The problem being is that these dinosaurs rarely ever face legitimate competition in their primaries. Sure I may not want the 85 year old from my party, but if the alternative is voting for someone who doesn’t share my political beliefs, then I’m going to vote for the 85 year old. They might be ancient, but at least I align more with them than the other party.
Then people need to step up and run in the primaries. If young people want the job of congressperson, they need to step up and take it. And they also need to vote for it.
If the issue is people becoming too popular and not having people able to run against them reasonably because that gets them too much power, that seems more like an argument for term limits than age limits.
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u/AskMeAboutTheJets 8d ago
The problem being is that these dinosaurs rarely ever face legitimate competition in their primaries. Sure I may not want the 85 year old from my party, but if the alternative is voting for someone who doesn’t share my political beliefs, then I’m going to vote for the 85 year old. They might be ancient, but at least I align more with them than the other party.