2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumLisaM
(28,564 posts)They obviously are very vital and I was especially surprised to learn that EW is 67 (I would have easily placed her 10 years or more younger), but that's a pretty old ticket.
Joe941
(2,848 posts)LisaM
(28,564 posts)I just don't see it as a balanced ticket. Anyway, Bernie Sanders isn't a Democrat again.
guillaumeb
(42,649 posts)Assuming you mean POTUS and VP in order of listing.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)and start worrying about tomorrow and Jan 20, 2017...
There may BE no 2020!!
Dream Girl
(5,111 posts)Are warren and Sanders going to come to the rescue and sprinkle magic fairy dust on everything? Do the mayhem and misery fought by the republicans and Trump. What about local and state elections.? Congress...2018. Sometimes the naïveté is simply astounding.
cilla4progress
(25,862 posts)I'll bite.
1) Looking for something hopeful and positive to look forward to. Not mutually exclusive with attention to present electoral politics.
2) Not said but implied if you have intuition is that these are the national leaders of the Dem party NOW, with statuture to head our ticket in 2020. They will lead our opposition on a federal level to trump NOW.
3) We are all essentially on the same side. I choose to try to be nice.
EL34x4
(2,003 posts)We need fresh faces, younger, with stamina and energy. After Trump, America will have likely soured on Baby Boomer leadership anyways. It's time to pass off the baton to a younger generation.
And this is where losing a thousand seats at the state level is going to bite us in the ass as the GOP fills their ranks with hungry, young lawmakers in their 20s and 30s who are now building the networks and campaign machines they'll use to pursue higher office.
cilla4progress
(25,862 posts)I shudder a little when I hear Schumer talk and make his lame puns. I hope Keith Ellison becomes DNC Chair.
Who do you see as the up and comers in the Dem party?
MoonRiver
(36,974 posts)We need people no older than 60 to run.
cilla4progress
(25,862 posts)I hear you, but...do you hear anyone but Bernie challenging our very economic system of capitalism? He successfully rallied millennials around his radical ideologies, specifically, socialism.
Think of Mandela, Gandhi ... it doesn't take youth alone to harness great change.
MoonRiver
(36,974 posts)Age DOES matter, and I say this as someone who is closer to 70 than 60.
cilla4progress
(25,862 posts)Interested in who you see on the horizon on the left!
MoonRiver
(36,974 posts)cilla4progress
(25,862 posts)all excellent and on my list as well!
MoonRiver
(36,974 posts)LexVegas
(6,549 posts)Persondem
(2,085 posts)pedantic lefties are not the answer.
I do want them to be involved in the national conversation pulling things leftward and shining lights on GOP lunacy (witness Sanders yesterday with Trump's medicare/SS tweet), but they are ill suited to winning a national election.
Besides, Democrats have a tough map in 2018; we need focus and energy on those races or we could be looking at another midterm disaster.