Is the sound of the Democratic Party panicking in advance of the mid-term elections. After years of doing their best to cast Donald Trump in the role of evil incarnate and all conservatives as his demon servants, the DNC faces a crisis of epic proportions. The young voters they enticed into the party two years ago, those who swallowed the pill offered by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her ilk, are now disenchanted with the People’s Party. Pelosi, Schumer and company are running out of smoke and mirrors to keep these young voters engaged. Add in the outstandingly abysmal job stumbling and fumbling Joe Biden has done and, well, the DNC is finding it difficult to maintain the illusion that it is the “one true party”.

According to the New York Times, voters under 30 are “hungry for new blood and new ideas”. If this sounds familiar, it should. This is pretty much the same mantra AOC ran on. It’s most definitely the one she’s shouted time and again as she’s done her best to topple not only conservative office holders but those from her own party. The problem, at least for the Dems and these young voters looking for something different, is her schtick isn’t anything new. The Dems have talked about how we need to reshape America, create a new world order, atone for our past, etc., etc., etc., for years. That rhetoric will work for an election cycle or two before the voters they drew in with all their empty promises realize they are all talk and no benefit for anyone but themselves and their cronies.

A survey from The New York Times and Siena College found that just 1 percent of 18-to-29-year-olds strongly approve of the way Mr. Biden is handling his job. And 94 percent of Democrats under 30 said they wanted another candidate to run two years from now.

These are the same young voters who helped put Biden in the Oval Office. To have lost that much support in two years has to be a record. It should also send chills of fear down the spines of most of the Democrats sitting in Congress

These young voters supported Biden and his “build back better”. What they got was a president who needs crib sheets to get through a press conference stacked in his favor. They got inflation that doesn’t look like it will ease any time soon.

According to the Times, prices are “rising at the fastest rate in four decades.” And what do the Dems have to inspire these young voters who no longer feel the party is listening to them or working in their best interests?

You get AOC who has no problem encouraging protesters to heckle Supreme Court justices while they are out to dinner but how wastes no time in calling Capitol police on someone who dares heckle her.

You get a “lawyer in sneakers” trying to take down Jerry Nadler in New York.

You get #twerkforjustice out of Rhode Island.

Rhode Island State Senator Tiara Mack (D) made this video encouraging people to vote for her. She also sponsored a bill for teaching kids “queer inclusive, pleasure-based sex ed” pic.twitter.com/835n4jS8LS

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 5, 2022

And I thought watching video after video of Beto O’Rourke on his skateboard while campaigning was bad.

What you don’t have is a strong candidate to step up and challenge Biden for the Democratic nomination. Could Vice-President Kamala Harris do it? She might want to but what sort of record has she established since the election. She was supposed to be the Administration’s point for the border problem. We know how that’s gone. She’s gotten more press for laughing inappropriately than she has for actually doing anything.

And the young voters continue to wait for Biden to fulfill his campaign promises.

But that doesn’t mean Republicans can become overconfident. The same concerns the young voters have about the age of Democratic politicians apply to the Republican Party. Donald Trump is 76. Mitch McConnell is 80. Senate Minority Whip, John Thune, is 61, a relative baby. Kevin McCarthy, House Minority Leader, is 55. The House Minority Whip, Steve Scalise, is in his mid-50s. The Republican leadership is closer in age to the disenchanted younger voters but still part of the generational gap they complain about.

Like most Americans, these young voters are worried about the issues. They want more than promises. They want action. They bought into the “build it back better” because they faced huge college debt, saw little chance to buy a home while they were still young and more. None of these are new concerns. But the Dems played them up, tugging on the heart strings and promising a lot for little to nothing.

If we want these young voters to step up and help correct the damage done by Biden and company to our nation, we need candidates who have a plan in place that not only makes sense but that they will actually implement. We need to move away from government by executive order. Haven’t we all had enough of presidents who rule by the pen and not by following the Constitution? Haven’t we had enough of empty promises?

This is the time to put forward candidates these young voters can believe in. Candidates who recognize their job is to represent the best interests of their constituents and of this country, not of themselves.

“Literally, if anyone else other than Biden was running I would be more comfortable,” he [a young Republican] said. “I just like  the idea of having someone in power who can project their vision and goals effectively.”

That is a good place to start. We need candidates who can “project their vision and goals effectively.” They need to be able to explain how to attain those goals and where the money will come from. In other words, we need competence, something sadly lacking in too many instances in our nation’s capital.

The real question is if the Republican National Committee is listening.

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