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Title: Governed by Geezers
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URL Source: https://www.takimag.com/article/governed-by-geezers/
Published: Mar 15, 2021
Author: The Z Man
Post Date: 2021-03-15 14:02:06 by Ada
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Views: 503
Comments: 6

Last Thursday, President Joe Biden was allowed out of his protective bubble to deliver a nationally televised address to the nation. This was big news in Washington, as Biden has been in hiding since taking office. Normally a new president spends his first few weeks in office making the rounds, chatting with the media, and doing what amounts to a victory lap around Washington. Biden has not done any of that.

Even though the American media is stuffed to the gills with toadies and rumpswabs, there is always the chance one of them accidentally asks him a real question. Worse yet, there is the chance he tries to answer. For a man in severe cognitive decline, even simple questions can lead to embarrassing moments. That is why it was big news that he was going to give a live speech to the nation.

The stated reason for the address was to inform the public about the party’s heroic effort to fight the Covid panic. The real reason, of course, was to prove that Biden was not already dead. He shuffled out to the podium like a sad old man in a nursing home and mumbled through a mostly incoherent speech. It was a good reminder that in his prime, Joe Biden was a glib dunce. Now he is no longer glib.

The absurdity of the performance was amusing, but it was also sad. This man should be at home playing with his grandchildren, whose names he never remembers. Instead, he is being forced to play President, while minions from the inner party push through the great reset. It is a disgusting and vulgar display that should never be allowed to happen, but it really does capture the state of the political class.

“The natural end of life is never a dignified thing. This is true whether it is the life of a man or the life of a nation.” Biden is not the only geezer shuffling around the halls of power. The Speaker of the House is an octogenarian, Nancy Pelosi, who, like Joe Biden, struggles to handle simple conversations with the media. A lifetime of day drinking has not helped. The Senate Majority Leader is a relative youngster at 70 years old. Mitch McConnell, the GOP leader, just turned 79 this past February.

America is a gerontocracy now. Look around the political space and it is geezers as far as the eye can see. According to the Congressional Research Service, the average age for House members is 58 years old and the average age for the Senate is 63 years old. The bureaucracy is also old. Since no one ever quits or gets fired, government workers stay until death. A third of them are senior citizens now. We are governed by geezers.

One reason the political class looks like a museum exhibit is the voters are a bunch of geezers too. Older people tend to vote in greater numbers than younger people, and we now have a lot of old people. The baby boomers are all in various stages of decrepitude now. The Woodstock Generation is in their late 60s, while the Disco Generation is late 50s. Boomers are the largest voting bloc by far.

Boomers, of course, were never going to age gracefully. The generation that gave us the youth culture cannot come to terms with being old. When they hit middle age, they convinced themselves that 40 was the new 25. When they hit their 50s, they got the little blue pill so they could pretend 50 was the new 30. Now that they are senior citizens, they vote for octogenarians, because 80 is the new 60.

Another reason America is now ruled by geezers is America stopped being a growth business a long time ago. When a business is small and growing, it draws in young ambitious people. Young people need an opportunity, and in a growing enterprise, there are chances to make a name for yourself. Great fortunes are made at the start of a boom and great names are made at the beginning of an empire.

Once the enterprise matures and stops growing, it begins to shed the young, creative, and ambitious. Those young whippersnappers with their new ideas and energy are a threat to the people in power, so they have to go. That is what happened with the American empire toward the end of the Cold War. The collapse of communism meant the end of history and the end of America’s growth phase.

The Soviet Union went through the same process. After the war, the man at the top was in his 60s, a senior man leading a young confident party. After Stalin and the reform efforts that came after him, the Soviet Union became a static, conservative state. It was no longer a growth enterprise promising to conquer the world. By the end, the party leadership looked a lot like the current American leadership.

Like the old Soviet Union, current-year America is now a highly conservative state, despite the proliferation of bizarre social fads. The range of acceptable discussion has narrowed to the limited number of things permitted by those geezers at the top of the system making the rules. Anything that questions their authority is forcefully denounced, because old people lack the confidence to defend themselves or their ideas.

The elephant in the room here is demographics. The gerontocracy is white and the voters that sustain them are white. White people are old. According to Pew Research, the typical age of a white person in America is 58 years old. The typical age of a Latino is 11 years old. The typical Asian is 29 years old. Overall, whites are twice the age of nonwhites, which is not going to change until the boomers die off.

Of course, when the boomers die off, that brings the gerontocracy to a close. The millions of brown people they imported to assuage their guilt will take over. That is what makes the Biden-Harris administration so perfect. Like Joe Biden, the boomers will stick around too long, stagger around in a fog at the end, then leave their descendants to the tender mercies of the nonwhites who will take over.

The natural end of life is never a dignified thing. This is true whether it is the life of a man or the life of a nation. That is what Joe Biden represents. His shuffling around the stage, struggling to remember his name, is a metaphor for the age. He represents the final undignified end of an aging political class sitting atop a dying empire. The only question now is whether he and what he represents go peacefully.

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#1. To: Ada (#0)

Like I said many years ago: over 180,000,000 legal registered voters and this is the best we can come up with>

Darkwing  posted on  2021-03-15   14:59:39 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Ada (#0) (Edited)

If Biden's Address was allegedly given at 2:40 PM (this guy say it's the 12th which was a Friday) the article says it was Thursday.

This video was supposed to be in real time ... I am not sure if the date the guy gave is correct or if the article is correct ! D.C. seems to be the twilight zone.

"And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. "

Every county that Trump won should be declared a Conservative American sanctuary county !

noone222  posted on  2021-03-15   15:20:18 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Ada (#0)

Governed by Geezers

That word Geezer reminded me of a band by the name of Wheezer who we worked at the Aragon Ballroom many years ago.

But one time there was a band by the name of Big Head Todd. The T-shirt vendor had this shirt with a girl on it. She was thinking, "Big Head. Hmmmm." LOL

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke

BTP Holdings  posted on  2021-03-16   21:51:27 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Darkwing (#1)

Like I said many years ago: over 180,000,000 legal registered voters and this is the best we can come up with>

24(+-) candidates in 2020 Dem primaries and they selected a fucking zombie!

“I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.” - William S Burroughs

Dakmar  posted on  2021-03-16   22:01:34 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: noone222 (#2)

So they're so paranoid they stage the address for later (fake live) broadcast. Just when you think it can't get any more FAKE..... it does, daily!

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USA! USA! USA! Bringing you democracy, or else! there were strains of VD that were incurable, and they were first found in the Philippines and then transmitted to the Korean working girls via US military. The 'incurables' we were told were first taken back to a military hospital in the Philippines to quietly die. – 4um

NeoconsNailed  posted on  2021-03-18   10:24:56 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Ada (#0)

What a brilliant article. Wonder who the author really is. And what a fun, graphic insult word for the collection -- 'rumpswab'. The definition is richly ironic

www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=rumpswab

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USA! USA! USA! Bringing you democracy, or else! there were strains of VD that were incurable, and they were first found in the Philippines and then transmitted to the Korean working girls via US military. The 'incurables' we were told were first taken back to a military hospital in the Philippines to quietly die. – 4um

NeoconsNailed  posted on  2021-03-18   10:32:22 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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