Over three-fourths of Americans think there should be a maximum age limit for elected officials, according to a CBS News/YouGov survey.

  • krakenx@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This age discrimination is a clever right wing ploy to remove Bernie from office and to hurt Biden’s re-election. And I can tell from the responses here and in real life that it’s working.

    There are plenty of people on the right who are willing to stooge exactly like McConnell does, but highly principled lifelong public servants with almost no skeletons in their closet like Bernie are pretty much impossible to replace.

    In any matchup against Biden, besides Trump, age favours the GOP. In a matchup between Trump and Biden, they are both the same age, but since the media has been using Biden’s stutter and unflattering video cuts to make him look senile, it still favours Trump.

    Ultimately people need to stop voting for bad people, especially ones have already proven that they do a bad job, regardless of their age.

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      1 year ago

      Generational generalizations are an effective way of dividing the populous.

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        1 year ago

        No one does…

        Bernie himself says he’s too old, and his entire purpose is to build up the next generation.

        It’s just Bernie is the one example people have to try and get people to be against this.

        There’s a shit ton of elderly conservatives and moderates in office, but there’s only one elderly progressive. So that’s why people immediately throw him out there.