"you're going to deal with my generation until until we die, and we gave Congress and the house Medicare for ourselves so we can be around until we die of something incurable."
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Waaaaaaasmbulance had been dispatched to the DNC
The various generations are sick of hearing from older Democrats.
I want to retire some day. I want my representatives to share that value. If you're going to be above the social security retirement age at the start of a term in a political office, you are not qualified to that office. I'll support finishing out a term you have already started, but I am done voting for people who think it is important they work themselves into the fucking grave.
That's easy, Congress will just raise the retirement age. The oligarchy wants that age raised anyway.
Do you just hit an age where you stop being able to comprehend you're out of touch? Is that going to happen to all of us? I feel out of touch all the time already and I'm nowhere near the Congressional average...
Do you just hit an age where you stop being able to comprehend you’re out of touch?
No. You start out being out of touch and lack of accountability makes it worse every year.
Source: old as dirt, but still in touch.
it happens when you decide to stop learning new things and revising your existing knowledge as society and science advance
oh no the old fucks are "gearing up to push back" whatever will we do against their strongly worded letters
Oh the strongly worded letters are for when we want stuff. When it comes to entrenching geriatric rule for themselves, they'll use every trick in the book to hold on to power!
Too fucking bad.. boo hoo.. Time for the fossils to GO!
(And I'm a 'boomer myself, and can't stand how out of touch and backwards looking most of my generation is.. GTFO you old coots! FFS buy some beer and rent a boat and go fishing and do something worthwhile with what time you have left!)
Term limits and age limits plz
Also kill Citizens United thx
Term limits don't work.
Reversing Citizens United is a long haul. In the meantime, we need to find other ways of disrupting the dark money pipeline.
kill Citizens
This is all they heard.
and some form of ranked voting.
And maybe some form of nation-wide recall systems to deal with the fettermans of the world.
Capital gains tax reform. Companies should reinvest in production and research, not stock buybacks and golden parachutes. This could also curb enshitification.
Slap a tax for any company whose ceo makes some percentage more than its core work force.
We can get all fancy on the math, but their pay is not commensurate to the value they bring
Establishment Dems need to make way for younger and more progressive incumbents. It's clear that they will continue to cling to power until they die before doing so though.
Then GTFO
Maybe they should go away, then
Older Dems: we want younger people to be more engaged in politics, the more younger people that vote, the better we do.
The population: we want younger people to be Democrats instead of old people.
Older Dems: when we said we wanted younger people, we didn't mean like that.
By young they meant candidates that are only in their 60's
Those spry 60 year olds will really get the youth to the ballot boxes!
The silly thing is, those in their 60s and 50s are Generation X — you know, the generation with a lower population that boomers and millennials usually forget exist.
You just reminded me I'm in my 40s.
And it still feels weird AF. I'm not supposed to be this old.
I feel you.
Green and Menefee will go to a runoff in May. Green swatted away questions about the age factor on Wednesday, declaring, "I am generational change."
Yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and say when you find yourself paraphrasing mother fucking Emperor Palpatine it's time to stop being a senator
Older Dem here, eagerly waiting generational change. Bring in AOC, bring in Bernie, bring in the Squad, I can't wait!
I wish Bernie had a 35 year old grandson that was exactly like he is, hair and all.
They sure do bug me for money a lot for people who don't like my opinion
I’ve lost track of the number of text messages I’ve replied “STOP” to over the last few months.
I've given up with STOP, and unsubscribing with email, to just blocking everything now.
I've sometimes wondered if people read the replies (because I know there was ONE time that someone answered me), and when I get bored I just pull up the text message list and start in on a random topic. Maybe a volunteer will learn about why rabies vaccines aren't a big deal, but are still super important, or why animal husbandry is a very vital industry for the government to invest in even though we need to transition to vegan lifestyles.
I’ve always wanted the age of government office to be tied to the average age of stroke/heart attack in your state. Your ass is out at that age unless you can bring that number up through comprehensive healthcare reform.
