It’s tough being a Democrat…
Via NY Post:
Being a Democrat is hard. You know deep down in your bones that you’re a “forward-looking” and “inclusive” person, but then you look at the current field of candidates seeking your party’s presidential nomination in 2016 and see five boring white people with an average age of 65.
The Republican field, by contrast, is far more diverse.
It’s got two Hispanic senators, an African-American brain surgeon, a female former CEO, an Indian-American governor and a temperamentally-disabled businessman who, until recently, identified as a Democrat.
None is an avowed socialist like Bernie Sanders; he belongs to the “party of the future.”
Democratic supporters are venting their understandable chagrin — after all, their party is the one constantly preaching the value of diversity for diversity’s sake — by expunging a couple of white dudes even more ancient than Hillary Clinton.
For decades, Democrats have honored former Presidents Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson as their party’s intellectual founders.
State activists host annual “Jefferson-Jackson Day” dinners to raise money, hear from candidates and celebrate the ideals (equality, economic populism, etc.) commonly associated with the two leaders.
No more. State parties across the country are cutting ties with the dead presidents as part of a broad rebranding effort.