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In reply to the discussion: I now believe Joe Biden will run for President in 2020. [View all]PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,926 posts)President in 2020. It's practicality. He's run before. He lost. He may well have made a wonderful President, but that time is gone.
And as fond of Liz Warren as I am, she's only a year younger than I am, and would be 71 in 2020. Even though she looks a couple of decades younger than, say, Hillary Clinton, who is only two years older than Warren, I don't think anyone over the age of 70 has any business being President. Vice President maybe. But only maybe.
What I find truly disturbing about so many of these conversations on DU is that younger candidates will get a brief nod, and then the crowd swings back to the same old same old. All of whom are old.
It's a huge problem in the Democratic Party leadership. Representatives and Senators who've been in office for decades are praised, but they are doing nothing, zero, nada, zilch, to bring along a younger generation. In case you haven't noticed, an important reason that Republicans have gained the power they have is that they've made an orchestrated effort for the past twenty years or so to bring younger candidates into the fold, groomed them, gotten them elected. Democrats? Not so much.
It also disturbs me greatly that one constant theme on DU pretty much since its inception, has been looking too far ahead to the next Presidential election. The mid terms are almost ignored, which is among the reasons Democrats have done so badly in them.
I wish there were a moratorium on speculating beyond the next election. Or that there'd be a new forum or group for those, and all speculation for future elections were to go there.
Administrators? How about it?