Waitwhonow

Waitwhonow t1_iqndd8n wrote

Insight from the chart!!

What would be fascinating to see the population growth chart added year as well.

Based on what is being shown here- the median age dropped from the mid 60s to the 80s

So that ‘ may’ mean that during the hippie revolution/the 60s a lot of fucking was done, which drastically increased the number of people in the country( or even immigration changes?!?) and that dropped the median age by quite a lot( and remained constant since then)

But also means that more ‘younger’ people started joining the congress due to all the various movements back then( civil rights/women rights etc) which dropped the average age of the senate.

But, in the 80s, younger people just stopped joining the senate( in the same pace lt did in the 60s/70s) and the average age started creeping up again- to its maximum today.

Maybe because inflation and war forced the younger generation( of the 80s) to just give it up and join the workforce- rather than the congress.

And started electing older folks into office ( aka Reagen and republicans)

Tldr: it looks like boomers just gave up the ‘fight’ after all the drugs and rock and roll, and let the ‘ older generation’ handle it again, and now that they are the ‘older generation’ they dont want to give up the power( coupled with a lack of participation by millennials for myriad of reasons)

2