Republican U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell froze up for more than 30 seconds on Wednesday during a public appearance before he was escorted away, the second such incident in a little more than a month, a clip from an NBC News affiliate showed.
Damn, he looks old in that video. It strikes me as kind of cruel that our political system so strongly incentivizes seniority, both for the young fresh politicians who’re just getting started and the career politicians who feel like they can’t retire because they need to justify dumping the best decades of their lives slowly shimmying up that totem-pole.
FWIW: I do think that connections and experience really do matter for good governance, but no other industry pushes things this far. It’s messed up and it’s messing everything else up, too.
Damn, he looks old in that video. It strikes me as kind of cruel that our political system so strongly incentivizes seniority, both for the young fresh politicians who’re just getting started and the career politicians who feel like they can’t retire because they need to justify dumping the best decades of their lives slowly shimmying up that totem-pole.
FWIW: I do think that connections and experience really do matter for good governance, but no other industry pushes things this far. It’s messed up and it’s messing everything else up, too.