• Crabhands
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    1 year ago

    Too many too old politians. But how to slim the fat. Quota is a neat idea. How about senility test, based on current known conditions and the avg age they occur. The test needs to occur more frequently on people of older ages due to increase odds.

    I feel a quota alone would sometimes screen out perfectly fine older people, while keeping the ones who shouldn’t be there .

    Also 40…damn. I think 20 and 30 year olds can, but rarely have enough life experience for something like this. 35-65 is probably prime age for politicians IMO.

    • Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.social
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      1 year ago

      Also a pretty interesting idea, a sort of per-election test to see if they are both fully sane and up to date on current events.

      … Although the senility test might end up as a tool of disenfranchisement anyway. Just remember Literacy Tests in the American Slave States during Jim Crow.