The Utah Republican and 2012 G.O.P. presidential nominee, 76, said he would step aside to make way for younger leaders and strongly suggested that the president and former president should, too.
That is democracy. You vote them in. Of course leadership positions will always be above the mean age. Same as senior positions in companies will also be older than the new hires. It takes years to become proficient in your trade and new people to politics usually start at the local level first before entering upper offices.
To be fair, infants aren’t allowed to (and probably shouldn’t be allowed to) run for senate, even if they don’t cry about things as much as some of the representatives do. The number probably shouldn’t be perfectly 1-to-1. It’s still way too high though.
Right, and there should be an upper age limit too for the same reasons. For example, I don’t see much difference between a toddler and where Feinstein is at now. I don’t mean to be callus, but we competency in government.
I probably agree. I don’t think it should be a competency test though, because that’s too easy for fascists to manipulate, and they will if given the chance. An age gate is totally OK.
There are 54 senators over 65. Only 16.8% of Americans are over 65. So how the fuck is this proper representation?
Because that’s who people showed up to vote for as their representatives, that’s how.
That is democracy. You vote them in. Of course leadership positions will always be above the mean age. Same as senior positions in companies will also be older than the new hires. It takes years to become proficient in your trade and new people to politics usually start at the local level first before entering upper offices.
To be fair, infants aren’t allowed to (and probably shouldn’t be allowed to) run for senate, even if they don’t cry about things as much as some of the representatives do. The number probably shouldn’t be perfectly 1-to-1. It’s still way too high though.
Right, and there should be an upper age limit too for the same reasons. For example, I don’t see much difference between a toddler and where Feinstein is at now. I don’t mean to be callus, but we competency in government.
I probably agree. I don’t think it should be a competency test though, because that’s too easy for fascists to manipulate, and they will if given the chance. An age gate is totally OK.
And what would be the mechanism to set that age, and raise it if medicine radically alters what is thought of as “old”?
It’s not and we don’t live in a real democracy.