“The truth is that the ethnic, racial, and gender composition of our political leadership does not accurately reflect the demographic makeup of a country. ““–Tracy Gendron, chair of Virginia Commonwealth University’s department of gerontology and executive director of the Virginia Center on Aging. House Speaker Tip O’Neill was 72, and Senate Speaker Pro Tempor Strom Thurmond was 82. “Chronological age is different from biological age – including brain age,” he explains. “There is no age when a person is ‘too old to run for office or to do anything else,'” Gendron says.

Source: CBC News September 20, 2022 07:03 UTC