In proper American fashion, with the bombasity and swagger of a middle school bully and the elegance of a morning hangover, we continue to display the devolution of our government into the nicest nursing home in the world.
With an average age of 64.7 according to Pew Research, the U.S. Senate is nearly 25 years older than the median American at 39.4 according to the U.S. Census Bureau. One of the most undemocratic bodies in the U.S. government, it continues to display its elitist hubris with the case of Mitch McConnell.
The senior senator from Kentucky, McConnell is the third oldest member of the Senate, just behind Senator Bernie Sanders, 85, and Senator Chuck Grassley, 93. However, unlike the latter two, McConnell is not nearly as healthy. After having a series of falls and a long-term hospitalization for the most recent. In the event of his absence from the Senate, he was guaranteed great healthcare, continuous pay and job security that no average American is afforded. Propped up in the most insulting way possible, mocking the intelligence of the average American, he was only faced with weak calls for his removal and replacement of office. No American would benefit from that treatment. A single mother could fall ill on Monday and be jobless by Wednesday. Sick pay is not guaranteed by law, let alone for nearly 4 months of illness. Most Americans would work themselves to death before seeing a doctor, not because they want to, but because they cannot afford the bill. McConnell personifies the crumbling American empire and the elitist decay of a poorly maintained oligarchy reaching its final stage of death; a generation gasping for its final breaths before all is nought.
A generation looking to maintain every ounce of power it still has left; raging, scrambling and fighting while it slips into a dark nothingness. A generation that struggles to survive, while mine struggles to be born of this world which is ours. The ‘children in the room’ whom they talk down to are the adults who hold no agency over their lives while the old ways of the world live on out of fear, or maybe spite, not yet accepting their end. The ‘adults in the room’ have not yet accepted that their time is up. It is time that we, as the coming generation, loosen the stranglehold of those before us, so the old order can peacefully go into the night. We need to impress this, not just for ourselves, but for future generations to thrive as well.
Timothy Fitzpatrick can be contacted at
tfitzpatrick@kscequinox.com
