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From 15th to 53rd in 40 years, and the median age of a Senator is now 65. It should be the top scandal every day that an elite gerontocracy established itself & then never left power as the wealth gap precipitously grew. The parasites obsessively cares about "freedom" except of its citizens.
1977: "By 1974 the average age of Politburo members reached 65... at the level of top decision making, higher ages have often been accepted, but this may be due largely to past accumulation of prestige and political acumen rather than continuing top level performance."
A Note on the Ageing of the Politburo
The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin (2015) By Steven Lee Myers.
President: 80
Possible 2024 GOP nominee: 75
Speaker of House: 81
House Majority Leader: 82
House Whip: 81
Supreme Court Justice: 83
Most influential Covid authority: 82
The 80+ Club:
- Pelosi = 83
- Maxine 'Mad Max' Waters = 84
- Bill Pascrell = 86 (D-NJ)
- Grace Napolitano = 86 (D-CA)
- Alcee Hastings = 84 (D-FL, died in office April 2021)
- Pat Roberts = 85 (R-KS, finally retired in 2021)
- Eddie Bernice Johnson = 87 (D-TX, finally retired in Jan 2023)
- Jim Inhofe = 88 (R-OK, retired in 2023)
- Richard Shelby = 89 (senator R-Alabama retired in 2023)
- Immortal Chuck Grassley = 89 (longest serving Republican in U.S. Senate history) That Iowa corn must be good stuff. On Sept 17th will enter the 90+ club.
- Don Young = 88 (R-Alaska, died in office last year, longest-serving Republican in congressional history)
- Danny K. Davis = 81 (D-Illinois)
- Jim Clyburn = 82 (D-South Carolina)
- Steny Hoyer = 83 (D-Maryland)
- Hal Rogers = 85 (R-Kentucky)
- Jim Risch = 80 (R-Idaho senator)
- Mitch McConnell = 81
- Bernie Sanders = 81
Meanwhile, the Prime Minister of Finland is 37 years old; youngest prime minister in Finland's history and literally young enough to be the grand daughter of this cohort.
First woman to hold the presidency, as well as the youngest president in the history of Slovakia, elected at the age of 45:
"It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong." – Thomas Sowell