(#6189) Our younger democrats are our future now!

      The republican party has gone batshit crazy and that is where we are now. Our democratic party has not allowed our brightest stars to emerge from the shadows of some of our older leaders. That is holding us back. Our older leaders are past due in many cases and are not thinking about how best to hold and expand our democracy. The old ways of nuance to create laws is dysfunctional, working to build consensus by watering down policies is a compromise too far! We need leaders who are bold and clever and we democrats have many of those who are not in position to implement their strategies.
     Our older democrats are not full of the zeal and vigor required to force strong ideas into being. We need people like Mamdani. Cortez, Beshear, Buttigieg, among many more who are young and talented enough to bring not only democrats out to vote but all those fence sitting independents that make up the largest voting block, 45% of our electorate. Those independents are largely made up of our younger voters. We need to let them define what our democracy will look like going forward as our older generation is not able to give them the fighting chance to realize their pursuit of happiness.
     What we older folks who have been fighting for what we could achieve with democracy, need to understand is that our younger generation is a brilliant collection of better intentions with the energy to make them come true. We the older need to let them run while being available to assist in any way they need. Not what we need but what the younger generations need. It is time for us who are not young anymore to get out of the way of our prodigies and let them master the difficult with the knowledge we have passed onto them and with their own insightful power to breathe life back into our democracy!