[TomGuy]

It was boring old conservative men that founded and built the greatest nations on this planet.

They were not that 'old'.

In 1776, the average age of the Founding Fathers was 43.8

Adams, John - 41	Adams, Sam - 54	Bartlett - 47	Braxton - 40
Carroll - 39	Chase - 35	Clark - 51	Clymer - 37
Ellery - 49	Floyd - 42	Franklin - 70	Gerry - 32
Gwinnett - 41	Hall - 52	Hamilton - 21	Hancock - 39
Harrison - 50	Hart - 64	Hewes - 46	Heyward - 30
Hooper - 35	Hopkins - 69	Hopkinson - 39	Huntington - 45
Jay - 32	Jefferson - 33	Lee, Francis - 42	Lee, Richard - 44
Lewis - 63	Livingston - 60	Lynch - 27	Madison - 26
McKean - 42	Middleton - 34	Morris, Lewis - 50	Morris, Robert - 42
Morton - 51	Nelson - 38	Paca - 36	Paine - 45
Penn - 35	Read - 43	Rodney - 49	Ross - 46
Rush - 31	Rutledge - 27	Sherman - 55	Smith - 57
Stockton - 46	Stone - 33	Taylor - 60	Thomson - 47
Thornton - 62	Walton - 27	Washington - 44	Whipple - 46
Williams - 45	Wilson - 35	Witherspoon - 53	Wolcott - 50
Wythe - 50

[C. Edmund Wright]

43 back then was about life expectancy - making it the equivalent of 75 today.

Yes, by the standards of their times, they were old.