These Politicians Are WAY Too Old

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Why is there no maximum age to run for federal office when in the US Constitution there is a minimum age to run for federal office? Great question. Wonderful question. Perfect question. We have to change things, but in this country, we are so reluctant to touch that constitution, to touch that bill of rights. Oh, we don't wanna make amendments, and we've made it so difficult to even make amendments that it's virtually impossible. So why even bother? Because the constitution, by the way, was designed by the people who had power, and the people who had power and who have continued to have power have continuously made it difficult to amend the document that gives them their power. So you see how that works, right? We can't change it because the people who have the power to change it would be affected by the changes. They would lose their power by changing those powers.

That's why the document was crafted in the way it was by the men with power, and it's stayed that way through all this time. Now, maybe, maybe as some of these dinosaurs, you know, leave office or some of them, you know, even, uh, uh, uh, move on past this world, maybe we can get some younger folk in there. Maybe we can get some people who understand that we cannot just have these, you know, octogenarians and possibly even nonagenarians running this country. We need the people who are actually going to be impacted by the decisions that Congress makes to be running Congress. We need non millionaires to be making decisions about the rest of our financial security. We need people who have struggled. We need people that have gone in to buy groceries and have their debit card declined because they didn't have enough money. Those are the people I want serving in government, because those are people who have suffered. Those are people who understand the plight of average Americans. I've been there. I've had my debit card declined. I've been unable to buy prescription drugs because I simply can't afford it. I've been there, and I want people who understand that to be representing me in Congress instead of these, you know, trust fund babies or these millionaires who just decided to get into politics late in life after you'd made 120 million.

And I definitely want them out by a certain age, and not because I'm, I'm ageist or anything like that. I think those arguments are very stupid. But I do think that we need new people. I think we have to get rid of the so-called career politician. And I also understand that science clearly tells us that as we age, especially when we hit those, you know, seventies

And eighties, our brains do not function like they used to. I'm not saying that they all have dementia or, or, or a disease like Alzheimer's or anything, but your cognitive abilities do start to decline. That is human nature. That is science. That is biology, a g. And maybe we ought to make our laws based on fact instead of, well, we don't want to hurt the old people's feelings. Sorry. Sometimes feelings have to get a little bit hurt in order for us to do what's right in this country.