OPINION: 'It is sad that we are about to lose some experienced and accomplished leaders. But we should also be sad that America now looks like something of a gerontocracy,' writes mattklewis
—especially when you consider the likelihood that Democrats will find another Republican leader they can work with to the degree Biden has been able to work with McConnell.She was first elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1969, and became the board’s first female president having been elevated to that position after the assassinations of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk.
Feinstein was at her desk at City Hall when an ex-supervisor walked past her and murdered her two colleagues. “I went down the hall. I opened the wrong door. I opened door. I found Harvey on his stomach. I tried to get a pulse and put my finger through a bullet hole. He was clearly dead,”Feinstein went on to be California’s first female U.S. senator and the author of 1994’s assault weapons ban, to name just a couple of key points on her resume.
It is sad that we are about to lose some experienced and accomplished leaders. But we should also be sad that America now looks like something of a gerontocracy, where decrepit leaders hang on for dear life, and where we let them, partly because there aren’t any obvious young replacements on the horizon.While one can stave off the effects of aging for so long, Mother Nature always wins. We are seeing that on full display this week.
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