Age Caps for Congress

[DGS49]

Regardless of any time or age limits, or how they come about, current office holders would be "grandfathered," and the limits would only apply to candidates going forward.

No matter what age you choose, there will be sterling examples of older politicians whose exclusion would be a significant loss to the country.

Perversely, the best term limits are those imposed by the voters, who must decide for themselves whether the candidate can continue, but the voters are idiots. Indeed approximately half of American voters would have voted for Joe Biden despite irrefutable evidence that he was (is) incompetent.

I have the distinct impression that if the Founders had even imagined that Congressmen might serve long enough to expect a [fcuking] PENSION(!), they would have imposed term limits at the very beginning.

For me, it's twelve years total: two terms in the Senate or 6 in the House - 12 years aggregate max.

 

[EdwinAMartin]

No age restrictions, no term limits. They directly interfere with voters rights to elect whoever they think best, period. Don't like who gets elected, vote against them, pretty simple.

Want better candidates? Get better voters. Literacy and civics tests would be a start, as would English only ballots.

 

[EdwinAMartin]

You ever try to explain AI or socail media to a 75 year old? With such matters often the focus of legislation, it would help to have someone who grew up using a computer, is used to the predatory nature of hackers, scammers, etc...

You trying to pretend you're all techy n shit' and sophisticated n stuff? Most younger people today just memorize what buttons to push, and have zero clue as to how anything works, including you.

 

[EdwinAMartin]

Perversely, the best term limits are those imposed by the voters,

^^^ This.

If youth was better, then AOC would be a comparative genius, instead of a fluff-headed clown act. Literacy and civics tests would have eliminated most of her voter base right off the bat.