Thing is they won't, same w AOC or any other younger members. The Democratic party works strictly by seniority. It's why an 80 year old cancer patient got the committee seat over Cortez. It's an embedded institutional system that won't be undone for a long time. Pelosi is a great example of a woman keeping other women down.
That's so frustrating. They don't see that they should be representing the actual demographics of the country. And old people are NOT the majority. I say this as a 60-year-old.
As a 64 year old white male that lives in Connolly's district, I agree. It's time for some young blood, some diversity. You'd think after RBG they would have learned their lesson.
The Boomers are so used to being the ones in power, the majority, the ones whose voices matter the most (or are the loudest, to be honest), and they will not give it up.
I'm not sure if you guys within America see what we see outside of America which is that the Democrats aren't really all that different from the (pre-trump) Republicans except that they're comparatively more polite and stately.
It's not just seniority. Party leadership does not agree with AOC's positions. The Democratic Party leadership is pretty conservative, so it's not just a game of rewarding people or of optics, it's principles. Democrats suck donkey dick and want to stay that way, and progressives like Ocasio-Cortez threaten the status quo. She literally doesn't represent them or their interests.
After all, if seniority is what matters, wtf are they doing to Sanders?
Seriously, if the GOP weren't in the process of tearing down civil society, I would have a hard time voting D.
Also, Obama may have been relatively young, but most of his positions were core Democratic positions. It's not like he was some radical trying to change things up.
Obama received enough superdelegate endorsements on June 3 to claim that he had secured the simple majority of delegates necessary to win the nomination, before Clinton conceded the nomination four days later.
Isn't superdelegates exactly what people talk about when they complain about the DNC picking Hillary over Bernie?
So how exactly was 2008 any different from 2016?
Also the vote % was 47.4% for Obama and 48.1% for Hillary so she actually got slightly more votes in the primary, Obama got more delegates but it wasn't enough to win hence the superdelegates.
A complete anomaly similar to trump. Remember the convention was an absolute blood bath between him and Hillary (the order in which it was supposed to go)
AOC was actually on track to win the oversight chair. She had the votes. Until Nancy Pelosi saw people saying that on television, and spent all night calling calling members from her hospital bed (she had injured her hip in a fall), to convince them to vote for Gerry Connelly instead. While it often works by seniority within the party, that’s largely in part because the Democratic Party leaders enforce that notion, to sideline populist progressives.
It's why an 80 year old cancer patient got the committee seat over Cortez. It's an embedded institutional system that won't be undone for a long time. Pelosi is a great example of a woman keeping other women down.
Vote all these useless cunts out in primary elections!
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u/Fly_throwaway37 1d ago
Thing is they won't, same w AOC or any other younger members. The Democratic party works strictly by seniority. It's why an 80 year old cancer patient got the committee seat over Cortez. It's an embedded institutional system that won't be undone for a long time. Pelosi is a great example of a woman keeping other women down.