‘The end of seniority’: Younger Democrats are challenging elders for powerful positions

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/younger-democrats-are-challenging-senior-members-committee-jobs-rcna183515

34 comments

  1. The democrats desperately need new leadership, preferably composed at least 50% of people born after 1975.

  3. Its about fucking time

    Nancy Pelosi gave up caring about normal people many moons ago, she is as guilty as many republicans for trading stocks and enriching herself and blocking progressive policies, she has run the show like her own little fiefdom for years

    We need REAL progress, real change- we need REALISTIC help for struggling families

    We will NEVER get it from the right and their billionaires

    Where else can normal people even look to for hope?

    It was supposed to be a REPRESENTATIVE democracy, but who the hell is actually representing normal people?

    Our only hope is the younger progressives, average age of US senate is like 65

  4. Has the DNC finally learned that neoliberalism is politically dead? Find out on the next episode of Dragon Ball Z.

  5. It’s a big club and all they care about is preserving power while increasing their wealth

  6. It is needed. We don’t need GOP-lite Dems anymore. Clinton was a great moderate Republican, but we can move on now, it isn’t a pathway to winning (general) elections. The fact that a bubnch of plutocrats and oligarchs captured the blue collar vote/mind share is an absolute indictment of incompetence.

  7. For the good of the country, the Pelosis, Schumers, Bidens, Clintons should just disappear into obscurity. They can all afford to retire and go away, so they should do it. They’ve been black eyes on the Democratic Party for decades and it’s been way overdue for new, untainted, blood.

  8. About time. Between RBG, and Biden, and Feinstein, the party has been repeatedly bitten in the ass by elderly politicians who don’t know when to step aside.

  9. Honestly, the only thing I care about is whether he/ she is truly progressive and uncorruptable (harder to speculate). We need a party that stands for its citizens and their health and well-being, including environmental protections. Half of the democratic officials (if not more) are part of the dem machine, which is more centrist if anything. We need a party of AOCs, Sanders, Justins, Walzes, etc.

  10. Its about time, both parties need to do it. I’m tires of seeing people well into retirement age controlling every aspect of our country.

  11. Geriatric center-right democrats: over my dead body!!

  12. This should have been done over the last 15 years. The Republicans took hits and losses at the Prsidential level in order to perform their national-level housecleaning. While it’s resulted in some pretty reprehensible individuals becoming influential in their party, the old heads are gone. It’s why Democrats have largely been fighting against the ghosts of the republican past.

  13. And those “younger“ democrats are approaching middle age (AOC is 35, not 19!)  That gives you an idea how geriatric the leadership is. 

  14. Seniority should end at 70 years old. After that, you decline as a leader, as all humans do in old age

  15. I think this is the positive of a second Trump win, it finally woke up the top part of the party that hey you’re not popular anymore. Sometimes a big loss leads to a big comeback.

  16. We should have started by not keeping Schumer as our leader in the Senate. Although I have no real issues with Chuck I do think it would have been better for the Democratic brand to just go with someone a couple decades younger like Jon Ossoff. But that would also help when it comes to elections maybe because we need to get new names in the mix.

  17. The very concept of seniority in politics should be removed.

    You are a public servant. You get paid a handsome salary and the absolute cream of the crop benefits package. If that isn’t enough, you belong in a different career.

    We want the best and brightest representatives in charge. Not the guy that has been there longer.

  19. The “next man up” shit has doomed them for the last 20 years.

  20. I believe there should be more of a concerted effort in bringing new leadership  into position. 

     If a political party is ‘an idea’ then they could do more to be dedicated to it and not holding that position for themselves indefinitely.  

    There’s plenty of ways those leaders could provide support and mentoring without holding onto the ‘slot/job’, and allowing’ like-minded and serious individuals to carry on.
    While bringing in new faces and generational input.

  21. Finally if this last election has taught us anything is that we need a revival of the Democratic Party with younger people in charge

  23. Steamroll them out. Fuck their “legacy.” Geriatric fucks

  26. Bernie and Medicare for All was a transformative winning message. The corporatist neoliberals don’t get it. It’s time to move the fuck on

  27. We needed this in 2016. The fact that it’s just starting now is a testament to how reluctant the DNC and establishment Dems have been to stop playing the role of Republican-lite and suckling on the teats of billionaires, while complaining about Republicans being beholden to billionaires.

    Seniority has its place in progression and hierarchy, but when shit is not working and the senior officials have proven to be ineffective in turning it around, it shouldn’t matter much at all.

  28. Older Dems are dinosaurs.

    At least older Republicans fall in line and not pull the party arevy direction.

    We need more aocs and a young guy with Bernies Spirit.

    We need someone like Gavin who will sling crap back at them and not take the high road.

  30. Good… more AOC types, less Jerry Nadlers, please.

  31. Their seniority means fuck all. Their policies are bad and no one wants to vote for them. Let them be seniors somewhere else.

  34. Dems keep doing the same thing over and over again and then they wonder why they lose very winnable elections.

    Chuck Schumer has been an ineffective leader in the Senate, yet he keeps getting put in charge of the Democrats there.

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