I am appalled at the ageist comments I am reading.

[radical noodle]

151. I'm just gobsmacked by some of the posts I've seen on this subject

Nancy Pelosi has given so much to the Democratic Party but after all the celebrations at DU concerning her accomplishments, she's suddenly being tossed aside as though she's a doddering fool... but for opposite reasons. I see complaints that she spoke to Biden about getting out of the presidential race after the debate (ostensibly because of his age) followed by complaints that she apparently demanded that everyone vote for Connelly over AOC because she was too young. Make that make sense. They had a vote, did they not? Did Nancy Pelosi literally rise from her hip replacement hospital bed and twist their arms to vote for Connelly because why... she likes old men? If there's anything that Pelosi is, she's politically savvy. She knows all the rules and how to work the House like no one else. She stepped aside for a new, younger House Speaker who is doing an amazing job. If she pushed for Connelly, then she had a good reason for it and it wasn't a desire to keep the party full of old people. Apparently, a majority agreed with her.

You'd be lucky to find many young voters who even know what a ranking member is, let alone who is the ranking member of any particular committee. AOC will have her day, as will all the younger members of the House and Senate, just as our (older) generation had to wait our turn. This idea that "old people" will ruin the party and turn away younger voters doesn't make sense to me. I believe the real issue is our party's communication with younger voters. AOC is great at that. So are many of the younger House members. There is plenty of work for everyone.

As others pointed out, younger people are not reliable voters. And explain why... if age is so important to them... that so many of them voted for trump... a guy who can barely string a sentence together. Biden won a lot of the youth vote, while Kamala who is younger, didn't do as well.