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15. That's true often with a caveat though

Thu Nov 13, 2025, 11:07 PM

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One reason I think Current Affairs for instance is a consistently excellent magazine in how clearly and concisely they get it right wrt parsing things to decimate any logical loopholes, like Alex Skopic’s latest piece:

There’s a popular line of thinking, embodied in David Hogg’s “Leaders We Deserve” PAC and Samuel Moyn’s forthcoming book Gerontocracy in America, that says elderly, out-of-touch leaders like Chuck Grassley are behind a lot of the country’s problems.
In general, age is a bad proxy for policy preferences, class allegiance, and even competence. The presumption behind the “gerontocracy” narrative is that younger equals more progressive, more worker-friendly, and that’s statistically likely, but not always true in individual cases.

(They are pretty much my favorite publication. I am careful posting them here though since they do bash Democrats a lot, although from the left. I generally agree with them on most things except China. I find China terrifying. And it’s not quite the reason, but I got a window into a type of worldview with Liu Cixin who I think has a very ugly view of what survival means. It’s ruthlessly crass and some of it I think is owed to the worldview of that state).

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