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[-] amanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyz 17 points 4 months ago

Nah, I don't think my issue is with age; it's with lifelong politicians. Introduce term limits.

[-] todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Age is a huge problem. Older people have way more money and time than the rest of us, and they overwhelmingly campaign and vote for their own age bracket. That's why so much of our government is run by senior citizens, and so many of those elderly officials hold old-fashioned views. They represent their their self-serving out-of-touch voting base.

Term limits would help - I would support that across-the-board for just about every elected position - but we really need to make sure that the country is run by people young enough to actually care about the long-term consequences of their decisions. As it stands now, more than half of our representatives will be dead before the real-world results of their policies become apparent. That's not a good dynamic for governing a country of a third of a billion people.

We also need to level the playing field and make early voting universal and make election day a holiday to ensure that wealthy old white people aren't so much more enfranchised than younger Americans, the working class, and people of color.

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