Politicians on both sides of the aisle are getting older and everyone seems to love it. The now 78-year-old former President Trump has been elected as President yet again, the oldest presidential candidate to have ever run and won.

You probably just read that and justified this action by pointing out that President Biden is currently the oldest president to serve, which is completely correct. This is not a one-off incident for Democrats.

Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, a 35-year-old congresswoman from New York, ran for the top Democrat position in the House Oversight Committee and lost to Gerry Conolly, a 74-year-old democratic representative.

If you don’t know who that is, Connolly represents Virginia’s 11th district and was elected with a 33-point lead in the 2024 congressional election. He also kept a secret, he has Esophageal (throat) cancer which he revealed on his Instagram page on November 7th, two days after his election.

Knowing this, the Democratic party still favored him over the younger and more progressive Cortez. Why is that?

It's not just Democrats who are favoring older politicians. Trump was part of this pattern, but he was not the only Republican who is chronically gifted.

The most prominent Republican of age is Mitch McConnell, once the most powerful Republican Senator, who announced stepping down from his leadership position in the party in February 2024.

Aides to McConnell noted that his decision derived from his lapse in health, particularly an incident in which his face—and this is not a joke—froze during a conference and was escorted out.

Kay Granger, a Republican congresswoman since 1997, was recently found in a nursing home, a nursing home… never casting a vote in the house during this time. How long you may ask? Over 6 months, all paid by taxpayers as her continued salary. Over $87,000 all while never doing her job, representing her district of Texas.

What does this tell us about the current political situation? When a politician is unable to speak because they are old, we think it's normal. When a politician forgets names repeatedly, we think it's normal. When a politician is allowed to go missing for months and never cast a vote during one of the most critical times of legislation, we think it's normal. Or at least, no one cares enough to do anything about it.

Over the years, politics has been seen as a boring topic. That it's just old people debating and it doesn't matter to younger folk. What people fail to realize is that it's their lives that are being affected.

How much your salary is, how much you pay for medical care, where your tax money is spent, it's all decided by people who are too old to articulate their thoughts and won't live to see the world they create. The world that we at The Golden Progressive are so desperate to make better for younger, more apathetic generations.