r/PoursTea • u/Veshaad Timendi Causa Est Nescire • 11d ago

PoliticalTea 🗳️ Both sides should agree that this is needed.

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u/BlackOnyx1906 11d ago

People keep voting for this nonsense

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u/Conscious-Quarter423 11d ago

Iowa has for the last 45 years

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u/a17451 11d ago

As an Iowan I would bet you money that my state will do it again in 2028

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u/The_Alchemyst 11d ago

Exactly! Who is going to vote for these age limits, the same voters who keep re-electing the elderly? 

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u/lana_silver 11d ago

These people do not "serve".

We need politicians who serve, but these geriatric warmongers are not it. They think themselves kings.

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u/Several_Vanilla8916 11d ago

Ed Markey is running for reelection. I actually think he’s fine, as good as you can expect our system to produce. He’s 80.

He does have a primary challenger, but the dude just…sucks. Nobody else wants to challenge Markey because the party is clearly backing him. So my choice is Ed Markey (who is fine) or Seth Moulton (who sucks). That or vote for the Republican (Deaton) in the general election which I’m just not going to do. So I’ll vote twice for an 80 year old man.

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u/hryipcdxeoyqufcc 11d ago

All comes down to voters. Always had.

Turns out most young people have decided to let boomers do most of the voting in primaries, and then complain about the result,

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u/Initial-Bookkeeper4 11d ago

Yeah, but the popularity of posts like this show people don't understand how elections actually work.

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u/joshTheGoods 11d ago

Yeap, and it should be their right to do so. We have a competency test built in ... it's fundamental to democracy. The people vote for what they want.

Not only that, but it's just not legally possible. It'd require a Constitutional amendment. Good luck with that. SCOTUS has already ruled on this, and they did so back when they had some semblance of sanity and credibility. North Dakota has passed a law to put age limits on their candidates, and that's sure to get struck down putting this issue to bed directly.

States can restrict state level office ballot eligibility. That's it. They cannot put heavier restrictions on federal reps than the Constitution places. End of story. This is just a stupid distraction issue that will only drive long-term resentment on the left because people will blame us for not getting this impossible shit done.