Good news.
And thank you for both talking with your rep and for posting this.
AOC’s tweet still sticks in my mind, however, no matter what one may believe about “warfare” in the U.S. legislature:
Succession: it’s not just a concept but a playing the long-game strategy.
Was so grateful to read Warren’s words. We need to recognize that the 2018 mean age of the U.S. House and Senate seat holder is 50.8 years years old (House) and 61.8 yo (Senate).
Age
The average age of Members of the 115th Congress is among the highest of any Congress in recent U.S. history.
Speaking as a person a bit older than that 50.8 years old mark, I argue that regardless of party, affiliation, origin, location, socio-economic status, gender, orientation, race and any other category one can reasonably mention, there’s this about us olds:
we are more likely to die sooner than younger people–assuming all things being equal–and thus the young will be the largest group dealing with all the problems of the world after we’re dead.
The beyond-cynical late stage capitalist profanity that Cult45 and McConnell&Co enable and impose on the American people, our neighbors, and Our One Planet, is non-stop pillaging, like some sandcrawler working the spice sands in Dune, until the last damn nanosecond to come up with any other strategy while busily extracting every last bit of value from humans, resources, etc.
Cult45 acts like it doesn’t have any skin in the game of How To Live on Earth Long Term, because… they fucking don’t. Surely religious End Timers are thrilled, having finally gotten someone who can help speed up the process:
So it comes as a relief to hear Dr. Warren call it like she sees it.
Let’s hear it for those young lightning rods.
Not just yes, but hell yes.
Deep bench indeed.
Make it so.
