▲ 177 ▼ Are Old People Ruining American Democracy? (www.nytimes.com) submitted 1 month ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to c/politics@lemmy.world 140 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] EvergreenGuru@lemmy.world 1 point 1 month ago (1 child) No, we literally need to enforce a retirement age on elected offices. You can’t run once you hit retirement age. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago (2 children) Nah. Could not disagree more. The generational warfare stuff is such bullshit. Most especially as people are living longer and longer. We need people that have a longer view in there for sure. Older people - with the right amount of empathy and insight - have a lot to offer, especially if they have kids and grandkids. Pushing people out prematurely is rather stupid, if you ask me. I'd be okay with lowering the age requirements for certain offices - at least where most people have a fully-developed PFC, anyway. In addition, there would be a huge benefit if more effort was put into raising up more leaders within the party, etc. More of a pipeline and more handoffs so there is not some big disconnect, but more of a continuity. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] EvergreenGuru@lemmy.world 1 point 1 month ago The party should not decide. When the party decides, they work for big business and undermine the democratic process. Politicians should be chosen by voters who elect them. In the case of recent presidential primaries the party has put their thumb on the scale to undermine voters. The party establishment is the problem. They even failed to remove Biden from running for a second term. He had to drop out after a donor pulled funding. This showed that the people in charge of the party are not the politicians, but the donors. It was pathetic and the party should be treated as an extension of their rich donors. I don’t have a billion dollars, do you? permalink fedilink source parent [–] almost_genocide@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago Could not disagree more. The generational warfare stuff is such bullshit. Then tell the Boomers that. They've been waging it for decades now. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago (2 children) Nah. Could not disagree more. The generational warfare stuff is such bullshit. Most especially as people are living longer and longer. We need people that have a longer view in there for sure. Older people - with the right amount of empathy and insight - have a lot to offer, especially if they have kids and grandkids. Pushing people out prematurely is rather stupid, if you ask me. I'd be okay with lowering the age requirements for certain offices - at least where most people have a fully-developed PFC, anyway. In addition, there would be a huge benefit if more effort was put into raising up more leaders within the party, etc. More of a pipeline and more handoffs so there is not some big disconnect, but more of a continuity. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] EvergreenGuru@lemmy.world 1 point 1 month ago The party should not decide. When the party decides, they work for big business and undermine the democratic process. Politicians should be chosen by voters who elect them. In the case of recent presidential primaries the party has put their thumb on the scale to undermine voters. The party establishment is the problem. They even failed to remove Biden from running for a second term. He had to drop out after a donor pulled funding. This showed that the people in charge of the party are not the politicians, but the donors. It was pathetic and the party should be treated as an extension of their rich donors. I don’t have a billion dollars, do you? permalink fedilink source parent [–] almost_genocide@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago Could not disagree more. The generational warfare stuff is such bullshit. Then tell the Boomers that. They've been waging it for decades now. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] EvergreenGuru@lemmy.world 1 point 1 month ago The party should not decide. When the party decides, they work for big business and undermine the democratic process. Politicians should be chosen by voters who elect them. In the case of recent presidential primaries the party has put their thumb on the scale to undermine voters. The party establishment is the problem. They even failed to remove Biden from running for a second term. He had to drop out after a donor pulled funding. This showed that the people in charge of the party are not the politicians, but the donors. It was pathetic and the party should be treated as an extension of their rich donors. I don’t have a billion dollars, do you? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] almost_genocide@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago Could not disagree more. The generational warfare stuff is such bullshit. Then tell the Boomers that. They've been waging it for decades now. permalink fedilink source parent