Is there any data showing they stayed in political roles longer than any other generation (obviously having to factor in average lifespans going up)?

Lead and being raised in a time of plenty...

Lead effects people at even tiny levels, a baby born today will experience the same thing boomers are, just to a much lesser extent. Because lead never really goes away, it just gets buried in the dirt or absorbed into plants/animals/humans.

As we age and naturally lose critical thinking (60ish, but varies) to compensate we fall back on patterns from when we were teenagers to early 20s. Evolutionarly speaking, stuff was supposed to be mostly the same and it wasn't a problem.

But now it is, because not just technology but society and civil rights have changed drastically.

Lead effects critical thinking the same way, and the brain compensates the same way

So people who were running around when leaded gas was a thing, didn't just get it early, they're getting it harder now.

In their heads they're all 20 and in prime health, they think they'll live for ever and everything will workout, and they never see the consequences coming when it doesn't.

That's why they don't retire, not just politicians, a lot of them just worked till they died even if they didn't have to. Every single one was breathing leaded gas exhaust as a kid, and the older they get, the stronger the symptoms get.

In 60 years, they'll say the same about something else we all use. Not just the obvious like plastic, something we genuinely think is awesome right now.

A lot of these people are silent generation even older than boomers. My dad was born in 42 he was silent generation

Luckily for us all, the floor will literally be lava before any of us have to ever touch them or pry anything from their bodies.

Then the Republicans will force the seat to stay open until they have another fascist in office and the democrats won’t do anything to push back

It's the fires of hell gently broiling his face

One could assume an illness/lifestyle may be the cause of that redness.

Heart disease can do that. A boy can hope.

Or Congress could just pack the court, there's nothing that says how many Justices there should be

I think 1 as well. He's pulling an RBG. But of course the difference is, if Alito misses his chance to easily replace himself with another conservative, the court is still majority right-wing. Every swing helps though.

From the Republican perspective, they'd want him to step down so Trump could appoint another younger judge who can lock in a conservative seat on the court for many more years to come.

Him staying runs the same risk as RBG staying: dying or being forced to retire early when a Democrat is in the White House, who would then nominate a less conservative judge.

It's a small blessing that such a careless expression of ego is bipartisan so he too might be able to die when it will change the political composition of the court.

They don't have term limits, which is what you'd want to enforce I imagine.