Our laws already exclude young people for nothing else than presumed inability, regardless of demonstrations of actual ability.

And yet we have no laws excluding the geriatric, even in cases of demonstrated inability.

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

Politicians should be required to resign if they hit retirement age. We already require airline pilots to retire, why not the people leading the country as well

I think age limits are an option but are not really going after the root of the problem, nor are they a good solution. Our arguments that the elderly can't represent the youth can be made the other way just the same.

One one end, the districts are too large, so you end up with the shit show we have. You don't end up with local communities voting on who reflects that community best. It squeezes out any opportunity for third parties.

Secondly (Don't get attached to the people in this, the argument carries to any party/district), the democratic party will not allow AOC to run for Schumer's post. There's no supported way to ask the electorate if they would like a changing of the guard. Suggesting to primary someone who has been as successful as Schumer or McConnell would be political suicide. So you're stuck voting for Schumer/McConnell, even if you would prefer the youth candidate... in the NY example, Schumer still gets the votes and the party keeps supporting him. It's a blue seat and that matters more than getting "accurate" representation. I'd push for doing ranked choice primaries for all federal positions.

TL;DR -- smaller districts. New parties. Encourage (or mandate?) primaries against incumbents.

The same is true for Japan. Our leaders are completely out of touch, to the point that the minister tasked with Cybersecurity never even owned a smartphone. He'd been using an old flip phone.

Apart from an age limit, term limits need to be installed for any position of power, whether that's political, economical or judicial functions. Worldwide.

Humans are never to be trusted. Power corrupts.