Latino population is 18% according to census bureau. That would be 6/35 instead of 3. Perfect representaiton? Of course not. Big deal? To me, not really.
I do wish the democratic party had more of a youth pipeline. Pelosi, Biden, Warren, Sanders, etc are all very old. Hopefully we can see more like Mayor Pete, AOC, etc in the coming years. But it takes time to groom future leaders, so I honestly peg this more on the Democratic party of 10 or 20 years ago for not seeing this coming. When Pelosi took over the house in 06, she had Hoyer, Clyburn, Lewis, etc as her leadership and they were already pretty aged at the time, and since then, there seems to have been no grooming done for younger leaders to replace them. It's the same debate the party had when dems came back in power last year. Should Pelosi still be the one leading and what is the succession plan.
With all that said, I don't think its some sort of conspiracy or lack of embrace of the progressive wing. It's just the way it is. Hopefully they can start to sort out the problem.
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This individual is not affluent and more of a member of that shrinking middle class. It is likely the individual does not have a high paying job, is limited on benefits, and has to make due with those benefits provided by employer.
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