• @Gammelfisch@lemmy.world
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    356 months ago

    Term and age limits for all elected politicians serving all levels. Two terms and 65 is the maximum age to enter the election. In addition, get rid of the Electoral College.

    The union members who voted for Putin’s Sock Puppet do not realize the damage they are going inflict on the US blue-collar sector.

    • @DicJacobus@lemmy.world
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      146 months ago

      America’s fate is sealed, the country we’ve known, flaws and all is done. Before it was an Oligarchy pretending to be a Democratic Republic, Now its just going to stop pretending, America’s going to resemble Russia in the 90s for a bit as the country gets carved up by corporate interests and gangsters in suits

        • @DicJacobus@lemmy.world
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          66 months ago

          America’s slide into fascism isn’t at the top of my problems list. seeing as I’m not American. I’m more concerned with the general “America is turning hostile against its allies, and friendly towards enemies of the free world like Russia”.

        • @Jax@sh.itjust.works
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          -26 months ago

          Come on, you know the answer to that question.

          They’ve got tendies in the oven, fighting is hard

    • @demizerone@lemmy.world
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      86 months ago

      Term limits mean the only people left in washing that understand the system are lobbyists and consultants. As for age, there should be twice annual fitness tests after the age of 65. There are some geezers that are still very capable mentally.

      • @WoodScientist@lemmy.world
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        36 months ago

        Any system based on medical or intellectual tests is doomed to fail. There’s a reason we had to end literacy tests. Any test has to have people that design, administer, and grade the test. Age limits are a crude and blunt instrument, but there is a reason we use them for other matters of politics in the early stages of life. We have a voting age, not a voting competency test. And we have minimum ages for House, Senate, and Presidency eligibility. Yes, you could try to write qualifying exams for these positions, but the history of literary tests shows how that would go. Age is a crude instrument, but it is objective. You were born on certain day, and assuming accurate public records, that is a fact that isn’t open to interpretation. It is clear and unambiguous.

        An age limit for high offices makes perfect sense. If we can have minimum ages, we can have maximum ages. And any argument for why maximum ages won’t work would also apply to minimum ages, yet our constitution is based on minimum ages, not fuzzy ability tests.

      • @finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        You have a moronic take. I understand the federal government’s inner workings better than Trump and I’ve served 0 terms as president.

    • ZeroOne
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      -36 months ago

      What’s wrong with damaging US economy ? For one, No more proxy wars