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Over three-fourths of Americans think there should be a maximum age limit for elected officials, according to a CBS News/YouGov survey.

  • spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I wonder what the response would be if the question were phrased differently. For instance, “Do you believe you should be able to vote for the person you support?”

    Edit: Have to laugh at the downvotes.

    Does that mean you do don’t think people should be able to vote for the person they support? What age should be the cutoff point? How about limiting the voting age to those between 30 and 65? Maybe candidates should be required to be right-handed.

    The way to decrease the average age of candidates is to support, organize, and vote for younger ones, not start restricting who you can vote for.

    A more pressing question might be, “Do you think a felon who’s incarcerated in a Georgia state prison should be allowed to be president?”

      • spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        1 year ago

        There’re no restrictions on someone being president while serving a long prison sentence. And how about someone formerly incarcerated for murdering someone on 5th Avenue or found to have committed treason serving as president?

        This fits here nicely:

        George Takei:

        Lost in the breathless, non-stop coverage of Biden’s age is the fact that most of Trump’s former cabinet members are literally warning us he’s mentally and temperamentally unfit to serve again in office.

        Press, stop creating a false presidential competency issue, like you did a false email server issue. Just stop it.