#gerontocracy — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #gerontocracy, aggregated by home.social.
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Term AND AGE limits for every public office, for the love of any and everything sacred.
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The gerontocracy needs to end.
A racist, demented, nazi con, convicted felon and adjudicated rapist sits in the Oval Office, besmirching the Resolute Desk with his filled diapers, a heart pump keeping *it* alive, and *it* needs a WET NURSE.
Nothing about this is normal.
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DNC is rejecting progressive agenda, but wants my money
Hardest of passes.
I´d much rather donate or volunteer with the local progressive peeps.
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Those elected for office should NOT look like they need a nursing home, adult diapers and a walker, or a sarcophagus.
We MUST end the #gerontocracy and enable terms AND age limits for public office, EVERY public office.
If any idiot comes at me about "ageism" ::drooling chins:: remember, YOU already practice and support ageism, by excluding younger people from office.
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Older workers aren’t retiring. Should they be required to?
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Know Your Enemy Podcast: Gerontocracy in America - Dissent Magazine
https://dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/know-your-enemy-gerontocracy-in-america/
> Matt and Sam talk to Sam Moyn about his new book, Gerontocracy in America: How the Old Are Hoarding Power and Wealth—and What to Do About It.
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Compound problems. #Broligarchy layered on #Gerontocracy with an old demented cult-mob-boss-king-wannabe-messiah crushing American democracy. USA’s last breaths? Before fracturing?
A Yale professor says America is now an ‘oldigarchy’—and Boomers on LinkedIn are enraged
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/yale-professor-says-america-now-103000830.html -
How would we even know?
https://piefed.social/c/political_memes/p/2174868/how-would-we-even-know
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#Trump has a #TERRIFYING new #symptom #yt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTnNTL1013E
#gerontocracy :face_with_eyes_rolling:
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I am sure that all of the people who can't afford medical care (or can no longer afford #Obamacare because of Trump's tax cuts for the wealthy) are happy that Mitch McConnell is receiving excellent care.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/14/mitch-mcconnell-hospital
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Noah Berlatsky on yet another #SamuelMoyn book that fails to understand how power works in an unequal society.
"Moyn’s failure to engage with race and disability, and his refusal to assign Republican blame, make Gerontocracy in America feel divorced from our current moment and needs. It is not a book that will age well."
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/06/12/gerontocracy-in-america-samuel-moyn-review/
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"benign essential tremor". LOL.
https://open.substack.com/pub/kenklippenstein/p/why-is-susan-collins-shaking
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Ah, the riveting tale of *America's Geezer Mafia*! 🧓🇺🇸 Who knew the secret to solving a #gerontocracy was hidden behind a paywall? 🤑🔒 But don't worry, Harpers' new sign-in system is here to save the day! 🙄✨
https://harpers.org/archive/2026/05/the-old-guard-samuel-moyn-gerontocracy/ #HarpersSignIn #Paywall #Solutions #SecretSociety #HackerNews #ngated -
The Old Guard: Confronting America's Gerontocratic Crisis
https://harpers.org/archive/2026/05/the-old-guard-samuel-moyn-gerontocracy/
#HackerNews #OldGuard #Gerontocracy #AgingCrisis #PoliticalChange #FutureLeadership
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i just…
look: am 60 years old yet this composite photograph of McCartney, Jagger, Richards and Smith is still fucking weird.
Robert Smith, a baby baby boomer, is the baby in this picture.
the chokehold the WHITE silent generation and baby boomers have on YOUTH culture is absolutely surreal.
The Rolling Stones & Beatles were hip in an era that is long gone. they are now part of the #EpsteinClass #gerontocracy and we should stop pretending they aren’t social and cultural anachronisms.
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#trump keeping the never actually possible dreams of boomers possible at 80. #gerontocracy
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To borrow an apparently controversial word, this motherfucker is unfit.
#trump #uspol #billionaire #fascism #cleptocracy #gerontocracy
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Once again, there is no telling whether President Trump is actually losing it, or whether he is simply doubling down on his serial narcissism and blatant disregard for the truth. Either way, his allies risk propping up a leader whose poor cognition will eventually be on full display to everyone's embarrassment ... just like his predecessor, Joe Biden.
#DonaldTrump #AIslop #blasphemy #Christianity #dementia #gerontocracy #Jesus #narcissism #sacrilege #socialMedia
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@kottke/116403480925631181
American Democracy is exceptional*!
* being exceptional is not always good. Sometimes it’s really bad.
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One of the problems with #American pseudo-democracy is that it's a #gerontocracy - rule by the old. The average #Congresscritter is late-middle-age, and the average #Senator is dead. Young people are frustrated at their lack of voice.
#Canada isn't nearly as bad, but I fear it could trend in the same direction, so I've been thinking about solutions to the problem. I think I've got one that's better than the oft-floated fix of just imposing term limits on #elected office, because you'll probably still be first electing middle-aged people.
Instead, for each chamber, set a ceiling *average* age for members of that chamber. Maybe for the Canadian House of #Commons and the US House of #Representatives you want something like 40, while permitting the #Senate of each to be the "older, wiser house of sober second thought" by setting a number like 50.
Each day, the system automatically calculates the average age of members in that class, to account for birthdays etc. If birthday(s) suddenly push that average above the ceiling value, the oldest person in that class is automatically dismissed, leaving the position vacant to be filled by by-election / special election. Repeat until ceiling value achieved.
Here's the important bit: anyone turfed automatically this way does not receive a pension or other benefits; they're just gone. This gives them the incentive to resign before automatic expulsion; otherwise there's no reason for them to do so.
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I have to agree with Fox News unfortunately. Democrats hate their base. Republicans understand that they have to appeal to the racism of white voters.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/twisted-irony-democrats-risk-betraying-own-pet-issues-government-shutdown-gamble#deadparty
#coporatedemocrats
#whitesupremacy
#gerontocracy
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If you replace old Chuck Schumer with young Chuck Schumer you still have a Chuck Schumer. It's not the age, it's the politics.
I can't think of a better outcome for corporate #democrats than us all getting swept away in the #gerontocracy hype.
