Speaking of old ass politicians, Dianne Fenstein just lead a bill out of committee! What does it do? It hides the identities of federal judges, so that we know even less about the branch of government that's already the most inaccessible!
https://goldrushcam.com/sierrasuntimes/index.php/news/local-news/35203-u-s-senator-dianne-feinstein-reports-lead-senate-sponsors-laud-passage-of-judicial-security-bill-out-of-committee-would-protect-judges-sensitive-personal-information
nothing like a deadline to motivate you to finish a project
I disagree with this. There should be some level of mental competency, and I think term limits are probably a good idea, but age itself isn’t usually the issue. You have old but relatively decent politicians like Bernie or Mike Gravel, but then you have younger shit politicians like Buttchug, Spanberger, Sinema. As with everything else, the core problem is capitalism and the only real solution is to replace it.
Term limits are undemocratic nonsense. The only thing term limits do is limit the choices a voter is able to make.
What we need a complete overhaul of the electoral process, from campaign finance, how representation is decided and allocated, and literally anything except first-past-the-post voting for allocating political power.
People like the idea of term limits because they see unpopular politicians who manage to hold office for decades because of how rigged the system is, and term limits seem like a simple solution to that problem. The real solution would be to stop enabling the people that rig the system.
There should be no "mental competency" test either. You're basically assuming people are too dumb to be able to tell if someone is senile. This stuff is all just cope for the fact that evil people rule this country and there's no magic rule that changes that.
Is he saying that because of Bernie? Is he really that hurt?
But I don't care about people's ages so much as I care about their record and how they impacted the working class with their actions. And barring them from running for office if they're rich is also good enough for me.
I don't really like the thought of enforcing ageism but something does need to be done because these 70 year olds are just so out of touch with the rest of the world they are incapable of addressing modern problems. Hell most of them probably don't even care cause they won't live long enough to see the consequences of their actions.
Ageism is already enforced in the other direction and nobody takes issue with it. If a 12 year-old can't be president, neither can a 72 year-old. What I'm saying is that the next president needs to be 12 years old.
"Bedtime is hereby abolished by executive order. I will not be taking questions. Mother, please fetch my tendies."
Yeah I also get why we don't want kids in charge of anything. I wish there was some compitancy test we could give people before they ran for any public office but I'm sure it would end up racist as fuck.
Just give em the Alzheimer's test. If that's racist then it's probably best that we catch that anyway.
That's just liberalism. Age has nothing to do with the fact they're the servants of capital (and I guess are capitalists themselves). You could make every person in Congress younger than 30 and literally nothing would change.
Young billionaires don't care about climate change even though they'll love to see a lot more of it than the old ones
Yeah getting a bunch of young psychos into office would probably do a lot to stem any progressive movement. People see Ocasio-Cortez or whoever and think they're being represented in government.
young people can be and are neoliberal scum suckers. the difference is they're often more competent at it.
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Should be 60 tho, and should also extend to all political appointments like judges and cabinet members. And actually to most of society too, no one should be working after 60, retire bitch.
(hot take) If we actually had good health care I think 60 would probably only be considered middle aged because bumping life expectancy to 100 shouldn't be a big problem.
That said being able to retire at 60 would be awesome and if it weren't for this capitalist hell scape forcing as much value out of people as possible retiring after forty ish of work would be easily achievable.
(hot take) If we actually had good health care I think 60 would probably only be considered middle aged because bumping life expectancy to 100 shouldn’t be a big problem.
Nah, the highest life expectancy in the world is 85 or so, 100 is going to be very difficult to reach in the near future without some major breakthrough.
Yeah my main reasons for saying 60 is you should get to retire when you still have a lot of healthy years left to enjoy, and because I don’t believe there’s actually enough work to have people over 60 working. They’re taking up jobs that could be taken by younger people, which is part of why advancing in careers is so much harder. Honestly I think we could probably set retirement age at 55 and be fine.
And for politicians, I think being older specifically changes your interests in ways that can be really dangerous, like with climate change. If you’re old climate change is just not as big of a problem for you, and because of that I don’t trust old people to hold power. You don’t get to pick what we order for the table right before you leave.
They’re taking up jobs that could be taken by younger people
Having "too many" people who can work should never be considered a problem in the first place, and it's only capitalism that makes this into a problem.
If we didn't organize our economy around workers competing with each other on the labor market to sell their bodies to a capitalist who will run them into the ground for as cheaply as possible, and instead had workers democratically organizing their own labor, then having more people than you need in the labor pool just means everyone is able to work less. "Many hands make light work."
70
Make that 60. Forced retirement for all professions, even politicians.
Just make it so that the age of the ticket combined can't exceed a hundred.
