Bernie Sanders is well loved, but also extremely old, and doesn’t seem to have passed the torch to the next generation of like minded politicians.
Well he has endorsed a lot of people over the years, actually went on tour after the 2024 election ended to get people across the USA more involved in politics at every level and vowing to support then in the midterms.
I follow him on YouTube and he does A LOT of rallies. They seem pretty cool, they always have some local musicians play a few songs before he goes on.
Why is he still in his seat when he’s well past retirement age? Why doesn’t he have a successor? He’s 84.
RBG was 87 when she died, and she held onto that position long enough to have a Republican appoint her replacement.
I like Bernie but I’m concerned why he hasn’t passed the touch.
I think the key is he’s in a local position. Point is no matter what, his “replacement” has to run and win. Point is, he helps good people win wherever they happen to be. For the most part senator isn’t an entry level job. Right now I’d say it’s fair to say Bernie is to my knowledge the best currently sitting senator, if I’m missing something blatant he’s at minimum top 5.
Senate isn’t exactly a position where you can pick an heir apparent, and for the most part people can only win with experience winning a mayorship, governor or house of representatives seat first.
I think the key is he’s in a local position
Sanders is a Senator. Are we defining Senators as local, now?
Senate isn’t exactly a position where you can pick an heir apparent
It’s a tough pill to swallow that our favorite guy should have stepped down at least a cycle ago due to his age. If a dude from his party is elected next, it’ll be really unfortunate.
Yes it would be great if there was a 40ish year old bright and scrappy contender for senate in vermont that bernies endorsement would make a shoe in… but to my knowledge there isn’t.
This is the problem. Why isn’t there?
TheFogan@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
I mean what would you call AOC, and Mandami, there’s no torch, Bernie is 1 of 100 senators. He’s never tried to sell himself as some special perfect person. Isn’t any time he endorses someone that passing the torch. He doesn’t have to step down to have an air apparent. I’m sure if someone with good ideas went to run in vermont he’d probably step down for it. but right now the game is national, and he’s playing it on a national level.
forkDestroyer@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
Young.
(Sorry. Had to.)
An 84 year old shouldn’t be in that position no matter how they outwardly appear. He’s doing a fine job but he could be doing a better job helping to build more "1 in 100"s to make a change.