03-18-2019, 11:40 AM
(03-17-2019, 05:22 PM)gabrielle 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 was born in 1972, therefore Core Gen X--and about as steretypically Gen X as you can get, having been a teenage hacker, a twenty-year-old punk rocker in a dress, and so on. However, there are indications that he may not quite be the advocate for the people that we really need right now. And I don't trust Tulsi Gabbard, she is too friendly with mass murderers. Tulsi was born in '81; she could go either way, as far as generation. Gen Y or "Xennial," I guess.
Pete Buttigieg (born in '82) has just met the donor requirements to be on the panel at the Democratic debates. I heard him speak a little on NPR a couple of weeks ago and he seemed pretty reasonable. We'll see. The primaries are still a long way off.
As I noted, Beto only needs to ATTRACT Millies, not be one. In any case, I don't think he has the legs for this run. On Tulsi and Mayor Pete, we're in agreement. Buttigieg may be the first actual Millie to sit behind the Resolute Desk, but not in 2021. So where are we? EW has policy that's doable, but I seriously doubt that she's the candidate this time. Bernie will be an ideological champion, but I don't see him running either. On the other hand, Biden can make a run of it, but he's not a likely candidate anymore than Bernie. So who then?
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.