…how did they account for them exactly?
Bolding mine.
Do you understand what the word “emblematic” means?
Because I said this:
This was never just about Feinstein. This is the thing you seem to be missing. If it was only this single issue then maybe it wouldn’t matter so much. But it isn’t just this.
By “successfully dealing with it” you mean they ignored it. And are only dealing with it now because some democrats spoke out.
I’ll give you the numbers again.
The median age in the Senate is 65.3.
There have only ever been eleven Black senators. Only five American Indian senators.
Only 25 out of 100 serving senators are women.
I’m not calling for a “bar on the elderly from office.”
I’m merely pointing out to you that this isn’t a representative group. That the senate is made up primarily of elderly white men, this has always been the case, and will continue to be the case unless the Democrats decide to change that.
As for Feinstein? From 2022.
It really comes down to what it is you want from your elected officials. If you just need a body who might vote the way you want it, then fine. But personally? I have higher expectations for the people I vote to represent me.
Don’t put the fucking burden back on me.
Feinstein is emblematic of the issue.
But she isn’t the fucking issue.
The issue is that the democrats are just “going with the flow.” The leadership simply isn’t there. If there was, then Feinstein wouldn’t have been sitting on the Judiciary committee in the first place.
Its emblematic in the same way as people had convinced themselves not to worry, roe vs wade is never getting overturned.
Its this belief that “everything is fine, we are doing fantastic” right up to the moment everything falls off a cliff.
Everything is not fine.