• AbidanYre@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    That may be a factor, but most of the old farts in office have been there for decades. They weren’t 70+ years old when they first got elected.

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      6 months ago

      In the boomers case and older, even when they were young, they were easier to manipulate than the young people of the present. We not only know more now, everything we’ve learned is information literally at our fingertips on the internet.