Reply #80: That's what I've been saying. We've till got 80+ year olds controlling things.

[SharonAnn]

Our state Senate leader is an obnoxious 80+ year old "conservative" Democrat. What's really frightening is that he's next in the line of succession if tour governor dies or resigns. And there's nobody groomed to replace him.

In our county, the chairman of our county commissioners, who sets all the agenda for county decisions, has been on the commission for 44 years. He's 80 years old.

I just started fighting back in my family against the 80+ year olds in the political arena. They're all right-wingers. I just told them it was time for them to step aside. I am now 60 and I'm going to have a voice. They're pretty angry with me but I've decided "to hell with them". I told them they'd been running things since I was born, and they were in their 20's, and it's time for them to step aside.

I don't know if we'd be any magic cure-all, but i can tell you that as long as people like Rupert Murdoch and Sumner Redstone are running the major media companies, we're not seeing any "new" voices.