Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "Why is The World Run by Old People?" video.

  1. Obama is our youngest living president being born in 1961, meaning the age gap between all the other guys could make any one of them his teenage dad
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  2. I would support Reps and Senators to be eligible only three times consecutively, then be forced to seek some other office or go do something else entirely.
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  3. Which is getting less relevant as technology and more nuanced historical studies renders that senior "wisdom" obsolete if not proven mistaken. Really their main advantage is the ability to relate to each other in person, having grown up in a more physically connected environment without the remoteness of the internet and the disruption of community-breaking globalized capitalism.
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  4. Winner-take-all voting naturally results in two parties: the one victor, and the lot of all losers. Yet moderating alternatives like ranked-choice polls are exactly what's being preemptively banned by GOP-run states.
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  5. It's also they're mostly retired, so they have all day to get politically indoctrinated by mass media and wait in line at the polls, taking advantage of pro-traditionalist politics that make voting deliberately inconvenient to working adults with their more "disruptive" progressivist ideas.
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  6. Is it at least entertaining, like in Taiwan where they have constant fistfights only to break for a Legislative Yuan?
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  7. ​ @BlindedByLogic Father Time isn't a spring chicken himself, especially being bribed by the senior care paid by retirees cashing out the massive equity off their then-affordable homes, often paid by corporations rather than young adults who actually need a place for themselves.
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