cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45996578
Democratic members of Congress know they have an age problem—and it’s hurting them.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45996578
Democratic members of Congress know they have an age problem—and it’s hurting them.
Yeah like 64 is an age when you still have some umph and you’re not totally old.
That might be true, but as someone less than half that age I sure as fuck do not want a 64 year old representing me in Congress.
64 is basically ceiling in my opinion. Like my Dad was pretty good at that age and was still planning all sorts of stuff. But I agree, the future is for the young so the government should be younger. Probably a retiree representative should exist to represent old people for a couple of years at a time, but the rest of the government should be young capable people.
You’re telling me I’ll still have some umph when I’m 64 - that you’ll still need me, that you’ll still feed me?
Hard to believe from here in the run-up to it, seems like I’m picking up speed on the back side of the hill…
My dad was Just fine until his 70’s.
My dad is pushing 80 and still doing o.k. - not super great, but I hope to be doing as well when I get there.
My mom’s dad was on all kinds of blood pressure meds, and they mentally aged him prematurely - after a decade of the slowly gathering fog they changed up the meds and it was literally like they reset his mind to what it was 10 years earlier.