“There is an element of, at some point, you age out,” the former president said.
Former President Barack Obama is urging the Democratic Party to invest in younger candidates if it wants to come out victorious in the 2026 midterm elections and, eventually, the 2028 presidential election.
In an interview with YouTuber Brian Tyler Cohen that was published Saturday, the 64-year-old said part of the reason his own elections were so successful was because he was young at the time.
“I’m a pretty healthy 64, feel great, but the truth is, half of the references that my daughters make about social media, TikTok and such, I don’t know who they’re talking about,” he said. “There is an element of, at some point, you age out. You’re not connected directly to the immediate struggles that folks are going through.”
this might be Obama being a friend to AOC. Laying in the foundations for her rise in the party.
No, it is because the Democrats haven’t represented the working class in decades.
Huh, look at that.
I wonder if the people that attack Obama from the left but also buy into the ageism that seems to be all the rage now (I mean, surely it’s not a plot from the Epstein Class to have everyone infighting at the bottom level and not look up, right? Divvying people up even further by generations and microgenerations resulting in even more atomization than we have already creates lots and lots of solidarity, right? ) will have any epiphany here.
It is partly age, but is also the general establishment, I think that the party overall has become too set in their ways. They are playing a completely different game than the Republicans are, at the most of the Dem leadership is. They didn’t seem to understand that the GOP is playing for keeps, these plans have been in the works for decades and now that they are out in the open they seem caught unaware for some reason.
If I don’t trust you to drive, or to not click on stupid popups, then I don’t trust you to run an office-- let alone THE office that’s supposed to facilitate this country’s actions.
I don’t trust the current “administration” to run a side of the road fruit stand, let alone the country…
oldEntrenched
Serving their corporate masters
Playing power games to keep their jobs
Losing so the republicans win
“Old” is a symptom of being good at the above, not the actual problem.
The primary problem is that we have allowed our oligarchs to take control of our country. The oligarchs keep these older politicians around because they tend to serve them well, but it’s not really about age. It’s about the corruption. Follow the money. And the money flows from the oligarchs to the politicians who take that money and then serve the oligarchs.
Do we need to fix our broken democracy? Yes, yes we do. And the first step is to break out the guillotines and handle the oligarch problem. Then sweep out all of those corrupt politicians. There’s a few that I’d keep - I think folks like AOC are not taking that money. And maybe there’s a Republican or two who might be the same, but I sure don’t know of any, but if there are, fine, keep them if they don’t support fasicsm. But sweet everyone else out. Time for a new Constitution with more protections, although you can’t fully protect the people from themselves. But we need to make sure nobody can get rich enough to control the government. Make it so people can get rich, fine, just not SUPER rich. Roll out social safety nets - universal health care, univeral basic income. Protect our rights.
Can we do it? Well, maybe not. It’ll take a LOT. But that’s what we need to do, and the more of us that realize it and talk about it, the closer we get to any possibility of accomplishing it.
The oligarchs keep these older politicians around because they tend to serve them well, but it’s not really about age. It’s about the corruption.
Idk man, I agree corruption is the core issue, but from Dianne Feinstein to Joe Biden to Mitch McConnel to probably Donald Trump, I think it’s almost the opposite end of the “boy king” phenomenon. Boy kings could be controlled by their advisors because they were immature and unexperienced. Senile politicians can be controlled by their advisors (who are controlled by moneyed interests) because they aren’t fully lucid.
Bernie is old af and he seems to understand shit.
Too old? But didn’t you see Kamala Harris launched Project 6-7 or whatever the other day. She probably even smelled a jazz cigarette!
She started her campaign really late. It was basically half over when Biden got out of the race and she got started. By then, she couldn’t really get the forces moving. Dems really stumbled on the mid-game change out, and she couldn’t seperate herself from the stuttering (made him seem senile)—especially after working under it for 4 years. He should have stuck woth being one term and gone out to pasture with the rest of the ancients.
Thats all on top of her making the age-old mistake that all dems make: they start out appealing to the left, but then they run to the right. On such a short click, she had no discernible platform. The “I’m not Trump” platform was top notch, but it wasn’t enough to get people to show up at the poles.
The person you are replying to is talking about her current pandering that’s happened in the last month
It doesn’t help that the oligarchs control our media, so Republicans get pass after pass after pass, but Democrats get put under the microscope. (And it doesn’t help that our oligarchs have corrupted most politicians even on “both sides”, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t still a difference between the parties, just that we need to clean house on both sides…)
There were also the two obvious things that actually mattered to the outcome of that election that you just didn’t menton at all?
It’s AIPAC
And the consequences of Citizens United and the recent Supreme Court decision (Snyder v. United States) that legalized bribery even further.
Along with a host of other foreign and domestic donors paying our representatives to represent corporations and investment bankers and the like.
It certainly has nothing to do with the utter complacency of the party at large.
For longer than I’ve been alive, the dems have done little to stop what’s come. This was decades in the making.
Even if you don’t want to go that far back, the stuff in the Epstein files was known during Clinton and bush and Obama and Trump and Biden.
So yeah. On that one topic… both parties are literally the same.
The commonality is corruption by our oligarchs throwing money into politics to control most of our politicians.
There’s still a difference between the parties, but it’s our oligarchs that have corrupted and broken our democracy, and it won’t get better until we start with them.
I didn’t say there was no difference.
I said on the one topic of Epstein- neither party has done anything meaningful.
There’s still differences. Like one party has better hygiene.
Just too old, and just too sold.
Age has nothing to do with it, it’s their neoliberal politics. Gavin Newsom sounds exactly like Chuck Schumer.
Gavin newsome is only six years younger than Obama
Not to undermine your point just to make a joke or anything, but… “" sounds exactly like "” presents itself and you don’t choose “Shapiro sounds exactly like Obama” ? 🙃
Age has nothing to do with it imo
No, just neoliberal. I don’t care what age you are, but if you are neoliberal, capitalist trash then you can fuck off whatever your age, gender, skin tone, hair texture, sexuality, or favorite color.
They assume if the same old neoliberal politics are coming out of the mouth of a marginalized person it becomes palatable to the public.
