The Meet the Press roundtable discusses how the Democratic Party should tackle the age issue to attract younger voters.
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You know 30 seconds of 'opinion' on a topic is not doing any good for anyone. I hate this format. The Chuck Todd could do so much better than this.
Age isn't the issue but their actions are the problem. Democrats spew this narrative every election season
Democrats really HATES You America.
Both parties have an age problem, older generations seem to not want to adjust to the times. They are holding back progress in the country and culture of America
Politics in general need to get younger.
Young people build civilizations.
Old people on average tend to conserve and keep things “like they were in the good old days”.
Keep remember the ages of the Founding Fathers.
George Washington was 44
Thomas Jefferson was 33
James Madison was 25
Alexander Hamilton was 21 !!
This whole nation does.
This nation will be so much better when the Boomers are gone.
The Democratic party can embrace the younger and more liberal (this is the word, "progressive" is puny word) elements, or it can keep running away from itself, it's future, and it's highly successful past. The only times in history that the Democratic party has done great things is when it's liberal elements were calling the shots. I'm in my 50's, am tired of watching this party flounder with uninspired and corrupt leadership. I'm all about getting people in there 40's and 50's into leadership roles. It's also the only thing that will keep this party from dying off.
4 main leaders of the democrat party are 79 years or older. Dementia ridden fools
LMAO-"How poor the republican senates are compared to the house senate." Therein lies your problem you think money is all that matters forgetting about the American people and what they want. Democrats are ruining our country right now, how long do you think it will take "THE PEOPLE" to forget?
Don't worry you will have young voters. I just don't think they will be the ones you want. There won't be a whole lot of common sense in the crowd. Perhaps that's what you are looking for though. Your policies are failing.
TERM LIMITS for Congress!!!
These Old, Senile Senators & Congressmen are destroying this country!
Age they have moral problems?
We need D.C. to be our government not a retirement community
VOTE UNDER 55
I disagree, with age comes intelligence, wisdom, strength and the ability to take on those devil's! Stop buying to in BS,…
Age does not always mean the person's mind is out of date, we learn with every new generation and apply that to the world!
The younger the better. I could vote with my iPhone.
Age discrimination is really not attractive. As an indigenous American my values are to listen to elders. It depends on the candidate.
No, no, no term limits! The problem is not age, at root. It is that seats in government – congress, legislatures, governorships and other state offices – all of them are not competitive enough! This is especially true of the abysmal primaries systems! The fact that there is so much power centered in the party system, and so much weight given by big money, that by the time a vote comes, everything is skewed to the status quo, and keeping the blood that is already there and paid for. And the final grand slam against the voter is the gerrymandering of district lines. It should not be done by legislatures, who are already dominated from elsewhere. It should be done by specially elected committee comprised of at least one member of every party who has, within the last four years, run a candidate for state office, plus another from every party that has had a state office candidate receive at least 10% of the vote, plus 8 seats from every party that has had a state office candidate receive at least 25% of the vote. Such a system would guarantee that all active parties have a voice, the biggest vote-getters get a major say, yet the committee would be balanced and even in weight regardless of overall current vote distributions – to promote competition.
Nothing like that will ever happen, you say? Likely enough. What does that say about how the current system has a lock-down on opportunity, and discussion of any idea? Bring some on! Let's hear them! What does the status quo indicate about the depth to which we the people should be rising against it? The vote-counting systems are dependable. It's the district lines and candidate selection that are not fine. It's the free-for-all money in the system that is not fine. It's the media domination of discussion that's not fine. Let's have term limits for party bosses: national committee personnel, same at state level, same locally, same for precinct captains, and all such frameworks jobs in the parties. How about no one person serves in any of those positions for longer than four years? How about no person retiring from such a position can serve in another such for two years?
There does need to be turnover. But it needs to be the voters' choice which people we send to office. It's not a good thing to being by restricting the options. We need to be able to vote to retain those who have served ably, and yet to readily make changes as conditions shift. We need to see young candidates, middle-aged, and older, for each generation has strengths to bring, and our populace is not all of one age. The current system is not providing opportunities that ought to be there, that the founders tried to encourage. And it is the major parties who have worked to obstruct just this kind of competition at every level and every stage, until we have an entire government that does not represent us.
Sorry, Democrats. Getting some younger candidates, only that much, is putting lipstick on the pig. There is need for much more change than that.
Lest anyone ask, I am over 70 years old.
Biden was too old before he finally arrived. They all need to limited by age. Other people are forced to retire at 65. These people, with enhanced benefits (are any of them deserved?) need to be treated by the same rules. Something the US is now grappling with, and FAILING
That is caused by lack of Term limits! And the GOP has a white male problem! Its a shame that one side is white men and the other side is blue haired. Oh well it is what it is!
CONGRESS has an age issue
But it's amazing that no matter how young the Republicans may be they still think like dinosaurs!
Really the whole system has this problem
Supreme Court for life, all day everyday lol
HAY ! IF SOMEONE GAVE ME 10 TUNS OF JELLY BEANS, I WOULD TELL THEM THAT'S ENOUGH, IF THEY CONTINUED, I SEND THE JELLY BEANS TO EVERYBODY!
The entire system has an age problem
It's not extreme to be against murdering
babies. It's not extreme to be against
mutilating kids' genitalia. It's not extreme
to believe in the right to self-defense. It's
not extreme to want a functioning,
impartial justice system. It's sane, normal,
and rational.