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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That brings back some memories of a former US president. https://youtube.com/watch?v=Yq7FKO5DlV0

And to answer OP question :

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Yes, more younger politicians. Make retirement age 50. And more diversity as well, less white males.


[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I heard even more radical proposal (not in us) - cap the voting age. Reason is simple, by voting you decide about future, how can pensioners who, frankly, will die soon can reasonably decide about my future if I am 20 yo.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Maybe once you retire and get your pension you stop voting.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

If it's capped on the other side of your life then it needs to be capped on that side too.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Simple, if you can't get elected before a age X then you shouldn't be able to get elected after (life expectancy - X)

Example: Can't become president before 35? Life expectancy is 75 for men and 80 for women, men can't become president after 40, women after 45.

Just watch how fast life improves in the USA if you put a measure like that in place, not just from having younger politicians but also from wanting to be able to get elected later in life.

Same for voting right, can't vote before 18, can't vote after 57 and 62.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Not for House or Senate. Age just isn't a close enough metric for what you're trying to fix.

If you're concerned with age-related decline, vote them out if you see signs of it, or if they would reach whatever age your limit is during the term.

If you're concerned about longevity in office, use term limits or reform campaign finance such that longevity in office doesn't grant too high of an incumbent advantage.

SCOTUS, sure. I think Canada has appointments until 75. Does not seem meaningfully different from appointments for life except less randomness on open slots.

[โ€“] AgentGrimstone 2 points 7 months ago

Needs to be a little lower

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

certainly. even lower. Some people can be vigorous in their seventies but they are not the majority, 50's many go down. That is one problem with raising the retirement age in general. There is only a subset that can keep working as age goes up.

[โ€“] Sam_Bass 1 points 7 months ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

No. Because as time goes on, 75 will be younger and younger.

[โ€“] Maggoty 1 points 7 months ago

We can always push it back more if that's true.

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[โ€“] lemmefixdat4u 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

No. That's age discrimination. If you're concerned that a person could be suffering from mental degradation, require annual testing for it. I know folks in their 90's who are better critical thinkers than a lot of 20-somethings.

The problem we have is not that a bunch of old people run the country. It's that a bunch of young people put them there because they were the only real choices they had. Fix the two-party system first by employing ranked-choice voting. That will break the stranglehold that Republicans and Democrats have on the US political system.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Yep, no question.

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