08-10-2019, 11:12 AM
I have dubbed the Silent the "supergerontocracy" - and maintain that it rules America as a whole, just like it rules the LDS/Mormon Church, whose president, Russell Nelson, is 94 years old, and whose predecessor, Boyd Packer, died at the age of 90 in 2015.
And the American supergerontocracy is kept in place by the Electoral College, a grossly malapportioned House of Representatives, where California has only 53 times as many seats as Wyoming even though it has 82 times Wyoming's population, lifetime felony disenfranchisement for even possession of small amounts of marijuana, the holding of elections on a workday, greatly reducing working-class turnout, and the tremendous advantage that Citizens United gives the wealthy.
Furthermore, the supergerontocracy's unwavering obsession with the Cold War, which is responsible for its support for the most extreme laissez-faire capitalism, and its denunciation of doing anything about health care or climate change as "communist" (the latter because Earth Day is Lenin's birthday) is dragging the whole political debate in this country to the lowest common denominator.
And the American supergerontocracy is kept in place by the Electoral College, a grossly malapportioned House of Representatives, where California has only 53 times as many seats as Wyoming even though it has 82 times Wyoming's population, lifetime felony disenfranchisement for even possession of small amounts of marijuana, the holding of elections on a workday, greatly reducing working-class turnout, and the tremendous advantage that Citizens United gives the wealthy.
Furthermore, the supergerontocracy's unwavering obsession with the Cold War, which is responsible for its support for the most extreme laissez-faire capitalism, and its denunciation of doing anything about health care or climate change as "communist" (the latter because Earth Day is Lenin's birthday) is dragging the whole political debate in this country to the lowest common denominator.
"These, and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation" - Justice David Brewer, Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, 1892