Over three-fourths of Americans think there should be a maximum age limit for elected officials, according to a CBS News/YouGov survey.
I’m 62, which is embarrassingly old to be effing around on the fediverse.
But I just want to say these octogenarians can’t possibly represent me.
It’s partly their age.
But to me wealth is the more corrupting factor. Some of these people have never had a real job, or at least in decades.
I’m both hoping to work until I’m 70 or die sooner.
These rich assholes can’t represent anyone except other rich assholes.
Fediverse skews older than traditional social media from what I’ve seen.
Yeah I’m realizing the fediverse feels so homey because it seems dominated by people old enough to remember the internet of the 90s, the ones that knew AOL was not the entire internet or even ‘web’ proper. We’re already acclimated to an internet where ‘discoverability’ took a little more elbow grease.
Instead of and age limit, I think there should be a maximum sexual assault limit. Like if someone was found either civilly liable or criminally convicted of sexual assault 1 or more times, then they should be disqualified for any office.