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

      Age isn’t the only risk factor I care about, it’s just the only age factor I care about discussing with you.

      Age limits are de facto term limits. If you want to make it 60 I’m willing to hear it.

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          This isn’t about their values at all. You keep on mindlessly returning to your algorithm for evaluating candidates assuming that people can make a decision as to whether or not an old person is healthy. But we are living in the aftermath of people failing to make that decision.

          If you don’t believe this, you’ve failed a basic political awareness test. If you don’t believe that Trump was unhealthy for this country and that a vote for him is a vote against our civilization, you’ve failed a basic political intelligence test.

          Your model of how well people make these decisions is flawed, wrong, and irrelevant.

          If what you care about [is] in fact [their] health then their age should be irrelevant.

          This is wrong. Health and age are deeply connected. If you can’t accept that, you’re failing a basic biological intelligence test.

          Hint: There’s nothing about a 28 year old that would make them unfit to be President. But our society has made the decision to set an arbitrary line at 35. There is no reason not to set a corresponding arbitrary line at 65.