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So umm, what I honestly think that it is, is that we have not have had a party that has been investing in its own future. So, we have people who are constantly fundraising for their own re-election. The average age of a House Democrat right now is 65 years old. We are at the oldest point in American history. And not only are people just feverishly working on their own re-election for their second or sometimes third decade but there's no investment in future leadership.
Like we're putting all this money in state parties and those state parties aren't working on aggressively investing in young people running in state assembly seats, state house seats, so they can later go on to Congress. That's not happening. It's certainly on the Right but it hasn't been happening on the Left. And so for me, I think that what's happening is that you know a lot of these folks were in the political heyday in third wave 90's politics and they were campaigning and they were really kind of connected most to an electorate when they were fighting for these seats, when got these seats, when they campaigning for those when we had more of an America middle class. And so I think that politically, this like upper-middle class is probably more politically moderate but that upper-middle class doesn't exist anymore in America and thanks to the continued deregulation of Wall Street, thanks to the continued gutting of working and middle class people, we need stronger champions but I don't that they see exactly how rising income inequality has resulted in a very stark political reality and it has changed our political landscape.
But you know their heyday was in like the 90's when like you know kids had Furbies and soccer mom's had like two vans and stuff. That's not America anymore.
Nevertheless she's kinda right in a general sense because in some parts of the country it does seem like the America we know and love doesn’t exist anymore.
Massive demographic changes have been foisted upon the American people. And they’re changes that none of us ever voted for and most of us don’t like.
From Virginia to California we see stark examples, in some ways, the country has changed. Now much of this is related to both illegal, and in some cases, legal immigration that progressives love.
Remember the old Democrats, maybe some of them that was referring to. They used to think that borders mattered. But the new activists believe that enforcing immigration laws is essentially an ongoing human rights violation. Of course they want to abolish ICE and so forth. Well today we were reminded again why our law has to be enforced, borders strengthened and the wall built, loopholes closed and sanctuary city policies ended once and for all. Check out what happened courtesy of Philadelphia's refusal to cooperate with ICE detainers.
You can parse that # anyway you want but it's pretty clear what she is saying: legal and illegal immigration are altering the racial makeup of the United States to the point that the America we know and love doesn't exist anymore.
So umm, what I honestly think that it is, is that we have not have had a party that has been investing in its own future. So, we have people who are constantly fundraising for their own re-election. The average age of a House Democrat right now is 65 years old. We are at the oldest point in American history. And not only are people just feverishly working on their own re-election for their second or sometimes third decade but there's no investment in future leadership.
Build the wall, close the borders, demand full and total integration from all nonnatives, or we'll repeat the same mistakes of the indians.
But instances of corruption don't change the fact that older people are generally wiser not as controlled by their emotions as their younger counterparts.
The left perceives the right as wanting to stop everyone and make America white again.