Bernie is a great guy but that’s an example proving the point I’m making. He’s saying the same things he’s said for decades. He’s not wrong about most things but his stance isn’t really evolving either. He’s pretty revolutionary for someone in his age bracket but if you look at his peers he’s pretty much the only one that you could say has a relatively modern view of politics, and even that is mostly because the US is so far behind the rest of the western world that his moderate positions seem more extreme by comparison. All the other old politicians saying the same things they’ve said for decades sound like living fossils, and that’s not going to get better if they start living longer, it’s going to get worse.
Bernie is a great guy but that’s an example proving the point I’m making. He’s saying the same things he’s said for decades. He’s not wrong about most things but his stance isn’t really evolving either. He’s pretty revolutionary for someone in his age bracket but if you look at his peers he’s pretty much the only one that you could say has a relatively modern view of politics, and even that is mostly because the US is so far behind the rest of the western world that his moderate positions seem more extreme by comparison. All the other old politicians saying the same things they’ve said for decades sound like living fossils, and that’s not going to get better if they start living longer, it’s going to get worse.