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Trump Cognitively Declines In Front Of The World During Meet With NATO Leader
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We need age limits for all held positions, and term limits for congress.
We should tie a mandatory government retirement age to Medicare or social security eligibility so there's some pressure to keep it below 80.
It's wild that people aren't expected to work at his age and in a lot of cases aren't allowed to drive anymore. But here is this decrepit old cunt steering the world backward into ruin.
Cognitive tests from a third party would be beneficial too.
I mean, the President and Executive have two separate and independent, third parties who are responsible for checks and balances against them, and look where that’s gotten us.
They’re all corruptible.
True.
I think it would be great if we set the age limit to be tied to a percentage of the average expected lifespan of the country's citizens in some way. Setting a hard age limit wouldn't be adaptive enough.
It would incentivize them to pass legislation and regulations which help increase everyone's life expectancy. It would also somewhat help in the case of a future where some medical advances allow only those with enough money to have insanely increased lifespans.
Term limits have been implemented in many places and have not achieved better governance anywhere. They're another "obvious" solution that isn't worth shit in practice, like multi-party versus two-party electoral systems.
And age limits are just anti-democratic. I know a few old farts who are better qualitified to hold office than their younger rivals. Voters should choose, not some arbitrary rule.
Term limits for legislative bodies is, and always has been, a dumb idea.
You need a constitutional amendment to impose age limits on offices.
This is the electorate's fault; the electorate needs to fix it.
A lot of hate for this, but it's true.
Incumbents aren't to blame for voters picking the familiar, that's a symptom of another problem.
We're seeing what an inexperienced government looks like now. They don't know the limitations they're supposed to have, and they don't care.
They know exactly what their limits are supposed to be and they do care. They care about dismantling those limits and seizing permanent, unbridled power.
I mean, it prevents people pursuing political positions as a permanent job. Which is how corruption happens.
It's much easier to pay off a permanant term SC judge with a "gift" of a Bus than it is to approach a newly appointed one with the same idea.
Term limits unquestionably help in eliminating corruption as it guarantees corruption is not only harder to accomplish the first time, but is flushed away with the end of each term.
Corruption happens when people have their footing in politics long enough to tear at the seams. They can't do that if they never find their footing.
That's not true. People who are politicians for life have incentives to not be corrupt since it can end their career. A term limited politician has an incentive to trade favors for an executive position after their last term.
No offense, this is an incredibly naive take that is easily disproven by the current US president and the decades of documented corruption he's practiced in the open that did done nothing to falter his career. He has 34 felonies. He was going to trial for the largest breach of US intelligence in the history of our country.
He was then elected president anyway.
Social media has made the concept of political accountability into an impossibility. Any "career-ending" behavior can just be lied about on social media, turned into a firehouse of disinfo, then bots & supporters eat it up.
Without term limits, people just need to be popular enough to get elected once - then they can use their position for personal gain for as long as they can lie about it in some way. (Forever with AI now).
I could gesture in any direction in the world and end up pointing to a country this is happening to right now.
Term limits ensures that you always have a new incompetence congress finding their footing before being replaced by new newbies forever out of step.
Also it can simultaneously be true that term limits increase corruption and we at present are fully incapable of reigning in corruption of any kind because we are bad immoral people on average. Your position is like arguing that cigs don't kill you because your presently already dying of liver cancer right now.
Nope. My position is quite literally that we should limit the amount of cigarettes we smoke so we don't develop cancer.
Maybe a pack a week?
Or a single 12 year term for each Supreme Court justice?
As proof I've simply pointed to how we have completely failed to limit terms in the Supreme Court and now very much have fascist cancer because of it. (Supreme Court going full MAGA and ignoring due process).
You are making this much harder to understand than it needs to be.