There have been a lot of posts about this but I didn’t know it was for 30 seconds until I watched NPR and they said that. But they didn’t show the whole thing. Instead they just showed a few seconds. I had to find another fucking video. Who wants NPR analysis? Show me the treat!
I cued it up to the freeze up.
These people already are replaced. Senators aren’t the ones running the United States. They’re just one set of people that makes up a small part of the ruling class. Mitch McConnell being old isn’t preventing the ruling class from functioning. There’s entire departments full of people from all sorts of age ranges who spend their waking hours making this entity continue to function.And I don’t know but I don’t feel like those people have lost confidence in this project. It’s easy to keep going when you make money. And the US has a lot of money thanks to what it does to the world.
You’re right, I’ve overstated the phenomenon.
Still feels kind of worrying. Like, if its happening in a big obvious televised job like ‘senator’, then I gotta wonder how pervasive it is. Like, what necessary clerical or administrative task is getting neglected because it’s out of the public eye and nobody is willing to tell someone to consider retirement?
