I disagree with this. There should be some level of mental competency, and I think term limits are probably a good idea, but age itself isn’t usually the issue. You have old but relatively decent politicians like Bernie or Mike Gravel, but then you have younger shit politicians like Buttchug, Spanberger, Sinema. As with everything else, the core problem is capitalism and the only real solution is to replace it.
Term limits are undemocratic nonsense. The only thing term limits do is limit the choices a voter is able to make.
What we need a complete overhaul of the electoral process, from campaign finance, how representation is decided and allocated, and literally anything except first-past-the-post voting for allocating political power.
People like the idea of term limits because they see unpopular politicians who manage to hold office for decades because of how rigged the system is, and term limits seem like a simple solution to that problem. The real solution would be to stop enabling the people that rig the system.
There should be no "mental competency" test either. You're basically assuming people are too dumb to be able to tell if someone is senile. This stuff is all just cope for the fact that evil people rule this country and there's no magic rule that changes that.
I disagree with this. There should be some level of mental competency, and I think term limits are probably a good idea, but age itself isn’t usually the issue. You have old but relatively decent politicians like Bernie or Mike Gravel, but then you have younger shit politicians like Buttchug, Spanberger, Sinema. As with everything else, the core problem is capitalism and the only real solution is to replace it.
Term limits are undemocratic nonsense. The only thing term limits do is limit the choices a voter is able to make.
What we need a complete overhaul of the electoral process, from campaign finance, how representation is decided and allocated, and literally anything except first-past-the-post voting for allocating political power.
People like the idea of term limits because they see unpopular politicians who manage to hold office for decades because of how rigged the system is, and term limits seem like a simple solution to that problem. The real solution would be to stop enabling the people that rig the system.
There should be no "mental competency" test either. You're basically assuming people are too dumb to be able to tell if someone is senile. This stuff is all just cope for the fact that evil people rule this country and there's no magic rule that changes that.