• cum@lemmy.cafe
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    1 year ago

    How about age limits for government officials as well? Or at least the senate. The grandma at the tax form place in city hall is ok even if she a bit slow.

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      1 year ago

      personally think it’s less a problem with age. age limits are arbitrary and likely have no basis in science (within reason). however i do think it could be advantageous to require a variety of ages of people, and somehow weight their input, but that process may destroy the inherent value of a representative democracy; if we let everyone speak nothing will get done.

      personally i think hard term limits and ranked choice voting would fix the majority of issues caused by generational gaps.