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We already have age limits at the lower end. Why are people so against age limits at the upper end?

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To answer your question, most people aren't against age limits. But the elderly are the single strongest voting population and the people already in power won't do anything against their own interest without significant voter follow through.

Everyone is for age limits until they would be affected.

I hope I have the wherewithal to maintain my convictions at that age. Perhaps that's naivete, but I never became conservative, either.

I'm still ardently pro-youth and against exclusion even at almost 40; I would like to believe I'll still be for age caps when I'm old. Like actual old. I know I'm already fuckin' old. You know what I mean.

I've got over a decade on you, and if anything I'm further left and more pro age-limits than I've ever been in my life.

Ditto. I recognize my cognitive slide from even 10 years ago... And Mitch has decades on me... I also realize that the older my kids have gotten, the more out of touch I've become.... These fossils dinner gaf though... Having strokes on live tv won't even stop them.

Because the elderly don't work, so they can vote while everyone else is busy propping up the economy they built.

We should move to a system where votes are weighted based on age. Up to, say, 40 years of age your vote has a weight of 1.0. Above 40 the weight should reduce linearly each year until it reaches 0.1 at the age that equals the current life expectancy. Basically: the closer you are to death the shorter you are affected by the consequences of your votes, so you should have less influence. Older people are probe to short term thinking as they won’t live to see the long term effects anyway.

Ah, Dred Scott vs Sanford raises its ugly head again.

When you get old enough to be worth 0.6, shall we call it “3/5” just for old times’ sake? As a compromise?