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In our youth-obsessed culture, a paradox is all around us.   Namely, b oth political parties seem embedded with aging and tired players who refuse to give up their places on the center stage of American politics.  They seem not recognize the world is changing - has changed - around them. They hearken back to younger days when they learned their craft, often causing more damage than good. These include Clinton, Pelosi, McCain, Mitchell, Sanders, and others. All have big influence in that whatever they say is widely carried by news outlets. This, in turn, fuels the pundits with days of moronic commentary.  You pick the channel. Technically, we call this a feedback loop. On this note: Have you ever noted the background persons in NOKO Kim Jong Un’s public appearances?  All, almost without exception, seem to be aging generals and admirals. I guess Kim likes people around him that could or likely would not be competitors. This is not prejudice against the aging, given I am

I am always on alert to any political party where there is the near certainty there is a political elite who dominate its power, precepts and principles.   These types of political movements almost always give strong words to the equality of the people, while the leaders themselves believe they should be part of the party’s elite, the good shepherds of the movement.   It is all the others who are the sheep.    Such people justify themselves in their self-appointed roles as uniquely able, uniquely caring, and uniquely qualified.    All of this serves to make them fully self-satisfied and fundamentally good – in their minds.   Make no mistake, when someone in political power feels fundamentally good,   be concerned.    Such parties, upon assuming power, invariable become corrupt, morally and materially.     After all, when doing so much good, skimming a little by way of perks is only just.   And, helping our like-minded friends with beneficence is merely the right thing to do.   Moreove