America Is Now Ruled By A Generation That Is Older Than The Generation That Ruled The Soviet Union In Its Twilight Days

President-elect Joe Biden, speaks during a meeting with Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, right, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in Wilmington. AP

Nebojsa Malic, RT: America is now ruled by people older than the ‘gerontocracy’ of Soviet Union’s twilight days 

Joe Biden, set to be the oldest-ever US president, is actually on the younger side of people currently running the American political establishment, who show no sign of wanting to ever step aside for another generation. 

It is often overlooked that Donald Trump currently holds the distinction of being the oldest-ever US president, being 70 at the time of his inauguration. 

Biden will take that trophy as well if he’s inaugurated in January 2021, having turned 78 last month. 

Even so, he is actually younger than the current leaders of the House and the Senate! 

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WNU Editor: I was in my early twenties during the time of Brezhnev, Andropov, and Chernenko. I could not believe that these dinosaurs, especially in the case of Brezhnev and Chernenko who were suffering from the early signs of dementia, were the ones ruling the Soviet Union. But ruled they did, helped but a bureaucracy and Kremlin establishment dependent on the system to continue in order for them to prosper and benefit from it. And now .... 35 years later .... I am seeing the same thing happening but this time in the U.S.. 

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