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McConnell and Feinstein episodes raise age concerns about US leaders (www.washingtonexaminer.com)

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cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/6875734

People mentioned in this article are very old.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), 81 Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), 90 President Joe Biden, 80 Former President Donald Trump, 77

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[-] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago

We need age and term limits to get these fossils out of office. I feel as though they're not capable of properly representing their electorate

[-] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

Exactly. What do 80+ year olds know about the needs of modern kids, teenagers, and young adults? Hell, many of them probably still think rent is like $50/month.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago

That’s not even the biggest concern; they’re not at all invested in the future because they’re not a part of it. Why would they care about any of the consequences the choices/actions they make now that we’ll be dealing with 20 years from now?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Yep, pretty much. They have no incentive to care about any of it really, because the vast majority of them will be long gone by then.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Even if it was like a decade or two, there needs to be a limit.

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