Posted on 04/20/2023 4:52:18 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The new majority of radical Democrats allows the old fogies to bask in the limelight until they drop because these codgers mask their revolutionary intentions.
Joe Biden is now 80 years-old. He will be 82 when he campaigns for the 2024 presidency—and a clearly debilitated 86 should he be elected and fill out his second term. He has been in government for over a half-century.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and current representative from California is 83.
Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), the second-ranking Democratic House member behind Pelosi, was House majority leader until early this year. He is 83, and has been an elected official for nearly 60 years.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is 72, with 48 years in elected government.
Democratic luminary and former chairman of the Senate Judiciary and Intelligence Committees, Senator Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) is 89, and ailing—after 53 years as an elected official.
James Clyburn (D-S.C.) is House minority whip and 82.
These are the official faces of the Democratic Party.
They came into power and maturity three decades ago during the Clinton years of 1993-1999.
Decades ago, they sometimes supported strong national defense, secure borders, gas and oil development, fully funding the police, and a few restrictions on partial-birth abortions.
Not now.
Their role has changed from that of liberals of the Clinton era to serving as the thin power-holding veneer that masks the new real Democratic Party.
The party has been changed beyond recognition by Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), the so-called Squad, the Congressional Black Caucus, newly elected senators like the Georgia duo of Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock—and Antifa and Black Lives Matter.
Yet Biden and company are still familiar American faces.
Their final role is to acculturate the electorate to the new Democratic Party.
(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...
Imagine being ruled by The Squad.
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The Nazis had a failed artist as their leader along with other mediocre pseudo-intellectuals, backed up by thugs. What is happening now is a familiar pattern.
And the excuse for our Mitts and Mitches?
Yet Biden and company are still familiar American faces.
Their final role is to acculturate the electorate to the new Democratic Party.
Its radicals are breathing down their necks to get out of the way. Yet for a while longer they still need such an ossified veneer of respectability to ease the transition to what is now essentially a socialist-European green party.
The new majority of radical Democrats allows the old fogies to bask in the limelight until they drop—exempt from counter-revolutionary criticism or interparty primary challenges or demands to retire.
Prof Hanson nails it again. Worthy of your time to read.
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And they never seem to retire until they are on their deathbeds. What is up with that? I mean, I like my career well enough but I look forward to getting off the treadmill when I'm 65 or 70 and having at least a few good years for hobbies and such.
That's Feinstein, Biden, McConnell in the front row - Harry Reid and Bill Clinton invited guests back row - and is that George Soros back left?
I don't know, my eyes are getting weak.
“...newly elected senators like the Georgia duo of Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock” ... I’m in GA and I attribute the Dem swing largely to GA being #1 world-wide in film production. Started with “Deliverance” and hasn’t stopped and likely never will as GA provides all kinds of incentives/tax breaks, etc.
You must not be surrounded by sycophants, with endless fame and misbegotten fortune, at your current place of employment.
While pols grow old, stashing generational wealth in offshore tax havens apparently doesn’t.
Most definitely not!
At some point they will call in William Holden to write the screenplay, then schedule appointments with Mr. De Mille.
Everyone is hoping they get a chance of seeing Harrison Ford. LOL
Harrison Ford still handsome at 80 yo and rich as Croesus
https://parade.com/celebrities/harrison-ford-net-worth
The thing is, if those squad people were in total control they would just have conservatives slaughtered as their Muslim faith instructs them.
I’ll never understand why so many young adults think that the people who best represent “young America” are the octogenarian Dims.
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