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It's mostly due to the connection of politicians and the older people in the businesses that they are in bed with, I mean, associate with. All the older people in the high-up positions teaming up and benefitting each other. The politicians get support to stay where they are; the businesses get the loop-holes and perks they lust for. Everyone else be damned.
We have all these ancient people with mental deficiencies in roles that stay in power due to name recognition, owed favors and the ability to crush upstarts.
I'm at the age where my parents, uncles, their friends etc. are 80ish and wow....just wow the cognition is just not there anymore in most of them.
Thank you for your personal attestation to the obvious biological/physical/mental decay with age. Does any of your senior relatives hold any powerful positions in the gov?
Thank you for your personal attestation to the obvious biological/physical/mental decay with age. Does any of your senior relatives hold any powerful positions in the gov?
Yes, all of them, I'm a Nigerian prince after all.
Many of these old politicians are just one step removed from Jeremy Bentham...he had a solution...per his wishes, his body was made good use of, it was on display at University College London and his head was placed between his feet. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bentham-projec...ordon%20Square.
We instituted lifetime appointments and our seniority system in Congress when people did not live as long so the current situation was not really foreseen. There is a place for institutional experience but having the same names in office for years smacks of feudalism or at least oligarchy. The continuing of 'first families' in office was most notable in the post-Civil War south and led to some fun stuff when seniority gave these southerners the chairs of some committees. I do believe that the seniority system led to many military bases being placed in the south and named after Confederate generals. Remember the backlash when folks tried to prevent Jesse Helms from leading a committee?
We have an aircraft carrier named after a segregationist who never served in the military. But he was in Congress from 1914 to 1965!
Finally, 38 posts in, someone mentioned the bolded.
I thought it would be in one of the first posts.
If I'd actually gotten to the end of the thread and someone hadn't mentioned that, I was going to add that.
People want their particular representatives to have as much clout as possible, and the seniority system favors longevity. That helps old codgers continue to get re-elected.
If Mitch McConnell steps down, Kentucky Republicans made sure years ago it won't be a Democrat who replaces him
Even if Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell steps down, his Senate seat would remain in Republican hands even though the state's governor is a Democrat.
That's because GOP legislators in his home state of Kentucky — with his backing — made it impossible for anyone but a Republican to replace him, over the objections of Gov. Andy Beshear.
On Wednesday, McConnell froze and stopped talking mid-sentence during a press conference, raising questions about the 81-year-old senator's health.
Why? What young person has the nuts to run for such a position? You get voted in and people go nuts. If you are a republican people not only go nuts, but they burn every city to the ground and then make things up about you and raid your home, etc. The leftist army is so strong. We are all doomed.
Why? Because the old politicians have the longest and most established relationships with the oligarchs.
All American politicians are puppets. And it’s good to be a puppet: plenty of cash to be had. They aren’t going to quit until the grim reaper is knocking at the door.
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