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cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/6875734
People mentioned in this article are very old.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), 81 Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), 90 President Joe Biden, 80 Former President Donald Trump, 77
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We need age and term limits to get these fossils out of office. I feel as though they’re not capable of properly representing their electorate
Exactly. What do 80+ year olds know about the needs of modern kids, teenagers, and young adults? Hell, many of them probably still think rent is like $50/month.
That’s not even the biggest concern; they’re not at all invested in the future because they’re not a part of it. Why would they care about any of the consequences the choices/actions they make now that we’ll be dealing with 20 years from now?
Yep, pretty much. They have no incentive to care about any of it really, because the vast majority of them will be long gone by then.
Even if it was like a decade or two, there needs to be a limit.
Our laws already exclude young people for nothing else than presumed inability, regardless of demonstrations of actual ability.
And yet we have no laws excluding the geriatric, even in cases of demonstrated inability.
The same is true for Japan. Our leaders are completely out of touch, to the point that the minister tasked with Cybersecurity never even owned a smartphone. He’d been using an old flip phone.
Apart from an age limit, term limits need to be installed for any position of power, whether that’s political, economical or judicial functions. Worldwide.
Humans are never to be trusted. Power corrupts.
I mean, I suspect no one is making malware for flip phones. Man’s just planning ahead!
