Today I decided I wanted to recontectualize the American presidents of my lifetime in terms of intergenerational power struggle. Once I had a few data points I started to notice that there was a distinct cluster starting to emerge around the span of years that is disputed boomer/genx territory, so I decided to pull out the graph I did of that sort of thing a while back (you can see the full chart here) and plot some points on it. And then I decided to plot some failed bids – I skipped everyone who failed to turn their opponent into a one-term president, sorry guys.
This definitely confirms my initial suspicion that the Republicans generally like much older candidates than the Democrats. With the exception of Hillary and Biden, every Democrat candidate is 10-20 years younger than their Republican counterpart.
Does the clustering of presidents around the years that different demographers claim for different generations mean anything? I dunno. Does the concept of a “generation” even mean anything, or is it just a bunch of bullshit dreamt up by assholes who want to sell you useless shit? I dunno. I’m just plotting numbers on a timeline here.
Part of me wants to rework this with the years people were elected instead of their numbers in the list of presidents, and insert the rest of the losing candidates. But most of me wants to get some lunch and some cat food and work on finishing the roughs for the next part of No Pizza On Luna.