• gregorum@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    I think it should be younger. Maybe 65.

    Members of Congress and SCOTUS should also have term limits

    • Makhno@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Shit I’d go even lower. Gotta be young enough to have some skin in the game when it comes to the consequences of legislation, etc.

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        4 months ago

        Fair enough, you’re less likely to vote for shit policies if you know that you’re going to be living with them. And even if you do vote for shit policies and end up living with them, it was entirely your damn fault. And you just brought it on yourself.

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    4 months ago

    Let’s do it slightly differently, let’s make the mandatory retirement age for political office the median life expectancy age for the entire country. If the politicians, etc can manage to make everyone live longer, they can hold office longer.

    Similarly, take away their separate and different medical coverage and put them on the same Medicare system everyone else in the country has to use.

  • fukurthumz420@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    no. bernie is a great example of why age is no restriction to being a good politician. you people have to stop trying to use goose and gander legislation to stop conservatives. you stop conservatives by STOPPING CONSERVATIVES.