Is the US now more a “gerontocracy” than democracy? The president and many key powerbrokers are in their 70s and 80s. Although half of the population is 40 or younger, only a fifth of Washington’s lawmakers are under 40. Legal scholar and author Samuel Moyn tells DW’s Hannah Hummel that the US is now a government being run by and for the elderly, at the expense of younger citizens. He argues the unfair system is a danger to democracy itself. And while the November midterm elections are expected to reshape Congress, Moyn says, it’s unlikely to make a dent in this disparity.
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Chapters:
00:00 Proof of life in the seat of power
01:23 Meet Samuel Moyn, ‘Gerontocracy in America’ author
02:38 80-year-olds representing a much younger nation
03:22 The unelected power of cognitive decline
04:00 Grim reaper is the swing voter
05:05 Growing wealth, power gap between young and old
06:30 Can younger voters turn the Titanic?
07:39 Younger leaders in the Old World
08:55 When the enfranchised classes ceded power
09:40 Moyn’s radical solution to generational power gap
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