A Democratic group aimed at recruiting and supporting younger candidates for political office announced its first slate of endorsements. Leaders We Deserve — a group founded by March For Our Lives …

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I mean, yeah, but it’s a good thing.

    We only fix this problem of overaged politicians by some generation “skipping their turn”.

    If Gen X doesn’t do it, then the problem stays around.

    I’d much rather have a competent future oriented government during my retirement than a bunch of (by that point) out of touch people because they waited for their turn.

    If “stepping aside” as a generation is what fixes, well, that’s what Gen X has been training for our whole lives. I don’t see why I shouldn’t vote for younger generations simply because I’m older than them.

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      1 year ago

      As an Xer I agree. I have been that way at work to. I avoid management like a plague and wish for younger folk. Like a lot of things if I was going to do that crap I should have been able to start younger. Honestly I don’t want to deal with the stuff that came out of the generation before, I hope the next gen has the energy for it.