The dead gerontocracy hand is also a symptom of ideological malaise.
Theoretically, the Democratic Party is a political organization aimed at gaining power and implementing the agenda. In practice, the Democrats are more like a hospice if not a funeral house. Immediately a large number of party leaders are so old and powerless that there are deaths. This is most sad about the last standard party carrier, former President Joe Biden. A Latest disputes in the media In the new book, which claims that the internal circle of Biden covered his infant It suffers from an aggressive form of prostate cancer.
On Wednesday, a representative of the Democratic Gera Connoli Malaanka in the debate about the gerontocracy of his party, when in December 2024 he won the much younger Alexandria Okasi-Cartes to become the main democrat on the House Supervision Committeedied of river At the age of 74. Connoli cancer was announced last November. His victory over the AOC-almost four decades of his junior, without life-threatening diseases, and one of the most television-selected officials in modern politics, was a dramatic illustration of how the Democrats appreciate the experience over all other opinions. The short stay of the horse as a Democrat engaged in the rating on the supervision committee ended sharply in April after his cancer prevented him from doing this work. Unfortunately, instead of becoming a career, Konali’s time passed in this post transferred to a growing list of American public figures who did not know when to get out. Joe Biden, the late Senator Diana Feinstein and the late Supreme Court of Ruth Boder-Hansburg, also includes this hall of Hanar.
In a message political analyst Lakshya Jane listed some strange facts Showing how sharply elected Democrats are rolling to the elderly:
Three of the 215 Democrats of the House of Representatives were killed this year, all of the states who won (TX/AZ) or has a republican governor (TX/VA). Six Democrats of Daulty have been killed since April 2024. The last eight members of the Daulty who died in the post were Democrats, returning until 2022.
I think the question here is whether we understand that this is just not accidentally the result of the decisions that are made about work experience and launch on the re-election.
Last point: 11 of the 14 members of the House more than 80 are Democrats.
In Congress, where Republicans have only subtle power for power, every vote is considered. On Thursday, Congress passed a bill on reconciliation by voting 215-214, and two Republicans smashed. Like Branka Marchth Jobin emphasize“Three Democrats, which would make a unprofitable vote 214-217, were killed this year. Thus, the budget Democrats warned that the catastrophe would certainly go directly because of their persistence that they remain in Congress.”
Jane is right to insist that the Democratic Genetocracy is the result of the choice, not just the coincidence. While both Republicans and Democrats have elderly members, in particular, Democrats increase their work experience to the governing principle, which means that the party leadership is outdated.
In December, Politics – noted That this dynamics remained on the spot even after the election of Donald Trump, which was supposed to cause a serious shock in the party, but actually left the status quo to a large extent unchanged. Politics Notes:
It is said that even after the breakdown of three 70 from the places of rating places in the commissions-Reps. Raoul Gryalva (D-ariz.), David Scott (D-GA) and Nadler Democrats in 10 different Committees of the next Congress will be over 70 years old. Two of them are-eight, including the 86-year-old representative Maxim Waters (D-Calif), who will participate in the member of the Financial Services Committee.
GOP’s chairmen will be against the GOP home to prevent spring chickens. But Republicans will have half the number of 70-year-old children who serve in the first place. Two GOP chairmen will be more than 25 years younger than a democratic colleague in the committee. In part, this is the function of the term imposed by the heads of the Hop House Committees. Democrats, on the contrary, are undergoing an experience as a basis for power.
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Their internship dedication makes it clear that gerontocracy is just a symptom of a deeper question: Democrats do not have the guidelines and principles that keep them together. The party is a heterogeneous coalition of the central and progressives that failed to determine the main goal. Even anti-tapeism, which served as an effective glue for a faction party, is no longer effective from 2016 to 2024. Trump’s victory over Biden has demoralized the party, and some leading figures in the purple states are too eager to stay on the good side of Mag.
It is harder to believe what the Democrats believe in, as collectivity. This explains why the party still remains unpopular, although Trump himself is also popular.
On Tuesday, Sweater report“Democrats in Congress – and the national brand of their party – to uphold smoothing: About 37 percent of voters are favorably viewed by a party, and about 60 percent view them unfavorable, according to data Yougov’s Tracking polls. “
Not having a cohesive ideology of the party, every democratic legislator is essentially a resolution of a military commander over a small eye. For the warriors, the game must hold power over the acute until you die. If the Democrats had some greater vision of social good, then it would be expected that politicians donate their careers for this purpose. Unfortunately, the only common vision is careerism.
Earlier this month, David Hog, a controversial vice -chairman of the Democratic National Committee, shocked anger, continuing to continue Real -time with Bill Mahem And saying, “There were several members who said,” When I retire, it is effective “… overcome yourself. It’s not about you.” Not surprisingly, DNC is now trying to remove Hogg. As my Nation Colleague Chris Leman Complain correctlyThis impetus against Hoga claims (at least in public) only on the procedural signs without any effort to interact with the main points that Hogg has made about a party that requires replacement of executives who lack energy.
In his comments on In real timeHogg hinted at James Cliburo’s comment representative, 84 years old, done when asked by The Wall Street Journal About retirement: “What do you want – I gave up my life?” Last week, when asked about this comment, Klibourne denied that if he did it, but then expressed the same moods in an even more extreme form: “Do you want me to commit suicide?” Politics is a big divisor; Infant and death are great devices. At the human level, it is possible to have empathy to Biden, Konali and Klibourna: it is difficult for anyone to do anything from us, in our flesh, withstand proof of reduction and rapid death. But this sympathy for the general human difficult situation, for the King of Lyra, who lives in all our souls, should not dazzle us to political reality. In democracy, politicians exist for public service; The public does not exist to serve politicians. This is a sign of a democratic decline when politicians live and die as warlords, clinging to every last ounce of power. Democrats must determine what they act as a party so that their elected officials can become real civil servants again, not by ordinary warlords.
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