Still-powerful Silents

[David Horn]

(03-17-2019, 04:14 PM)Marypoza Wrote:

(03-17-2019, 03:26 PM)David Horn Wrote:

(03-16-2019, 12:32 PM)Marypoza Wrote: -- some of my more political friends claim Beto's campaign is already DOA. And it's just been launched. I guess we'll see

Beto is the first true Millennial candidate, with all the warts that implies.  Like Trump, he plays the room.  He also plays the hive-vibe.  He'll be a lesson in how to do it in the future, or not.  I suspect he'll do well -- just not well enough to matter.

--  Beto's 46. He's an Xer. Tulsi, otoh, @ 38 or 39, she's a Millie

Beto's already made his 1st mistake: <LINK DELETED>

That ain't gonna fly with Millies, many of whom work crappy jobs with no health care. If they're working, that is. Or with us younger Boomers who wish the Govt would @ least lower the age 2 60, if not 0. Maybe even older Boomers & Silents, who, even tho they got Medicare, would like the lower Canadian drug prices. That leaves his fellow Xers & that's not a large enough voting block.
 
Unless Beto stops being his evasive self & comes up with something better, he's DOA. If Bernie taught these Millies anything it's to look @ the issues. They shouldn't be falling 4 another empty suit this time round

Beto doesn't have to be a Millie to have them in his camp, and they seem to be joining in droves.  Tulsi, on the other hand, is not gaining any friends anywhere, and may start to pull-down support for others in her camp.  If you read her stuff, she just wants to walk away from foreign involvement, which tends to create vacuums to be filled by others.  That's not a policy, even though the long-term goal is right.  On this, Colin Powell had it dead-on.  We broke it; we still own it.  How we get out of stupidity is still a work in progress, but creating another mess isn't it.

And saying that single payer may not be the right way to universal healthcare is posturing, not policy making.  If you say, "I'll travel in any lane that goes the right way" attracts more followers than saying, "This lane, and only this lane."  It may work.  It may not.  It's tactics in service to an unknown strategy … which is the REAL problem.