Gerontocracy:
- government or control (as of a nation or organization) by people who are old
- [etc, omitted] [Merriam-Webster]
Incidentally, when I was exploring for definitions, both Future Caucus and Teen Vogue had suspiciously similar wording for their introductory definitions of gerontocracy. I mention this not to imply plagiarism may have occurred, but because I recall an incident during the pandemic when Seattle was seeing a partitioning, temporary as it was, and the right decided to smear someone involved in that incident. When I searched on the fellow’s name, a series of right-wing sites appeared, using identical wording in the way Google displays such sample bites. It was maybe a half dozen sites, maybe more, the only exception being The Epoch Times, which had its own negative take on the person. It being a paywalled site at the time, and maybe now, I didn’t explore that particular article further.
Back to gerontocracy, this could be a coincidence, or perhaps Future Caucus and Teen Vogue are controlled by the same owner, who chooses to save money by minimizing what they pay to their starving writers, or both sites take content from the same source and republish under different names.
In any case, gerontocracy is noted in “The Public Fires Kristi Noem,” Ken Klippenstein:
Maybe that’s why Congress is seeing a record-shattering number of incumbent politicians who are not seeking reelection, while a strikingly high number of gubernatorial races are also up for grabs. The House of Representatives is on track to break a record, with some 32 Republicans and 21 Democrats not seeking re-election. The Senate is in a similar retreat, an effect not only of a tired and distrustful public that is sick of the status quo, but one precipitated by earlier clamoring for the gerontocracy to step away.
I’ve noticed the emergence of Senator Gallego (D-AZ) and candidate Graham Platner (D-ME), both youngsters, along with Dan Osborn (I-NE), who are all not in their seventies, nor even their sixties. They are part of a movement to remove the boomers from power, and the latter two are on the campaign trail, as I mention somewhere in this thread.
