Over three-fourths of Americans think there should be a maximum age limit for elected officials, according to a CBS News/YouGov survey.
Over three-fourths of Americans think there should be a maximum age limit for elected officials, according to a CBS News/YouGov survey.
Why don’t they just vote for younger people? Why does there need to be a law?
First past the post voting is why.
So many problems go back to that.
But in this case, committee assignment is based on seniority. So the longest serving members get first dibs. This means that to keep power, the parties must put money into keeping incumbents in place.
I’m Canadian, we don’t have this problem. I don’t think they do in the UK or Europe either.
You guys didn’t either, until just more relatively recently. Feels gross, it feels corrupt
First Past the Post is an issue in Canada and the UK as well.
I tend to advocate for STAR, because it seems to be one of the best voting systems ever designed. Sadly, the people who were elected thanks to FPtP don’t want to surrender power by switching to a better voting system. This is why you sometimes see these ghouls pushing things like Ranked Choice, a system that is only marginally better than FPtP, if you ignore some massive (and exploitable) flaws.
You need to read more news. Yes, you absolutely fucking have this problem in Canada. Why am I still hearing about Doug Ford, huh? And in the UK they have a different variance of problems, because they have passed about half of the reforms necessary to solve this.
Doug ford isn’t 80 years old
Because older politicians are more established and have larger networks to support/bribe them.
But like I said, there are politicians in other countries too. This seems to be exclusively an American oddity
Because seniority gets you the powerful positions. So its beneficial to a party and its constituents to keep the same person in place as long as possible so that they get the more powerful assignments.
We know they don’t. It doesn’t really matter why, unless you think there’s some as-yet-unknown reason why it’s actually a good thing that people vote that way
Because young voters don’t show up to primaries.
They probably should
Our options are guys they fall upstairs and stroke out reading teleprompters. We don’t get a choice of young people lol they get voted by in primaries not by voters but funding and politico. if they even make it there.