Comments by "" (@TheHuxleyAgnostic) on "Should There Be a Maximum Age for President?" video.

  1.  @afkav3m3  Yeah, but then you'd also have to keep replacing the ones you've gotten in, when their term limit is up, as you're trying to add more progressives elsewhere. Presidential term limits was a right wing idea, because they think it benefits them. An age cap, on the other hand, could have negated having Reagan or Trump as presidents.
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  2. There should be a max age for all positions of government, including adminstration, congress, and judicial. Would hate to see Bernie go, but they should all retire at 70.
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  3.  @donnewton7858  Right wingers added the presidential term limits after FDR was elected for 4 terms.
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  4.  @meee9660  Yeah, but a 70 age cap would also have meant no Reagan, no Trump, mean no McConnell, no Pelosi, it would clear scotus seats, etc. Bernie could still lead a movement, and help find and bring in newcomers, to try and fill those seats that would open up.
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  5.  @afkav3m3  It would be tough constantly having to find good progressive replacements, for all seats. Having a retirement age would help get rid of the old ones who don't seem to care about the future, though (with a few exceptions).
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  6.  @wvu05  How would adding a maximum age be any more "anti-democratic" than having a minimum age? Most jobs have a retirement age. It doesn't much matter how good of a campaign you run in some areas. Voters are likely going to vote a certain way. There are complete morons winning elections, in places.
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  7.  @wvu05  Most states have a mandatory retirement for judges. Kind of odd to retire those who interpret the law, but not those who create the laws. There are a number of other government jobs with mandatory retirement. Also odd to force retire generals, but not the ones telling generals what to do. Odd to force retire older intelligence agents, but not the ones telling them what to do. Out in the private sector, the majority of people over 50 feel like they were forced out of jobs they wouldn't have retired from, and are now in jobs they didn't particularly want, for less money. There are plenty of contracts that conveniently run out at a certain age. Businesses all over find ways to get people to retire, if they really want them to. And most people do get the hell out by the time they're 65. The original "democracy", in Ancient Greece, much like the US' original "democracy", only included only landowning males, not women, not non landowners, not slaves ... various restrictions might make a democratic system more, or less, democratic, but it doesn't completely abandon it. The US already isn't a direct democracy. That doesn't make it completely "anti-democratic". Most democracies aren't. The US is less democratic than a number of countries, due to gerrymandering, the senate, the electoral college, disenfranchisement, and voter suppression. Doesn't make them completely "anti-democratic". Completely "anti-democratic" is trying to overthrow the democratic process, to keep an unelected ruler in power, like what Republicans tried to do. An age limit is more democratic than a term limit. You could have as many terms as you want, up until a certain age. There's a minimum age for both running and voting. Automobile accidents increasing again at higher age categories, and it's not because they're careless, like many teenage drivers. It's because cognitive decline starts setting in. At 65, 15-20% of people are experiencing some kind of mild cognitive decline. By 70, average cognitive scores are dropping below those of 25 year olds, who aren't allowed to run for many positions. Do you think Bernie's hospital visit, and heart stents, put a bit of a damper on his campaign and gave the opposition some ammo? Would have been nice if he started running for president, become a household name, and have his policies part of mainstream conversations, decades ago. Maybe he would have, if he had known he wouldn't be able to later. And, for every Bernie, who still seems to have his wits about him, how many Trumps or Bidens, who seem to have, at least, some mild cognitive impairments ... how many Dianne Feinsteins or Reagans, who had more ... how many congress members taking Alzheimers medication? Or, how many that simply want to return to the 1950s, that they thought it was awesome? Bernie just happened to be on the right side of most things, all along. Many have been on the wrong side of things all along, and are entrenched. An age limit might not get you something much better out of McConnell's district, but it might get you something more progressive out of Pelosi's, or Feinstein's, once the seat is freed up.
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