The Partisan Divide on Issues

[David Horn]

(11-29-2020, 06:52 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: I don't know who the younger House leaders are who are at least as progressive and competent at mobilizing action as Pelosi is. Invoking age alone does not describe what is happening, or the skill of the leaders. I don't know a young leader who can run for Pelosi's slot and win a broad mandate to lead the Party or be speaker. AOC will not be elected now, and I don't know if Ro Khanna can do it or is willing. Who else is there? Who will step up? A Gen Xer Democrat is more likely to be a spineless moderate...

Only if progressive Democrats win a Senate majority can they make DC and PR a state and thus end the Republican Senate dominance. Only then can they reduce or take down the filibuster and reform the court/add liberals. Until they can do this, thanks to the voters' decision, we are stuck in 1981. Maybe forever. In which case, the USA will not be the world's leader; China will be. The USA may decline or split apart, and there will be no hoped-for second turning. Only continued decline.

You're right on process but a bit off on the generational issue that's plaguing the Dems.  They need to click with youth, and they just don't. Sure, a Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren can pull it off, but even then, the Dems just look old.  The GOP may be just as bad, but youth are looking in that direction, and the few who are looking there are abnormal for their gens anyway.

I'm sorry,, buy Nancy Pelosi may be liberal but she's old acting, and then there's Steny Hoyer ...