• Cethin
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    71 year ago

    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.

    • @Buffaloaf
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      61 year ago

      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.

      • Cethin
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        21 year ago

        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.

      • @CharlesDarwin
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        11 year ago

        And what would be the mechanism to set that age, and raise it if medicine radically alters what is thought of as “old”?