by Kitty Testa
Nancy Pelosi just can’t stop assuming that voters would not love Hillary Clinton for any reasons other than, well, stupid reasons.
Back in July, she asserted that Hillary was losing the white male vote because of “Guns, gays, and God.”
Now she is saying that Libertarian voters support Gary Johnson because of his…hair?
“Do you think most people who have said they’re going to be for the Libertarian because they like his hairstyle or whatever it is are going to stick with that?” Pelosi said at a briefing in her Capitol conference room.
Pelosi’s comments prove, once again, how parochial her views are about the electorate. Evidently she cannot conceive of how anyone would not support Hillary Clinton.
Yet Pelosi’s comments betray what may be the former House Speaker’s greatest fears: that the two-party system may not survive the next generation.
If you’re, say, between 18 and 35, and you’re looking at what Pelosi’s Baby Boomer generation has left for you, you might well start thinking that there has to be a better way. Yes, you’ve toyed with Sanders’ democratic socialism, but he didn’t stay true to his cause. In fact, he left in his wake a group of disaffected, broken-hearted millennials with no political home.
Pelosi slams the Libertarian Party, saying, that its platform “is to shut down public schools, eliminate clean air, clean water and every kind of protection in terms of regulation, dismantle Social Security, dismantle Medicare.”
Really? We want to eliminate clean air? I didn’t get that memo.
The Libertarian Party offers something the government duopoly can’t: freedom. Millennials are young and perhaps not as afraid of freedom as their parents and grandparents. Do they think that they’re going to get Social Security? Not a chance. Medicare? Healthcare is in a perpetual paradigm shift. Regulations? Did Pelosi not support the bank bailout of 2008 instead of letting the banks fall due to their ineptitude? How many years of their lives will be spent paying for the irresponsible policies of the past?
Pelosi is a figure of the old guard, a generation that is on its way out. She once fought The Establishment. She became The Establishment. Now it’s her turn to move over.
But don’t expect her to go gently into that good night.
