PASS THE TORCH: JOE BIDEN AND BERNIE SANDERS SHOULD DO THE NEEDFUL NOW.

ICHEOKU says definitely agrees with Congressman from California Eric Swalwell that it is about time the two great grandfathers in the midst, Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders, make way and yield the stage for a younger generation of leaders to take over the mantle of leadership in the Democratic Party. Enough of the two elderly and frail septuagenarians, Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders, permanently playing the dog in the manger in the party's presidential nomination process. It is also very instructive that both men do not stand a  chance at taking on President Donald John Trump in a long drawn out election campaign, debate, talkless of winning the election against him. 

While Joe Biden has no energy left in his sinews, Bernie Sanders on the other hand, is just too angry to make his point and warm himself into the hearts and minds of sensible Americans. His only supporters are the freebies-looking pot smoking knuckleheads who are so delusional with unrealistic expectation, to have bought into his promised land of a Sugar Candy mountain where everything will be free. This two silver haired great grandfathers' stranglehold on the party's nomination process must be checkmated right now, otherwise how can any sane person expect the same people who midwifed the problems and dysfunction in the country to remedy it. 

So the Congressman from California was right that the Democratic Party cannot be a forward looking party if it continues to look to the past for leadership of the party, including in choosing its presidential nominees. He was also emphatic that it is about time the party turned the corner and embrace the next generation of emerging leaders which are abundant in the party  In his own words, the Congressman said:- 

"I was 6 years old when a presidential candidate came to the California Democratic Party's Convention in 1987 and said it is time to PASS THE TORCH to a new generation of Americans. That candidate was then Senator Joe Biden. Joe Biden was right then when he said it was time to pass the torch 32 years ago and that statement of Joe Biden is still right today. If we are going to solve the problem of automation, pass the torch; if we are going to solve the problem of climate change chaos, pass the torch; if we are going to solve the problem of students loan, pass the torch and if we are going to solve the problem of gun violence, pass the torch." 

ICHEOKU says it does not make sense that the same set of people, who technically midwifed and chaperoned all these problems and allowed them to fester and exacerbate for all these many several decades of their being in government, are now presenting themselves as the solution to the same problems which they helped create, because they are not. If they had solutions to these problems, these problems would have since disappeared; problems solved and these problems will not still be in existence today. But they created these problems and they are so embedded into the corruption that is Washington DC and are full bona fides of the swamp establishment and have no plans nor the fortitude and moral conviction to go up against themselves and their fully vested interest, which sustains these problems, by solving them. 

So, the Democratic Party must elect a new generation of leaders with a different mindset, who can put a new set of eyeballs on the problems, with a view towards once and for all solving them. But to expect Joe Biden or Bernie Sanders to be the solution the Democrats are looking for is akin to asking a bank robber to prosecute and preside over his case. It does not make sense; it never made sense and it will not make sense continuing on this leadership by old, tired and feeble elders who belong in Old Peoples Homes and Senior Citizens Homes, regardless of the protestations of ageism by Bernie Sanders. Both men's time in the sun have since passed and they must realize this and end their overtly optimistic but untenable run for the presidency of the United States of America. 

The Democratic Party must therefore wean itself off the entrenched mentality of leadership by institutionalized elders of the party and innovate to elevate by casting its lot with the upwardly mobile new generation of leaders, who are very abundant in the party. Such next generation leaders of the Democratic Party seeking to be embraced by the party include Kamara Harris, who was in primary school when Joe Biden was already a United States Senator in Washington DC; Pete Buttgieg, who was not even born when Joe Biden was first elected and sent to Washington DC in 1972; Eric Swalwell was also not born then either, but was a post Senator Joe Biden born child of 1980. So, speaking about emerging leaders of the party who were not even alive when Joe Biden was first elected as a Senator and Congresswoman from New York Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who was born in 1989 screams that she was still a mere dream then. 

ICHEOKU says totally and completely supports Congressman Eric Swalwell that Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders must pass the torch by withdrawing and ending their bid for the presidential nomination of the party. The two great grandfathers have nothing new to contribute to the party's growth and by extension, America except for their grey hair and whatever wisdom that might still be intact and not impacted by early stages of old age induced memory loss. Their glorious years have since past and with a setting sun, they are not the right fit for the party's nominee. ICHEOKU says heretofore calls on Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders to yield the leadership of the Democratic Party to the next generation of emerging leaders as leadership is not necessarily a Council of Elders-ONLY affairs.