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2020 US elections: voter turnout or Pelosi turnoff?
2020 US elections: voter turnout or Pelosi turnoff?
Let’s be honest. The Democratic leadership is too old. Yes, accuse me of ageism, but the fact is that the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, is 79. The House Democratic Majority Leader, Steny Hoyer, is 80 and the Democratic Majority Whip, Jim Clyburn, will be 79 in a couple of days.
All are older than the average life expectancy in the United States, which stood at 78.7 years in 2018.
With age comes wisdom and experience. No doubt. But with age also comes a greater commitment to the status quo, because the older we get, the more we have to lose from change.
She quickly lasered in on the chief architect of the Green New Deal, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (29), and her young freshmen colleagues in the House, partly in a fit of “feminist envy” and, of course, because they were a threat to the status quo and the way things are done.
Pelosi also surrendered to the Senate Majority leader, Republican Mitch McConnell, when she deleted language from the $4.6 billion border funding bill of the House that demanded to “protect migrant children,” only so that the tired, aging lawmakers could go home for the 4th of July.
Who cares about principles, when you want to take time off? The border bill passed and, of course, it was rightly opposed by the young Democratic “troublemakers.”
Bernie Sanders (77), another near-octogenarian top contender for the Democratic nomination for president, said a couple of days ago that Nancy Pelosi was “a little bit” too tough on Ocasio-Cortez.
Of course, Joe Biden the apparent front-runner of the Democratic race, who would be 78 by the time he swears the oath of office, if elected, is largely silent on the matter. He is still reveling in the good old days, when he, as a young member of the Senate, civilly struck deals with his Segregationist colleagues.
But, let me equally clear: If Joe Biden or Bernie Sanders become the nominee of the Democratic Party and if Nancy Pelosi and her “experienced” friends continue their assault on real change promoted by fresh, young minds, I will not vote on Election Day in 2020. Enough is enough.
Let Donald Trump and the Republican Party win and move this country even further towards a failed state. Democrats will bear responsibility for this descent. This time it will be the old guard that has to live with that responsibility