The gerontocracy devours its children

[PRCD]

America's Unhealthy Gerontocracy - American Affairs Journal

America in its present state of decline increasingly resembles the late Soviet Union, but one of the most unsettling parallels is its unmistakable slide into gerontocracy. From Trump to Biden to Sanders to Pelosi to most of the Senate, one might think that the biblical three score and ten had...

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America in its present state of decline increasingly resembles the late Soviet Union, but one of the most unsettling parallels is its unmistakable slide into gerontocracy. From Trump to Biden to Sanders to Pelosi to most of the Senate, one might think that the biblical three score and ten had become a mandatory minimum for holding office in this country. By 2024, for twenty-four of the previous thirty-two years, America will have been led by people born in or before 1946.

While gerontocracy is most obvious in politics, it is present throughout American life. The average ages of university professors and administrators, banking executives and corporate CEOs, and many other leading figures have all been steadily rising for some time. Perhaps Silicon Valley has been so successful precisely because it is the only place in America where people who are not on the cusp of senility can get promoted or raise capital. Conversely, perhaps the pharma lobby is so successful because it is not only the biggest donor but probably the largest vendor to the assisted living facility that is Congress.

The fragility of this gerontocracy has been ruthlessly exposed by the Covid-19 epidemic. The crisis has also shown the damage that can be caused by a ruling class more qualified to be in long-term care than to hold important and intensely demanding positions.

 

[Lance Mannion]

Elephant In Room Warning!

20 some paragraphs without mentioning the utterly, completely and stupendously obvious.

More Babies are better than less Babies.

 

[Kento]

 

[PRCD]

bump with the important paragraph:

The Gerontocracy Devours Its Children
One of the most amazing aspects of the global response to the coronavirus has been the total refusal to classify and treat populations according to age-related risk. Although Covid-19 can be quite deadly among older populations, it is well established at this point that it poses a fairly minor risk for people under fifty. For those under thirty, the risks associated with lockdowns—increased domestic abuse, suicide, depression, drug abuse, economic hardship—are almost certainly worse than the disease itself. There are of course exceptions (e.g., young people with compromised immune systems, old people who have already had the virus), but these are easily accounted for. Yet the gerontocrats who set policy are apparently unable to even consider these factors.

Now we can add, "For those under thirty, the risks associated with vaccinations - myocarditis, pericarditis, etc - are almost certainly worse than the disease itself."

 

[hal9000]

And falling birth rates.

Immigration is the answer.

 

[GDaddy]

Not murdering 600,000 unborn humans is another answer.

 

[Autoprax]

I am going to have such Schendefrued when the next virus comes along and kill children.

 

[hal9000]

Not murdering 600,000 unborn humans is another answer.

get out those red dresses and white bonnets

 

[Autoprax]

This is what they do at today's public schools

 

[Duffy LaCoronilla]

Although Covid-19 can be quite deadly among older populations…

It’s not even that deadly for the elderly.

 

[Your Moms Dildo]

It’s not even that deadly for the elderly.

Not deadly enough.

My in laws are still totally alive and taking up space.

 

[afoaf]

Not murdering 600,000 unborn humans is another answer.

also a weirdo anti-abortion dude....ahahahahahaha

the fatherless children hand wringers really can't keep it straight, can they?

 

[Ifallalot]

also a weirdo anti-abortion dude....ahahahahahaha

the fatherless children hand wringers really can't keep it straight, can they?

Not nearly as weird as a father who is pro-abortion

 

[afoaf]

I'd love to hear how you justify the state's right to interfere with a woman's personal health decisions while also holding that single-parent homes are the bane of our society and railing against social programs funded by taxes

 

[Autoprax]

Haven't abortion numbers been declining?

These dummies always want to fix stuff that aint broke.

 

[Autoprax]

I'd love to hear how you justify the state's right to interfere with a woman's personal health decisions while also holding that single-parent homes are the bane of our society and railing against social programs funded by taxes

One of the side effects of motivated reasoning is that it allows you to avoid cognitive dissonance.

There are other benefits for the motivated reasoner.

There is a method to the madness.

 

[PRCD]

Not nearly as weird as a father who is pro-abortion

Male support for abortion is due to the fact that they want consequence-free fornication. If the man doesn't want the baby, he tells the woman to abort or he's leaving. Sure, she can get the government to dock his pay but it's hard.

 

[afoaf]

Male support for abortion is due to the fact that they want consequence-free fornication. If the man doesn't want the baby, he tells the woman to abort or he's leaving. Sure, she can get the government to dock his pay but it's hard.

lol uses the word "fornication" with zero point zero irony....more bible nonsense

it's actually quite easy to get a lien against a parent's pay

 

[GDaddy]

If equal was equal and it's all about the freedom and the lifestyle choices and then the baby daddy should also have the right to kill his human unborn prior to birth.

That would wreak havoc on chick-world.

 

[Autoprax]

I love how having access to an obortion gets conflated with all kinds of other crazy sh!t.

Most chicks don't want to kill their fetuses.

When they do, there is a good reason for it.