Our leaders want everyone to just accept their age but they cannot admit they are simply old.
The problem here is, obviously, ageism. Ageism on the part of those who would like these silver statesmen to step aside, perhaps, but also ageism among the elderly office-bearers themselves. The defenders of the gerontocracy who bemoan our culture’s obsession with youth are not wrong in their diagnosis of the problem; what they fail to see is how the desire to deny the passage of time haunts the hallways of Congress and the White House as well.
What else could White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre — responding to yet another query about Biden’s fitness for office — mean by,? In a world without ageism, couldn’t 80 just be 80, full stop? Maybe a rolling stop. No piece of legislation can keep the ravages of time at bay and the Senate cloakroom is not a fountain of youth. The only magic the Capitol holds is the illusion that time hasn’t passed; between their armies of aides, wealth and a collective state of denial, it is possible for elected officials to quash the infirmities and limitations that hobble the less fortunate. To leave that atmosphere would be to bring the reality of their age crashing down.
Now, considering the reality of growing old in America, for most Americans, one can hardly blame them for delaying the literally inevitable. As the boomers continue their march through history, the social services needed to support aging citizens have already been strained to the point of unraveling — hit by the
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