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Democrats Are Pissed Another One of Their Own Has Died in Congress (newrepublic.com)

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Democratic members of Congress know they have an age problem—and it’s hurting them.

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[+] wesdym@mastodon.social -23 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

@finalarbiter

Almost anyone can run for office, including you. Why don't you?

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 2 points 32 minutes ago

Almost anyone can run for office, including you. Why don't you?

as Timothy Snyder pointed out there's any number of good leaders out there amongst us but they have no access to the massive $ needed

He touches on this in this talk, saying many Democrats just expect some natural born leader to rise and problem solved

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEaf1kgPCbY

He used Hungary's Magyars win to highlight the problem. He started campaigning 2 years before the election, going around to every rural village and town. Who can do that, take that much time off work, drum up that much support and $ ?

[–] halferect@lemmy.world 11 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Cool give me 300000 dollars and I'll be the next representative

[–] finalarbiter@piefed.social 27 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 33 minutes ago) (1 children)

Almost anyone [with the funding] can run for office

FTFY. I'm not independently wealthy and can't afford to quit my job and campaign for office, even locally. Nor am I interested in selling myself out to corporate interests to get the funding I would need.

It's easy to be holier-than-thou behind a keyboard, though. Why don't you run for office?

Edit: lmao, the keyboard warrior seems to have blocked me