• @[email protected]
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      Yeah, it’s not just mental capacity, her decisions right now no longer will affect her. We should have a younger people whose these policies will also impact.

    • @[email protected]
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      86 hours ago

      No, we need a physical age limit. Aside from needing to get new people in so that we can pass on institutional knowledge before their staffers are voting for them while they hang out in a nursing home.

      The fact that we live in a gerontocracy is part of the reason we’re in so much shit in general. Why should the 83 yo senator from Bumblefuckia give a fuck about climate change, they’ll be dead way before it’s a problem. Why do they care about proper financial regulations when it might impact their ability to insider trade and pass off their unearned wealth to their kids.

    • @[email protected]
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      3512 hours ago

      The issue with lifelong politicians isn’t just their mental capacity but their lifelong detachment from reality as they live in a privileged bubble.

      Wisdom can be written down, that would be more wise to do anyway.

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        Yes, but there is also Bernie. He is far more attached to reality than any young Republican in the Senate (or Democrat).

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          208 hours ago

          No one can argue with that, but the reason his name comes up every time is that he’s the exception, not the rule. His net worth is also a fraction of that of Pelosi’s or most of his political peers.

          • @[email protected]
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            34 hours ago

            A ceiling on net worth for representatives is certainly an interesting concept, but not really relevant to the conversation.

            It gets hard to show a correlation with time in service to detachment from reality when one of the longest serving members is the most grounded, and many of the youngest and most recent members are absolutely insane.

            Even Pelosi is pretty progressive relative to the rest of the Democratic representation, and certainly of Congress as a whole. (Very feint praise given the field). She is certainly out of touch, but she was that way when she was far younger as well.

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              34 hours ago

              The issue with lifelong politicians isn’t just their mental capacity but their lifelong detachment from reality as they live in a privileged bubble.

              The point of my net worth comment is that it’s part of her privileged bubble, and is one factor encouraging Bernie to be less out of touch.

              I also think Bernie still gives a shit about the common person, and I don’t think Pelosi can remember any details of how the common person lives, based on many of her recent actions, including but not limited to this.

              Ultimately my point is that citing Bernie is not (IMO) a reasonable rebuttal to the quoted bit at the top of this comment, and is very specifically not an apples to apples rebuttal of the Pelosi situation, even if he weren’t also a singular example.

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        but their lifelong detachment from reality as they live in a privileged bubble

        Does that include Bernie?

        Wisdom can be written down, that would be more wise to do anyway.

        Something written may not be read. Better to have both, the Wisdom at ground zero in real-time (especially if the feces is hitting the fan), and written down afterwards for posterity’s sake.

        This comment is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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          109 hours ago

          “Politicians shouldn’t be X”

          “BuT WHaT aBOuT tHIs pOLiTiCIaN?”

          “yeah, them too”

          Literally every fucking time lmao

          • @WraithGear
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            And even then, should he stay? If we had more people like him to take the reins, i would be more comfortable having him retire. But everyone is susceptible to time. Without someone there at the right time we will have another RGB on our hands