Here is David Hogg version of what took place at the DNC. Word for word his letter.

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65. It is a fork in the road, seniority versus energy, enthusiasm, and relevant ideas

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Not really any more complicated than that. The DNC, and the Party at large, values seniority over everything else. We live in a world where everything is changing quickly: demographics, technologies, world power, the nature of war (kinetic versus cyber, economic versus geographic, religious versus philosophical), power centers (nation-less tech tyrants versus well-defined nations).

A party of seniors who made their bones in the 1960s, 70s and 80s simply cannot compete. They barely understand what is happening, and the years have made them hopelessly assimilated into the corporate money, so they really can't change, even if they had any new ideas.

This is the end of the DNC. It has been dying for decades, but history will record this as one of its last gasps. Let's hope that people like Hogg can build something despite the hubris and irrelevance of the Party structure. Saving this democracy requires much more than a bunch of drunks getting together every 4 years and putting on ridiculous hats.