less
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I don't see the relevance of this to my question ("why are there so few nationally prominent Democrats in their 50's and 60s"). What am I missing?
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Boomers lived through the cold war so they are biased against socialism
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So did Gen X and we by and large sae through all that bullshit.
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Great point & perplexing. Bright people I know of that age either went corporate early (finance, MBA, doctors, corporate scientists) or dropped out of the mainstream (self employed, organic farms etc). Virtually nobody went into public service & not even that many lawyers.
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I’m guessing post-Bretton Woods, neoliberalism took the driver’s seat, and it took a few decades to show what was wrong with it. In the meantime (well in the 80s) young politicians were being formed in the years of its greatest successes?
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So why are there so few prominent centrist/neoliberal/whatever you want to call them people who are middle aged at the top of the party? This is not a factional problem, it's the same for the left and the right of the party.
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Possible categories: 1. Term-limited governors who sorta retired; 2. so close yet so far from chairing a House / Senate committee thanks to strict seniority rules; 3. lost in a wave election such as 1994 or 2010; 4. kinda pretzeled by Third Way / Clinton-era stuff in the 90s.
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Poor leftists of that generation were left to die of AIDS, they were bombed in their homes by the police, they were persecuted by the FBI and imprisoned. They were driven underground and alienated from political power. What you're seeing is the survivor effect.
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Political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal was born in 1954. Reflect on what happened to him and people who thought like him. The loss of a generation of leftist leaders is reflected in the absence of a generation of queer radical elders. They were hunted and persecuted.
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