Rep. Nancy Pelosi is running for reelection
https://www.npr.org/2023/09/08/1198438410/nancy-pelosi-running-reelection
As a registered Democrat, and being closer to 70 than I am to 60, I say to 83-year-old Nancy Pelosi, “NO, a thousand times NO!”
This bid for reelection by Pelosi is pure egotistical hubris. Her announcement shows a lack of judgment that is, in itself, proof that she should retire at the end of this term. Dianne Feinstein should quit immediately, as should Mitch McConnell. For their own sake, as well as the nation’s. RBG should have quit the Supreme Court, but instead she died while seated on the bench, and look at how that turned out.
They’re all too frickin’ old for national public office, including Donald and Joe. The only concern I would have with Biden dropping out of the race is that would most likely make Kamala the candidate. Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer should throw her hat into the ring. Is that still an expression?
Take a look at this graph of United States births, highlighting the Baby Boom. It starts in 1946, the year Trump was born. I’ve never understood why it was supposed to have ended in 1964. My opinion is, the boom was over when the number of births matched ’46, which happened in ’61, when Obama was born.
There has never been a president who was born in the 1950’s, the Baby Boom decade, and at this point it’s almost a certainty there never will be. What we have now is Democratic and Republican leadership that is too old to continue leading to the end of the decade, but refusing to accept that. What’s keeping these politicians going is competition amongst themselves, fueled by their unremitting egos. Or perhaps it’s the simple fear of death.
Just as in families, where children must take over for their elderly parents, younger elected officials need to exert more pressure on senior politicians until they see the harm they are causing by refusing to retire.
By the way, the graph also shows why immigrants are the solution to keeping Social Security going in the long term.
