The President is 73 years old. The frontrunning Democrats are 77 and 78. The Senate Majority Leader is 78. The Speaker of the House is 79.
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You keep in mind that these are the folks that created all the change in the 60s and work with them.
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Yeah, but they’re not 20 anymore.
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The electorate could be young.. they don't show up.
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Similarly, I wonder if the reduction in fertility has reduced our investment in education. There has been a significant shift of costs to students & families since I was a kid.
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Was it the age of the electorate or the turmoil of the times? We watched our beloved leaders murdered. We watched young men drafted, to bleed & die in an old man's war. Where corporations were the only winners. Women finally could control their own reproductive future...
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3) Then there was the battle for Civil Rights which stands alone as the most important domestic issue of the times. Even today that battle rages on, still a work in progress. 3 steps forward 1 step back. Today's youth have an obligation to see true equality finally achieved.
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2) A lot of us were too young to vote. 21 being the legal age. We protested & some bled some even died. Kent State was horrific.There were many factors but age of the electorate takes a back seat to the Zeitgeist & the Vietnam War.
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LBJ was in his 70s and passed equal rights and other important legislation in the 1960s. It takes all ages.
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Worse, these are the people who will nominate and confirm the Supreme Court justices who will serve for the next generation, likely after they're dead.
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You remember that it’s the same electorate they just got old.
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