Over three-fourths of Americans think there should be a maximum age limit for elected officials, according to a CBS News/YouGov survey.

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    1 year ago

    I don’t want age limits because that’s ableist. I want term limits. That’s an entirely different thing and this poll is intended to receive/manufacture consent.

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      1 year ago

      This kind of idpol idiocy is dogmatic. It’s not ableist to keep babies from holding office and old people degenerate into babies. It’s not hard to understand.

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          1 year ago

          it’s absolutely an inherent quality of being old. no not every 66 year old is unfit to fly a plane. but airlines don’t let them fly. that’s the way it is and that’s the way it should be. stop whining about discrimination.

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              the plane is broken. some 1 in 4 of our countrymen believe a fascist lie. and you’re still bickering over whether or not the senility of the pilots was a factor?

              try this rather than handwaving over the airline decision: explain to me how a generation which fought the cold war ended up electing an obvious russian asset into its highest office without concluding that their politics has gone rancid in their old age.