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Question from Reddit
May. 1st, 2020 01:40 amSince there's a minimum age requirement, how would you feel about implementing a maximum age limit on running for president?
Personally I think the lower limit should be 30 for President, and the upper limit should be 50 for being elected. If you get elected at 50, you can stay your whole 4 year term. But old people are on the way out, it's not their world anymore once they die, so they don't have to care about what they leave behind, as proven by the many geezers in office who screw us over on a daily basis. I think that upper limit of 50 needs to apply to all public office, because old people have shown they don't care about anything but themselves. There are exceptions like Bernie Sanders, but a few exceptions aren't worth the risk.
For similar reasons, I think if you earn or are worth more than a million dollars in money/assets to your name, that you should be banned from running for any and all public office. Sell some of your stuff or give up enough income to qualify and you can run. And if you own any part of a corporation, no matter how small a corporation it may be, you need to sell it to someone you're not friends or family with before you can even be allowed to run for office of any kind. Because being wealthy is a far surer sign that you don't give a damn about anything but yourself than old age is. There are plenty of exceptions among the older generations, but nobody wealthy truly cares about anything but their own greed and/or having good PR.
Also, politicians should not be allowed to vote on their own pay increases; that sort of thing should be taken to the people, voted on by popular vote. And any law that will affect nature needs to be somehow sent to be vetoed by the people; Donald Trump has been doing his utmost to gut national parks for resources, and that can never be allowed to happen again.
(And also abolish the electoral college and implement an entirely paper ballot voting system that not only lets you vote for people but also against others, but that's a whole other post.)
Personally I think the lower limit should be 30 for President, and the upper limit should be 50 for being elected. If you get elected at 50, you can stay your whole 4 year term. But old people are on the way out, it's not their world anymore once they die, so they don't have to care about what they leave behind, as proven by the many geezers in office who screw us over on a daily basis. I think that upper limit of 50 needs to apply to all public office, because old people have shown they don't care about anything but themselves. There are exceptions like Bernie Sanders, but a few exceptions aren't worth the risk.
For similar reasons, I think if you earn or are worth more than a million dollars in money/assets to your name, that you should be banned from running for any and all public office. Sell some of your stuff or give up enough income to qualify and you can run. And if you own any part of a corporation, no matter how small a corporation it may be, you need to sell it to someone you're not friends or family with before you can even be allowed to run for office of any kind. Because being wealthy is a far surer sign that you don't give a damn about anything but yourself than old age is. There are plenty of exceptions among the older generations, but nobody wealthy truly cares about anything but their own greed and/or having good PR.
Also, politicians should not be allowed to vote on their own pay increases; that sort of thing should be taken to the people, voted on by popular vote. And any law that will affect nature needs to be somehow sent to be vetoed by the people; Donald Trump has been doing his utmost to gut national parks for resources, and that can never be allowed to happen again.
(And also abolish the electoral college and implement an entirely paper ballot voting system that not only lets you vote for people but also against others, but that's a whole other post.)