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Too bad there is a huge majority of those same idiots who keep voting Republican!!!!! like always they support one thing and then vote the complete fucking opposite!!!

A Congressional candidate who pledges to push legislation with term limits for Congress and the Supreme Court could get elected just about anywhere.

as all of those americans continue to vote for dinosaurs to represent them

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We all have an Appointment in Samarra, some sooner than others. Nearing the end & suffering from brain cancer Senator John McCain managed to get to the Senate floor, Mitch McConnell is no John McCain. Term limits. Age limits. No lifetime jobs. Enforceable ethics codes.

Maybe the term limits should be "Until I reach my first million dollars."

They can become private consultants if they want to stay involved. I’m for a cap at mandatory social security draw age (70)

Congress, The Supreme Court, The Presidency....

I hate that we still reach for simple, arbitrary solutions (a someone random metric number) rather than outcome-based solutions (ie. regular, objective, empathy and cognition fitness testing). But I get we're PRETENDING to do testing now and it's not working out so sure, age cap. #BetterDems

Expand the House!

I'm a senior citizen and I endorse this amendment.

Sounds pretty undemocratic and prejudiced to me.

We have an age cap! It’s called an election!

No one should get a lifetime appointment in any job. It's ridiculous. You can't fire them and they know they can stay forever, that's not democracy especially when it involves seven people that determine the direction of our lives possibly a lifetime. Change the SCOTUS term to 8 or 10 years max.

Problem is geriatric career politicians are typically tapped by party leadership when left to their own devices

Same for SCOTUS.

Get off your ass and vote against people you feel are unqualified for public office not matter what reason. Your vote is your term limit

Nope. You wouldn't limit the ability to hold elective office by race or sex or any other immutable characteristics. Also, "too old" changes over time. If they came up with age limits in 1946, we'd consider those ridiculous today. It's up to the voters to pick better candidates.

People are fucking stupid and also can’t imagine a world in which dark money doesn’t rule elections. Your issue isn’t incumbents OR old people it’s that those incumbents and old people’s opinions are bought and paid for by Big Tech and Big Pharma and Big Oil

Interesting. I do not think the current Members would agree.

Do you realize that you have to be 25 to be elected to the House?

And an IQ floor, please

We regulate entry into public office.
Exit, however, is largely optional. New essay (with audio version) on aging lawmakers, democratic stagnation, and America’s weakening expectation of succession. open.substack.com/pub/brucemai...

Two wrongs make don’t make a right. They should be allowed too.

After taking a Government Ethics class in college, I made the "term limit" suggestion in my final term paper. That was 1994!

geriatic politicians are so stupid right now... they are DELUSIONAL!

People are unbearably short sighted. Polling your average American about complex issues is about as useful as polling your dog on health insurance

YES on this.

Good luck convincing Congress of that.

I’m opposed to caps based solely on a person’s ‘age’. If they are older and still capable of performing their duties based on the needs of their constituents, age shouldn’t be a factor. Ageism is a dangerous slippery slope.

If only there was a way for voters to vote express this preference in a meaningful way.

RBG was born in 1933-2020 r.i.p. there is always an exception to the rules, however, I would support age limits as well as term limits for Congress and judges. I worry that our aging can increase our natural negative bias. People can still work but maybe not at making laws.

Why do we even bother with polls anymore? We no longer have a representative government (to the extent that we ever did).

Yes! Congress (some of those people look like they have just emerged from the crypt), but also SCOTUS. And maybe, the way things are going currently, an age cap for the president.

Now how do we get that instituted since the very people who exceed the limits make the decision. If this was a general referendum it would handily pass.

Now do the Supreme Court

Btw- the “good behavior” clause in Art III, Sec 1 of the U.S. Const states that fed judges/justices cannot be removed if they are in “good behavior” Age minimums, maximums and terms are not removal, they are boundaries that apply to all This is true in the UK, where this clause originated

Absolutely. We have a minimum age and there should be a maximum along with term limits.

And SCOTUS. Please, and SCOTUS.

It’s absolutely amazing how many of our problems could be fixed if the “vast majority of Americans” voted more intelligently.

Never happen. Not that it shouldn’t but there’s no greater Congressional “special interest” than the interest it has in retaining it power….and jobs.