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In reply to the discussion: AOC has something to say about her older House colleagues [View all]Tom Rinaldo
(22,913 posts)There are good reasons behind concepts like "a jury of one's peers" and "representative democracy". We care about the balance between male and female members of Congress. We care about wanting a Congress that looks more like America when it comes to race. We care about whether a majority of Congress members come from the upper middle class and above. We should care about age diversity also, because every group brings a differing perspective to the table.
I have been longing for the day when folks much younger than me seize the issue of climate change as an issue with the urgency of war and peace. The Vietnam war protests were fueled in major part by the fact that the cost of war fell heaviest on the young. The cost of climate change also will fall heaviest on the currently young.