The democratic party *really* should present a younger person with less center-leaning policy goals and actually throw their weight behind them. Even if they are cynics trying to maintain status quo. The system we have has enough inertia to stop "falling completely in to socialism" or whatever the concern is and it would actually do something to rally people. Alas, who am I but someone random person who doesn't think that "but the other guy is *even worse than me so…*" is a sustainable pitch.