Let’s be honest…..the Democrats have taken the eyes off the prize…..they spend all their time promoting their candidate for president so much that they have neglected all other races……that explains why they have lost so many state governor races as well as state legislatures and Congressional seats…..but not to fear we have a Democrat as president……lucky us.
The stupidity of the DNC is screaming for new leadership…..even with that it will take a decade or more before they can return to where they were in 2000……the Democrats have NO young leaders left…….all they have is old farts for leadership…..
The Democratic contest seems to have come down to Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, two candidates with an average age of 71. The Republicans, meanwhile, have three candidates in their 40s. The contrast has Mark Schmitt lamenting a “lost generation of Democrats” in the New York Times. Sure, there are exceptions—Martin O’Malley and, of course, President Obama—but by and large the Democratic party is devoid of national leaders in their 40s and 50s. “Step into any progressive organization in Washington or the states, and you’ll see the same phenomenon: leadership by baby boomers, an intense and passionate group of 20- and 30-somethings, and nobody else,” writes Schmitt. “The middle generation is largely missing.” So what’s going on? It helps to recall when this group—and Schmitt himself is a member—came of age.
The boomers grew up in tumultuous times, but “the formative experiences of older Generation Xers were in the quiescent Reagan years, when civic life offered neither the sense of affirmative mission of the civil rights era nor the intense protests and passions of the late 1960s,” writes Schmitt. What’s more, the Democratic party as a whole around this time was not “ideologically coherent” and thus not much of a focal point for the young. In time, younger Democrats now in their 20s and 30s will take leadership roles in national politics. “But the missing middle-aged Democrats remind us that the formative assumptions of each generation can cast a long shadow on the future.” Click for the full column.
This is what happens when they neglect one sector in favor of another…..
Yes, a Democrat as president is important but without a support system of state and national leaders….it means very little if anything.
Since office holders in the Congress figured out how to shift all blame for their lack of ability to govern in the early 1970s to the “bureaucracy” while at the same time giving over their lawmaking function (regulations) to the same bureaucracy – attention of all voters slowly but surely shifted to the Presidency only and less and less to local elections.
The expansion of televised and now cybernews that covers politics like horse races and focused on the President as well reinforces this. What generation around the world will discover this – maybe they already have and that’s why so many do not participate in elections but have convinced themselves that petitions and e-mails are all that count.
Feet on the street in protest and then in getting voters to polls is what still counts under current system – Ignore that and we get… fill in blank for what you think we get.
I agree….”take it to the streets”…..
Yes, a Democrat as president is important but without a support system of state and national leaders….it means very little if anything. —– As we have seen ever since 2008. Another administration that has meant little if anything except the further slide of America.
I cannot wait for the slide with a GOP pres……I think that you will be changing again…..this country is lost until we learn to act as Americans and not tribes within the borders…..we no longer give a shit about our neighbor and that is our downfall…
And the only thing that will change it is something that threatens everybody equally and I think ISIL can fill the bill on that score.
I think apathy will do more harm in the long run….
Apathy is hard to find when the swords are swinging and the bombs are falling.
Nope apathy will assure that we will dodge those swords and bombs….