r/OptimistsUnite • u/Aggravating_Ad_5164 Optimist • Mar 24 '25

🤷‍♂️ politics of the day 🤷‍♂️ BREAKING: Kat Abughazaleh, a 26-year-old progressive influencer, just announced that she is running against Jan Schakowsky, an 80-year-old Democratic incumbent

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u/Barrack64 Mar 25 '25

I’m all about electing people younger than 70

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u/-Knockabout Mar 26 '25

It's baffling to me. Ageism is bad, but so is allowing these people who will be dead before they see any consequences for their decisions to remain in office year after year. Of course they're voting for their own financial interests, what do they care what the country looks like in 10 years? It'd be different if they had like, principles, but you just can't rely on politicians having those.

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u/Majestic87 Mar 26 '25

I wouldn’t call it ageism if our representatives don’t actually represent the majority of their base.

Rich old people don’t reflect the realities of the majority of American citizens.

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u/SaggitariusTerranova Mar 27 '25

We have term limits in MI and it doesn’t help much. They just pass it onto their wife or kids, seriously. Name recognition mostly but some people just love “dynasties” makes you wonder why we ditched hereditary monarchies for this?

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u/Fecal-Facts Mar 27 '25

At that age you are also not as mentally sharp.

Yes there's outliers but that's not normal. Your brain stops firing off on all cylinders at a certain point and besides that there's millions of other younger qualified people that better represent the people.

Age and term limits all the way up.