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You think most of the leadership in federal agencies are over 80 years old?
Michelle King has got to be in her mid-50s tops.
Also just googled it and Michelle King was born in 1958 making her 67 years old.
Source, please. I can't find a year of birth except for some sites that don't look particularly trustworthy, and they are putting her at 52 or 53.
Hyperbole but the average age of the senate is 64 years old.
The baby boomer and silent generation holds 294 seats in the US congress at about 55% of the Congress. The only reason the average is low is because of the bulk of 40 year old Republicans and the oldest members finally dying off. GEN X has been a larger swath of seats than they would care to admit.
While millennials make up 25% of the US population they just recently made up only 5% of congress.
The youngest members of the boomer generation where born just as Hawaii became the 50th state. Nearly half of Congress can remember as a kid when there was only 48 states.
The point is that people in power are incredibly out of touch with modern existence and have been disproportionately protecting their positions and keeping younger generations from coming in. Yes they might not literally all be as old as WW2 but some of them literally are.
To insinuate that younger generations have not grabbed for higher positions is disingenuous to the reality of the world.