10. Hillary Clinton's obvious corruption, Barack Obama's ineptitude and weakness, and Biden's bad judgment and creepiness are *selling points* for older Democrats. They hate ethical politicians. Ethical politicians embarrass and humiliate them.

— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) April 3, 2019

This is something I didn’t understand until I read Lance Mannion’s hooey on how Bernie Sanders was not corrupt enough to be a real politician, and how that was one of the reasons Mannion didn’t support him. Of course he didn’t say “corrupt,” he just said that Sanders hadn’t been forced to make moral compromises and to accept money from lobbyists, therefore he was not adequately-suborned by outside interests and thus could not govern.

Of course, that == corruption.

For the most part, Boomers do not want good politicians. They want the status quo, and that is achieved easily by compromised milquetoasts like Obama, and corrupt-to-the-core old yellow bellies like Biden.