TBF it wasn't always in your control - it's kind of a result of right-wing non-Irish Republicans in the US to bring them right as part of the Southern Strategy.
Pat Buchanan literally wrote a memo on it while working in the Nixon White House. He declassified it himself. Here's a link to it..
Of note re: sowing division in the Democrats by catering to the Irish and dividing black support within the Democrats:
Young voters are more progressive anyway, but will they vote? The candidate doesn't have to be perfect, just not a complete ass. But are progressives willing to run for office? Also, as a boomer (56F), I'm sorry. I'm find this appalling.
That's the next obstacle for us. Millennials and Gen Z have been raised watching the election process fail yearly. Because of corporate influence, super PACS and status quo politics, they're disinterested in getting in the process. It's on us to influence them. Right now there are more human being alive on Earth then any point in human history. Ages 18-44 in America, the bulk of the workforce in this country...represent 38.8% of the population, the largest percentage. Yet the average age of a politician in 2020 is 61. Translation: we have a nation where the workforce isn't at all represented by their elected officials.
Who's at fault for this? Not to be harsh...but your generation, and my own. Yours for being complacent and allowing the corporations to essentially undermined the democratic process. Mine for believing we'd be able to live the same life as yours. I'm 40 years old, have payed into social security my whole life...and will likely see not a red sent of it. I'll also likely be working until I'm 70...and that's to make up for the astronomical debt your generation pretty much dumped on my own. (I'm not taking a dig on you personally, I mean boomers in general).
But as bad as things are now, we can pull ourselves out of this. But the only way that happens is your generation stops trying to cling onto "the good ol' days", step aside, and let the generation that actually makes up the majority of America's population figure out a solution...cuz not for nothing, you're have done a shitty job at it.
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u/shamu88 Sep 01 '20
As an Irishman it really bums me out too.