The White House goes grey
The future president will be a 70-year-old leading 92 million youngsters. Will the leader know how to understand and fulfil their expectations?
The future president will be a 70-year-old leading 92 million youngsters. Will the leader know how to understand and fulfil their expectations? There is still one issue that has not been adequately addressed in the long, very long, march towards the White House. Or rather, it has been addressed but only marginally. If we turn a coldly cynical eye to the average age of the candidates in both the Democratic and Republican camps, a problem emerges.
Barack Obama was 47 when he became president of the United States, and yet the next occupant of the White House could be a quarter of a century older. In a society increasingly run by millennials, this will pose no small problem.
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