• Suru@mander.xyz
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    8 days ago

    Wasn’t he a republican? And also a convicted felon.

    I don’t think he has anything to do with the old or new guard in the democratic party, it seems like you’re just trying to argue in bad faith.

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      8 days ago

      I am making the argument that just because someone is younger than the current politicians doesn’t meant they are better.

      • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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        8 days ago

        Could not agree more. It has become highly fashionable to start parroting a bunch of generational warfare nonsense.

        People like Charlie Kirk and the groypers are definitely not old people. People in the broverse are clearly trying to indoctrinate young men into a lot of patent nonsense, many of these “influencers” are not old people, either.

        People need to be judged on their merits, not the number of times they’ve been around the sun (beyond a certain threshold of being old enough to be running for office).

        • mister_flibble@sh.itjust.works
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          Tbf I think there’s a degree of correlation vs causation at play here. Career politicians who have been in office for literal decades are more likely to be out of touch with how the average person actually lives and newcomers are likely to skew younger.

          What we need is fresh blood. The age of the actual politicians is more just a natural consequence of that than the goal.