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“Huh, we just can’t seem to connect with the yonges. Clearly it’s because we don’t use TikTok enough and don’t get their slang”
No, it’s because the platforms you keep running people on are totally divorced from the interests of the constituencies you want to mobilize, and party leadership continuously torpedoes policy that is actually popular. Communicating a platform perfectly, getting the message seen by every potential voter, won’t do a thing if they don’t want what you’re promising.
Not sidelining and running hit pieces against your most energizing grassroots candidates, then trying to substitute hand picked party insiders for them would be a good start. You can win elections or you can enforce party orthodoxy, not both.
Isn't that what he's referring to with this quote.
His entire point wasn't that older candidates aren't in on the latest tech trends. His point is that older candidates are out of touch with "the immediate struggles that folks are going through.”
I grew up very poor, and that helps me be able to sympathize with the struggles of folk under the boot of a rigged system. I was also able to fight my way out of poverty and I have not had to live with those struggles for decades. Just because I can sympathize doesn't mean that I truly understand. I'm out of touch. The same applies to old, establishment, politicians who are decades removed from the days they struggled to help their communities.
You don't need to be "connected directly to the immediate struggles" to understand polling, such as that a resounding number of Democrats and Independents condemned Israel's genocide in Palestine or that a resounding number of Democrats (idk about Independents) support abolishing ICE.
They are owned by Zionists, and they are owned by private prison oligarchs. It's not because they were too old to understand. It's because they're compromised by foreign agents and moneyed interests.
You're making Obama's point while pretending that he missed it.
One can understand someone's point and expand further on it.
You missed it entirely and are now covering for that.
I didn't miss anything. I wasn't the one who made the comment.