And those are the ones where generational change would be most important.
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Wait’ll they learn first hand about nurse-to-patient ratios and turnover at hospitals and nursing homes
"you're going to deal with my generation until until we die, and we gave Congress and the house Medicare for ourselves so we can be around until we die of something incurable."
The various generations are sick of hearing from older Democrats.
I want to retire some day. I want my representatives to share that value. If you're going to be above the social security retirement age at the start of a term in a political office, you are not qualified to that office. I'll support finishing out a term you have already started, but I am done voting for people who think it is important they work themselves into the fucking grave.
That's easy, Congress will just raise the retirement age. The oligarchy wants that age raised anyway.
Let the old candidates argue that the retirement age needs to rise, while the young candidates argue that it needs to be lowered. Watch what happens when AARP voters start supporting candidates who actually want to retire, instead of these goddamn workaholic fossils.
Waaaaaaasmbulance had been dispatched to the DNC
Do you just hit an age where you stop being able to comprehend you're out of touch? Is that going to happen to all of us? I feel out of touch all the time already and I'm nowhere near the Congressional average...
Do you just hit an age where you stop being able to comprehend you’re out of touch?
No. You start out being out of touch and lack of accountability makes it worse every year.
Source: old as dirt, but still in touch.
it happens when you decide to stop learning new things and revising your existing knowledge as society and science advance
Too fucking bad.. boo hoo.. Time for the fossils to GO!
(And I'm a 'boomer myself, and can't stand how out of touch and backwards looking most of my generation is.. GTFO you old coots! FFS buy some beer and rent a boat and go fishing and do something worthwhile with what time you have left!)
Term limits and age limits plz
Also kill Citizens United thx
kill Citizens
This is all they heard.
Term limits don't work.
Reversing Citizens United is a long haul. In the meantime, we need to find other ways of disrupting the dark money pipeline.
and some form of ranked voting.
And maybe some form of nation-wide recall systems to deal with the fettermans of the world.
Capital gains tax reform. Companies should reinvest in production and research, not stock buybacks and golden parachutes. This could also curb enshitification.
Slap a tax for any company whose ceo makes some percentage more than its core work force.
We can get all fancy on the math, but their pay is not commensurate to the value they bring
oh no the old fucks are "gearing up to push back" whatever will we do against their strongly worded letters
Oh the strongly worded letters are for when we want stuff. When it comes to entrenching geriatric rule for themselves, they'll use every trick in the book to hold on to power!
Establishment Dems need to make way for younger and more progressive incumbents. It's clear that they will continue to cling to power until they die before doing so though.
Then GTFO
Older Dems: we want younger people to be more engaged in politics, the more younger people that vote, the better we do.
The population: we want younger people to be Democrats instead of old people.
Older Dems: when we said we wanted younger people, we didn't mean like that.
By young they meant candidates that are only in their 60's
This is real, I’ve read articles about how Gen X is the next generation to fill government but come on…they’re in their 50’s+.
I’d love to see more government representation by people younger than 50, and who are far more in touch with the reality the working class has to face every day.
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Green and Menefee will go to a runoff in May. Green swatted away questions about the age factor on Wednesday, declaring, "I am generational change."
Yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and say when you find yourself paraphrasing mother fucking Emperor Palpatine it's time to stop being a senator
Maybe they should go away, then
Older Dem here, eagerly waiting generational change. Bring in AOC, bring in Bernie, bring in the Squad, I can't wait!
I wish Bernie had a 35 year old grandson that was exactly like he is, hair and all.
They sure do bug me for money a lot for people who don't like my opinion
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I’ve always wanted the age of government office to be tied to the average age of stroke/heart attack in your state. Your ass is out at that age unless you can bring that number up through comprehensive healthcare reform.
Edit: bring the age up. My brain is mush.
There ya go: tie it to real world factors.
I had "social security retirement age" as my criteria. I want to retire some day. I want a candidate who represents my interests.
I do not want a candidate with the same work/life balance expectations as my dickhead boss.
You mean up, right?
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You mean up?
Yes, I’m a dummy.
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