Edit: bring the age up. My brain is mush.
You mean up, right?
...
You mean up?
Yes, I’m a dummy.
Oooh I like this idea
Golden ticket!!
They were even listening?
Cool, older Dems!
We're sick of you still being alive, please do something good for once in your lives and fucking die.
I think it's orchestrated, myself.
It seems nihilistic and doesn't seem to have any real aim other than further dividing Democrats. There is nothing inherently good or bad about someone's age (well, unless they haven't fully developed the PFC - there is a reason there are age requirements at the lower end) when you are trying to determine if they are fit to lead.
Now, if people were to propose using more advanced screening techniques to catch things like Alzheimer's or other problematic things (I'd be a fan of trying to screen out various traits that lead to really bad leadership, myself, but obviously implementation would have many problems and of course many detractors), that might make more sense. But no, we are listening to what sounds like petulant teenagers having tirades about older people and it's rather boring. All of us were 14 once, but most of us evolved since then. The idea that you are only going to have representation from people who are in your "generation" is an incredibly silly and narcissistic one.
Lastly I keep saying this, but: this particular period of time is really not going to age very well if life extension and other breakthroughs come online.
There’s a difference between wanting more diverse representation and only wanting representation from one generation and I think you’re being dismissive about a real complaint from those of us being told to vote for the same old guard again and again.
It is true: I am highly dismissive of some kind of arbitrary cutoff based on age or term limits.
I completely understand the deep frustration with certain individuals, for example, Schumer and Pelosi. But it has little to do with their age or the number of terms they have had, in my view. Things like this should be determined, by voters, on a case by case basis.
If people are really that animated about changing the guard, then they need to do the work and show up on primaries, whether that is going so far as running themselves, or working for campaigns, or at least voting. But arbitrarily preempting the choices that others may want to vote for if they like a candidate, regardless (or perhaps because) of age/years of experience seems very unwise.
I think it absolutely has to do with the number of terms they had when it’s clear they’re there to line their pockets instead of working for the working class. They’ve had ample time to work against the creep of fascism and they failed or are complicit. The fact that they’re throwing a fit over being pushed to make way for younger and more progressive candidates just reveals their selfishness.
If a viable candidate runs in the primary, and the voters show up, then that's the opportunity to have the old guard pushed out. I don't see any problem with that and it's how it is supposed to work. What I object to is some kind of blanket rules about term limits or age limits. That removes the opportunity for voters to reward candidates they like.
There are term limits for other positions, why not here? What’s your objection to term limits?
I just don't think term limits are anywhere near the panacea some people seem to think they are. I've heard crusty old conservatives mutter "term limits" about politics ever since I can remember. Almost in the same tone I hear some of them say "cull the herd" and "tort reform" these days. It just seems like some mantra to repeat.
And now I see others outside the conservasphere sometimes taking up this mantra. It strikes me as a distraction, if I'm honest. The real problem is money and legalized bribery and I don't know what term limits would possibly accomplish, other than just having more people with no experience in these roles. There is nothing to say they could not be groomed by the likes of Thiel and just do self-dealing from minute one just because of their age or the number of terms they have had.
I've always been baffled by this heroic notion of a magical outsider, brought into politics, and simply by virtue of being an outsider that it would be a good thing. Politician is about the only endeavor where there is this odd wish to have a NON-expert in that position. The term limits mantra often seems to go hand in hand with the pining for the outsider thing. And I'll just never get it.
Being a politician is like any other field, and requires expertise. I don't see people pining for term limits on doctors, mechanics, plumbers, businessmen, dentists, etc., and I sure don't see people signing up to be the first to have their teeth drilled by an outsider, just to "shake things up".
Yeah. There are states with term limits now. They're no better governed than states without them. Term limits are one of those obvious solutions that actually solve nothing.
Nothing is going to change democratically at this point