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soonerpgh t1_j94pp91 wrote

I'm not young, but I'm a lot younger than most of the politicians these days. I do not understand how we have allowed this to become the norm. We all know old people don't like or want anything to change. We also know that we need a LOT of change. Why do we keep voting in the Rest-Home Crew?

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LBobRife t1_j94swhy wrote

Obama was elected quite young. Clinton too. Bush was elected at a relatively normal age. It's just the last two that have been exceedingly old.

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soonerpgh t1_j94tkfi wrote

I'll m not just referring to Presidents. Look at our Congress... we have very few of them under 60 and many of them over 70.

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LBobRife t1_j94uh3k wrote

The house actually got younger with the most recent election. It tends to go in waves. It takes a while to get enough credibility to get elected Senator, which is why the median age is 59. I wouldn't say that is a ridiculous age. There are of course outliers that should retire, but on the whole Congress isn't all extremely elderly.

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[deleted] t1_j94uinq wrote

It's because young people don't vote, particularly in congressional, state and local elections. Local positions are way more powerful than people realize.

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dbeman t1_j95gnao wrote

Case in point…we had a tie in our ward for state senate in November and the runoff is this coming week. There is an obscene amount of money being spent on this election because control of the state senate is at stake.

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