Are politicians really necessary? I speak here of politicians in a pejorative sense, as our current crop of self-important, special interest-courting, party-line hugging politicos exist these days. Notwithstanding our constant reference to our form of government as a democracy, anyone paying attention knows it is no longer true and, in fact, may never have been true. Lincoln’s oft-quoted line about government “of the people, by the people, for the people” sounded good, but has never actually been an accurate description of the manner in which the U.S. system has been operated. In today’s stark contrast between the haves and the have-nots, especially with a chief executive who pretends to be a man of the people but who is actually quite the opposite, Lincoln’s fine words sound naïve at best.
What this country needs is a GERONTOCRACY. A government run by old people would effectively eradicate many of the most obnoxious and corrupt aspects of our current system.
Old people selected to be representatives of their jurisdictions would not have specific terms of office. They would simply serve until death or debilitating illness incapacitates them. Constant preoccupation with fund raising and re-election would cease to be an issue. Lobbyists might even become extinct.
Old age is a condition which, because the elder has survived many decades of the onslaught that life throws one’s way, a respect for the human condition has naturally evolved over time that produces a degree of empathy and respect for others that is simply not present in most self-aggrandizing pols. Still, to serve in a representative capacity, because some older folks may not have learned these important traits, there must be a written and verbal examination that would expose and disqualify those unfit for office, and there must be a relatively simple recall procedure for outliers with inappropriate agendas.
Let the present crop of self-serving hypocrites go back to doing whatever it was they did before they got voted a place at the public trough. In a gerontocracy, with a minimum age qualification of sixty-five years to start, we’ll let our senior citizens apply their well-earned humane perspective to solving what ails our country.
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