Now that they have lost the election, Democrats must turn towards the one person with a record of competence and reform unmatched in their party. I am talking, of course, about the man who currently runs California, Jerry Brown.
The man who took California from broke and ungovernable, as it was said under Governor English as a second language, to leading the nation in job creation.
If Jerry Brown were 55, that accomplishment alone, in that giant state, would have Democrats hyping him for president. But they're not, because he's 78 and ageism is last acceptable prejudice in America, well, that and Asian drivers.
But mostly ageism, only in America is age more important than the fact that Jerry Brown took a broken state and fixed it. And he did it in his 70's. Oh gosh, call Ripley's, he must have been taking governing Viagra. It's easy to make an oldie's joke and that's fine. All of us should laugh at ourselves, but to seriously assume that just because Jerry Brown is 78; he can't be president. That is a terrible prejudice, and stupid; because age is always relative. Jane Fonda looks like she's 40 and Lorde looks like she's.......40. Diana Nyad was 64 when she swam from Cuba to Florida, Lindsey Lohan is 30 and can't even make it across the room. Tony Bennett is 90 and Lady Gaga was using him to seem relevant. Where do people go when they want to know about money? They go to 86-year-old Warren Buffet. And not to guild the lily, but the Rolling Stones are amazing and Justin Bieber sucks.
Age is relative and it's individual. Jerry Brown may be 78, but he runs 3 miles a day and does yoga. Whereas, the only exercise that Chris Christie gets is pumping the nacho cheese dispenser. A few years ago, CNN replaced Larry King with the man that disproved the idea that all British people are smart. Larry wasn't let go because he got worse at what he did. He does a web show now and is exactly the same, i.e better than almost everyone on television. He's not better in spite of being 83, he's better because he is 83. His job is to elicit information from a broad spectrum of people. He's in the seen it all business, so it's a nice asset that he's seen it all. Of course, Larry is not as beautiful as he once was, we all suffer from the corruption of the flesh. Eventually, the girl with the dragon tattoo becomes the old lady with the tattoo dragon. That's life, you're beautiful when you're young and wise when you're old. Only we don't get this, our culture is shallow we don't respect the elderly. We venerate the young and let them rule everything. How else do we explain the cultural moment enjoyed by the human buttocks? It's an ass, it's been around for centuries. Dogs aren't this fixated on it. Why are we treating it like a traveling art exposition? It's not Picasso in Paris, but half of our music and all of our dancing is just about worshipping, praising, and staring at the human ass. Millennials, my people, should be called Generation Ass. We are all hooked on crack, both kinds.
Okay, America is still a teenager of a country. That's why all the asses are big and all the movies are for kids. Whatever, that's fine, Millenials can have it all, except governing. 80 should not be too old to be president. Wisdom isn't something you can just google and governing is where we need wisdom. A concept that ancient cultures already know. Chinese people would no more disrespect their elders than use the left turn signal.
