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submitted 5 months ago by Exusia to c/politicalmemes

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[–] Diplomjodler3 21 points 5 months ago

Grandma's lucky she doesn't have to work at Walmart.

[–] ProvableGecko 10 points 5 months ago

Congress? Make her the president!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

You don't get it! If they stop self mummifying on their seats of power, something crazy might happen like Millenials and Zoomers getting into them and implementing desperately needed changes to the way this country works!

They can't ever let that happen so long as they draw breath!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

They are just trying to show millennials and gen-z their future (tho doing so in a lot more comfortable & privileged way).

[+] EleventhHour -26 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] Mog_fanatic 42 points 5 months ago

The Senate is the oldest it's ever been. The house is the oldest it's ever been. We have two guys running for president and if either of them wins they will be the oldest president there's ever been... Breaking BOTH of their own records they each set when they served... It may not be a new problem but it's quite literally never been this bad in the history of this country.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

You are an idiot my friend. You come in to insult and angrily refute a person making a joke with idiodic assertions.

This is new, the age of our representatives has been getting older and older as time goes on.

One, at the time outlier, example does not change this.

The average age of our house of representatives has seen a massive increase since 2000. A huge upward spike. This has been continual, but the rapid increase is new.

The reality is clear boy, but you come in here to sound smart and feel superior.

https://thesoundingline.com/congress-the-art-of-incumbency-part-ii/

Also, they don't claim it's new, other than the age which has been increasing for years in fact being older than it was before

They said nothing about biden either freak

[–] somethingsnappy 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Hey hey hey. Not all freaks are idiots.

[–] FuglyDuck 4 points 5 months ago

I would submit freakiness requires creativity. This sort of suggests a higher-than-normal average.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Looking at this, one could think that the house of representative just kept the same people since 2000.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I mean that is in fact what has basically happened. The amount of people who have been able to coast on incumbency for decades now is far higher now than it ever was at any other point in our history.

And I think our voting system is largely to blame for it, save for safe districts, primarying the incumbent is always going to be seen as weakening a candidate who's already won the district multiple times. With really most non FPTP systems (but IMO especially with STAR and especially especially with multi-seat STAR) where you can just skip the primaries altogether without worry that in party competition will endanger making it easier for the opposition to rally against a divided voting base.

Really all the freaking out about Biden IMO is mostly him just becoming a magnet for everyone's frustrations about these forever incumbent politicians who have been able to keep being re-elected not necessarily on merit but on the implied threat that if it isn't them it could be the other side!