I've seen magazine clippings and stuff of people back as far as the 60s have that same "I can't wait until all the old farts in power die out and people who aren't so out of touch can get things done" take I keep seeing now days so I can't really have a lot of trust in someone's political ideas if they make that kinda quip.
If anything people in positions of power are going to keep getting older as life expectancy for the rich keeps going up.
I'm honestly less concerned about rich old people than I am about their children, a generation that has been raised with an unimaginable level of privilege, entirely insulated from the rest of society which has led many of them to develop incredibly twisted ethics. Or their children, who are even further removed from normal human experience.
I will say that at least in the US, it's probably more likely to work now than before, not that I agree it's a useful plan for political change.
But both political parties right now have held power for their respective major monetary interests by basically refusing to teach anyone joining their part of the legislature how politics works, by making new congresspeople rely on them, never passing down knowledge that isn't necessary, and sometimes just not training your staff on how to do things because they don't like you.
they've concentrated their political knowledge and 12-D chess into the older Congresspeople, and refuse to pass it on. Which means the current way of things does have a chance of dying with them, because of their own hubris.
but this is true of both parties, and in both parties what takes hold in the power vacuum is not necessarily better. it cannot be a strategy on it's own.
