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More than half the nation voted for this, ostensibly. Bc of... (checks notes) egg prices, and bc Biden lied about merely having a cold, before finally doing the right thing and stepping down from running again since he was too old to handle it.
Whatever comes, we brought this on ourselves. With our geriatricracy (geriocracy? either way, I have just decided that is a word that needed to have existed, so there, now it does:-) and abuses of the system that finally killed it. Even Rome fell. No nation has ever survived devolving into a mere 2-party system, the only surprise here is how quickly it fell (and even that mostly to those not paying attention to how powerful Faux News had become).
The word you're looking for is "gerontocracy".
Nuh uh, you're so wrong, and something something about your mother. Oh wait, this isn't Reddit, so I can say wow, you're right, and thank you!:-) Sadly, why isn't this word plastered everywhere all over the media - could it perhaps be that the owners of such like how that works in their favor? 😔