Request to retire the word "gerontocracy" because it is stupid and also because it doesn't refer to an actual pernicious phenomenon
Like you're complaining about Clyburn and Pelosi and yet, right over there, you have the fascist youth taking over the GOP
And, within the Democratic party, there's not a real correlation between age & ideology. You've got plenty of progressive older people in the House, as well as moderate younger people. Most older Democratic members of the Senate are more progressive than Kyrsten Sinema.
In Western Europe, Holocaust denial is on the rise & far right movements get quite a bit of support from the white youth. The situation was actually better when older people who remembered fascism made up a more substantial proportion of the electorate.
In the U.S., white millennials vote slightly more Democratic than their elders, but it's hardly a stunning difference. Meanwhile, the relatively younger white members of the GOP are increasingly more authoritarian & conspiratorial than their elders in the Democratic party
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