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So we now live in a gerontocracy.

Our entire leadership class is really, really old. And not only are they really old, they're not even good at their jobs. It's one thing to say that the old man on the mountain, well, you know, at least he's good at his job. but if he's bad at his job and he is borderline senile or he is already erratic and he's just growing more erratic with age, the question becomes why as a population do we keep nominating these people?

Why do we keep doing this?

I mean, there are a few reasons why it might be a reality that we keep putting up in positions of power really old people.

One could just be the power of inertia, that the person is in power. We just keep electing them because it's more comfortable to go with the devil we know than the devil that we don't. And that would be true for somebody like Joe Biden, who of course is a devil that we know since he was 31 years old, where he burst onto the American public scene when he ran for Senate at the age of 30 and he has now 80. So he's been in the public eye for half a century.

And so maybe the idea is, well, you know, we're comfortable with him.

We know him. We know everything there is to know about him. And sure he's a little senile, but that's better than that new guy down the block. What that really betrays is a lack of trust in the future of the United States. if the people that you keep nominating to high office are people who have been in the public eye for 50 years.

And the idea is that these are the people who are best poised to lead the country forward.

What you're really saying is, we don't know which direction the country is going. So we may as well just give it to this old guy who's basically dead. And this is true across our, I think that really is the rationale for why so many people seem comfortable with voting for people who are no longer with us. Joe Biden is clearly no longer

with us. Mitch McConnell is apparently no longer with us. Diane Feinstein is no longer with us.

It's not just, by the way, elderly people. It's also people who are just stand-ins for general

political parties. John Federman is clearly not with us. And he's sitting in the Senate of the United

States right now. That makes three senators out of 100 who literally do not have full brain function.

As just a matter of course.

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