Dianne Feinstein is dead- we need term and age limits to serve in DC

What did Blaovoyevich do?

There are so few things 95+% of Americans agree on and I really feel like this is one of them.

It's wild to watch Feinstein for the last IDK 8 or so years.

RBG sullied her legacy by not retiring when she should have. It's her fault we have the red court we have and Roe was overturned.

McConnell freezing in press conference, just seems like elder abuse to trot him out there. Feinstein a human corpse, just awful.

regardless of how you feel about their politics, young vibrant leaders like Trudeau, Macron, Zelenskyy, Adern, Marin, Sunak just seem to engender more faith and confidence. Even Obama--you gotta admit, love him or hate him, we felt he was alert and up for the job. They have more energy. To be led by this retirement home is a national security issue at this point.

I agree with OP completely.

we don’t need age limits. People should just vote for somebody younger. This ain’t complicated.

When the primary and the party locks her in, there really isn't a real choice

I understand the intent, but access is a most critical aspect of lobbying. How do you propose to control an ex-legislator’s private behavior of introducing contacts to other contacts? There are any number of ways to structure the “lobbying consultant” relationship that make banning that near impossible.

Is there any country in the world that offers an anti-corruption model to keep its legislators middle class? How exactly does it work? It’s like telling the fox to guard the chicken coop.

I've often thought that we would do just as well, or perhaps better, by have public officials simply appointed (or at least offered an appointment) based on a lottery - basically how jury pools are formed. That way, we would not have folks specifically chosen as the most narcissistic, dishonest folks among us.

Think back to the folks who ran for class president in school. What did they have in common? Narcissism, giant egos, etc. Politicians are of the same ilk.

No schit, a high school education should be a requirement.
I don't think old people should be able to vote. They get too grumpy. Take the average live expectancy of men and women, subtract 18, and that's the last year you get to vote

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Yeah, good point. What I am thinking is that anybody who is not like me should not be allowed to vote.

Getting into debates being tied to donor money or the number of donations has nothing to do with socialism. When we use the word socialism to refer to anything we don't like we render the word meaningless. Below is the typical definition of socialism

a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.

no one would say a man should resign because he died

but seriously, pelosi is as aold or older than all these doddering people and i dont think even her biggest critics would deny that she's extremely sharp. our gerontocracy is concerning, but idk if an age limit makes sense when there's such a huge range of what people are like at 80

Nobody knows!

I agree with you that they are too old but as others have said the voters keep electing them, so term limits only seek to disenfranchise those voters.

The bigger issue is that the Post War generation (78-95 yo) experienced the poverty of the depression/war era. They are damaged beyond repair by these events and cannot let go for a second in fear that everything will go away (their prosperity). So, these people die in office while collecting aluminum cans for the nickel refund. But by not ceding their positions to the you get generations (a la Washington) who are waiting and waiting and waiting to “get theirs.” However, the time is so short for these people that they are grossly and outwardly corrupt doing whatever they can get away with.

Our only hope is that the Post War generation die soon, the Xers get on drugs and that the Millennials can balance duty and economy.

The qualifications for office are stated in the Constitution.

It would require an Amendment to change them.

The real question is whether or not he was doping

No we do not need age limits. Although I am in favor of term limits it is not going to be a panacea.

What we need is a better educated and informed voter base. People of California chose to vote for Feinstein on deaths door. Is an age limit suddenly going to make Californian's vote for someone better? They'll just get some moron, ala Kamala Harris, who is younger. Would an age limit have stopped Pennsylvanian's voting in a senator who had a stroke and can't string together a complete sentence. This is a voter issue and unless voters take it on themselves to better informed whatever clever idea you think you have that will revolutionize the system; age limits, term limits, ranked choice voting, etc will make no difference.

Anyone see this nonsense? I'd rather have Barbara Lee, who is 77, than this trick. This is part of the reason why people go for older candidates. The younger ones can't be taken seriously.

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Meghan 'considers run for office' to fill seat of California senator

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It may come as no surprise that Meghan Markle's (pictured) name was being bandied about in Hollywood last night as a long-shot replacement for Californian Senator Dianne Feinstein .

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I totally agree. These old fossils get corrupted by big money and special interests. Those interests then donate tons of money to rotten apples like Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy (both of whom are Democrats in practice), making it hard for challengers to win elections. So new blood and new ideas - ideas/policies that most Americans support - are blocked out by these old/corrupt incumbents.

Yeah. Because the younger folks are certainly not corrupted by big money and special interests.

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