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David Perlmutter's avatar

It's not only old folks who can pick this up running a business or country- many of the current Internet-based wealthy people suffer from it as well, despite being much younger. When power is concentrated in the hands of one or a few, the age of the leadership doesn't matter if bad things are constantly done.

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Amy Sterling Casil's avatar

I agree - but this current elderly group has PICKED or influenced for those younger people. I did not overtly address it in my article but it's generational. The person picked to replace Dianne Feinstein, for example, is only 44 years old, but she is a LOBBYIST and will vote exactly as Pelosi and Newsom (Getty atty) tell her.

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David Perlmutter's avatar

Master and apprentice is a system as old as time.

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Amy Sterling Casil's avatar

I think it is a generational issue as this particular group has ALL of the symptoms and if the apprentice cannot do jack diddley then the business is out of business, and I truly think that's what going on right now. Internationally - no. Here in US? Yes. Canada - maybe. Idk what's happening with Trudeau but the whole "dynastic" thing sucks.

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Dperson's avatar

An ideological and personality-type consistency governs these sorts of situations. The Founder may have isolated good qualities, but overall they are narcissists and sociopaths. They want power not to do anything with it--not even evil--but just to have it. What they most want is the ability to tell everybody 'no'.

America never should have been an empire. Its end can't come too soon.

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Amy Sterling Casil's avatar

It's terrible - and whose idea was this? When did it start?

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