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We live in a gerontocracy, of course our leaders are going to be suffering from cognitive decline.
The world would be so much better off if you just couldn't be elected after a certain age.
Hypocrisy is the conservative way, though. The Canadian conservative party leader (but not actually an MP) got into politics saying if he were Prime Minister, he would enact a two-term limit (8 years) for all MPs.
He was an MP for 25 years until he lost his seat this spring. Ironically, one of his campaign slogans was 'vote for change'. Upon the electorate voting for the change of their representative and him losing his seat, he then went to Alberta to steal another conservative MP's seat, while also continuing to reside in the mansion for the official Leader of the Opposition in Parliament.
Good old Mr. Verb the Noun
Poiluevre? Wow I didn't know that.
55 lol
45!
... no, wait, fuck 45! 46!
Well I guess I got one, maybe 2 elections to get a small time gov job lol. But I feel like voting should be cut off at 70 as well. There's just too many things to go wrong with that, meaning "ok grandma it's all filled out, just sign here" or old folks homes and stuff. We would have to enshrine SSA, and Medicare/Medicaid to protect them from attacks on benefits, but people that close to death shouldn't be forcing their ancient views on society moving forward. It really doesn't matter here though. We're not getting another election, not without a fight.
I meant getting elected. As for old people voting, you have a point, but if old people's views don't matter at all, then you can easily imagine a world where policy doesn't care about them, which might be dangerous.
I just wish we had fewer old people. It sounds like I'm arguing for a purge... But I just mean I wish our birth rates were stable instead of going all boom-and-bust.
They should index it to when you can draw social security.
Would be nice if we could mandate highly invasive and frequent cognition tests for our leaders past retirement age. Like, "surprise exam ya haggard bitch, pass this or you're out with no pension or benefits!" Ideally conducted by some 3 agency's door kicker team at 3AM on a Saturday, every Saturday.
I think we can all agree that it should be steeper, going forward. Precipitously so, frankly.