Would you support a mandatory retirement age of 75 for US House, US Senate & US Supreme Court Justices and if not why?
Would you support a mandatory retirement age of 75 for US House, US Senate & US Supreme Court Justices and if not why?
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No. I do support conditional retirement. What I don't want to do is remove those individuals who are older and have the connections and experience to get things done, and actually do the job they are there to do. I'm at work and don't have time to expand on the how, though a system should be put in place so that those conditions need to be followed, and locked in requiring majority approval through the normal process, with a subclause to be revisited every single damn year if it is temporarily unrestricted due to some issue or another.
It's those connections I specifically want to sever. Because they're usually connections to special interest groups, enemy nations, cults, etc.
Not only do I think elderly people shouldn't be allowed to hold office, I don't believe they should be allowed to vote. It has been conclusively proven that they vote "fuck you, got mine." You should not have a say in a future you will not live to see.
I'm on the fence about this as I agree and disagree with what you're saying. Not because the elderly do have a disproportionate amount of potential time to vote (with other possible complications that come with it), you're right that many of them won't see the true effects that their votes cause. Having said that...
I also feel that this is a slippery slope. It's not a far leap to deny voting rights to one group of people and then extend the denial of rights to another group.
The Black community doesn't really...
Native Americans don't do...
This minority shouldn't impact this majority because...
These are the very things that the Right Wing has spent years, and millions of dollars, promoting in bad faith. Essentially brainwashing far too many people into believing they are correct to hide behind racism and hate and "patriotism" if it means not allowing some group or person they don't agree with to win, even if it hurts them.
Let older people vote. Restrict age and experience to mentor status - allowed to sit in and support revisions by guidance, not through official acts, and only if they have acted throughout their time in office for the good of the people within their station, and even then for X years, such as say two. That's my compromise.