 We all know the jokes about Brezhnev and Chernenko and Andropov falling asleep in the middle of meetings. There was a stretch of decades there when everybody who ran the Soviet Union seemed to be aged about 93. Well, you look at the White House today and Congress today and you think our leaders are getting pretty old too. And one of the reasons why garantocracies develop in political systems is because the older generation is clinging to power and they don't trust what the younger generation is going to do with it.