What if people started living longer?

[Person Man]

Let's say 100 became a common or at least not uncommon age to live to. How would that effect elections?

[Skill and Chance]

1. Massive political fight over the retirement age, with the elderly likely to win and keep it fairly low while increasing taxes/cutting services for young people

2. Less/slower social change in general, youth causes generally take a couple of decades to win any meaningful political battles.

3. A movement to bring back pensions, mandate better retirement benefits in the private sector

4. More swing states that resemble Florida

5. On economics, the elderly (particularly those who have private investments) would have a strong preference for high interest rates and essentially no inflation.  They would likely have the votes to get both of these.  Young people who aren't in line to inherit will deeply resent this and eventually back a William Jennings Bryan like figure.

Basically, the country would get less libertarian all around.

[Kingpoleon]

Let's say 100 became a common or at least not uncommon age to live to. How would that effect elections?

I read in Reader's Digest once, I think in 2013, that one third of all babies born that year will live to be one hundred.

[Blue3]

You can't take anything in isolation. This is already happening, and it's happening along with the automation trend. We're going to have to transition to Social Security becoming a universal basic income for people of all ages.

[TML]

I also wonder if this would increase the likelihood of septuagenarians, octogenarians, nonagenarians, and/or centenarians getting elected into public office (Remember, most of the current slate of likely 2020 Democratic presidential contenders would be septuagenarians or older by then)...

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

They already have Generation X and Millineals will outlive their Baby Boomer parents and grandparents.

[100% pro-life no matter what]

I think medicine (possibly things like a cure for cancer and a way to let people eat whatever they want and not exercise with no side effects) actually will increase life expectancy into the 100s by mid-century.

[Santander]

We need the boomers to outlive their children.

[Person Man]

We need the boomers to outlive their children.

How does that happen?