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Can you imagine your retired parents, even if they were good and smart and fit at 70-plus, circling the conestoga wagons and finding a solution to all this, when they're also in the crosshairs of the reaper's scythe (if this were a FPS, that scythe would have crosshairs)?
You can provide FDR and Woody Wilson as counterexamples, but those men basically dropped dead at the end of their national emergencies and one of them wasn't even all there for the last few years of his. And they were younger than this crop of leaders!
Say what you will about the powdered-wig generation of American founders, but at least some of them were young enough to be out front with the grunts rather than in the rear evading taxes by smuggling the gear. And Trump, aged and either overweight or obese, flaunts his mortality
And the lack of a bench is basically the fault of...pretty much all of those people you mention, because they systematically annihilated it.
It's all a death cult, just split between those who celebrate it in public as their core message and those who get angry when you mention it.
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