| Summary: | This article offers a behavior-social movement perspective on factors that might facilitate or impede “senior power,” a political movement and-or voting bloc, which, thus far, has been a latent force. The likely scenario for senior power’s emergence would be major threats to Social Security and Medicare benefits, in conjunction with a major fiscal-economic crisis. Factors inhibiting senior power include class differences, identity politics, a looming age-race political divide, shifting political party coalitions, and Medicare-for-All proposals viewed as weakening Medicare and Social Security. AARP’s voter mobilization efforts are examined.
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