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by nomadygnt 258 days ago
Which really makes you wonder how well the system is really working. Of course I don’t know this but I feel like if you asked everyone, the majority of people would say that 95, or 90, or 85 is too old to be in congress. But somehow they keep getting reelected…
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Incumbents have an enormous advantage. We would need publicly funded elections in order to change this.
Almost like people vote in people of similar age. Baby boomers was the largest generation far larger than the preceding and later generation.