Over three-fourths of Americans think there should be a maximum age limit for elected officials, according to a CBS News/YouGov survey.

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    1 year ago

    75% reactionaries. Yeah, let’s throw out all our most experienced, knowledgeable people.

    It seems cool at first but think it through. It’s a dumb idea to combat a problem that really isn’t that big of a problem. For every zombie like Diane Feinstein, there’s a Bernie Sanders that’s sharper and more energetic than some 20 something’s I know.

    We have a perfectly good mechanism to get zombies out of office without throwing out the baby with the bath water, and it’s called voting.

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      1 year ago

      I feel confident Bernie would be happy to step down if it meant the heavily-entrenched geriatrics like McConnell and Feinstein did as well. This isn’t a matter of individual liberties, so we don’t have to hold the standards to minimizing any potential harm; we can instead focus on decisions which affect the greatest good. I strongly disagree with your opinion “for every zombie like Diane Feinstein, there’s a Bernie Sanders that’s sharper and more energetic than some 20 something’s I know” and instead think it’s more like there are 10 geriatric zombies doing harm to the country and system for every 1 decent Bernie Sanders-type.

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      1 year ago

      75% percent tired of old people having all the voting power and rejecting all ideas for change because it’s going to make their last 10 years of their old ass life uncomfortable.