The Gerontocracy Of American Politics

Every day that politics in the USA
relies on men and women who were fit
and young when they joined their party
of choice stay on as if they were in it for life
becomes another day for America to embody
the oldest of black/bleak humour
-that of the T shirt that says 'elect the dead'.
Where the dead will stand in elections
and be voted in by the not-very-alive,
supervised by never-alive AI processes.

If the elderly want to stay in politics,
let them stand down, and be like Jimmy Carter,
set up charities where they see the changes
they want to be, but they now can only see
- age stops them being it. But financing it
is as near as they can get to making it happen.

For as much as they can see, but they can't be,
let them support others to make the arrangements for it.