Vote for YIMBY policies in local elections to correct housing supply.
We need to vote out these half-dead cockroach parasites to have any semblance of hope for the future.
Sorry, we have silent generation mfs in there?
Yeah they speak out loud on behalf of our generation
Biden is Silent Generation
Biden is currently the oldest US president in history. Trump and Reagan are second and third, respectively.
Insane
The best person in the Senate is Silent
Gotta love that those closest to death are determining how we will live in the future.
Astonishing that there are nearly as many Silent Generation hangers on than there are millenials in Congress.
It's a huge conflict of interest when you think about it deeply. They have no vestment for the future.
The fuck is silent? The walking corpses like Pelosi and mcconnel?
Bernie Fucking Sanders, the best person in the Senate
Who still refuses to call the genocide a genocide even now.
Does anyone in the Senate clear that bar? There's no reason to be ageist about it.
Did you accidentally respond to the wrong post?
We need a violent revolution to have any chance of a future.
Fify
Designated survivor style. Need a complete reset at this point
This kind of change is really going to depend on voting.
House members are voted/elected every 2 years, and Senate members every 6 years. But there is no re-election limitation on how many times they can be re-elected, except in losing to someone who gets more votes than them, I think.
We do need term limits, and we do need to regularly keep new candidates rotating in so there's no potential for corruption to unfold. And if someone is doing well enough, they can serve for up to a few years (limit the terms accordingly - House members at 4 years/2 terms may be enough, or worth considering to expand out a little more; Senate members at 12 years/2 terms feels perfectly fine to mine, though).
Term limits won’t matter you’d just get a new corporate owned shill to replace the last one while the guy retiring will go into “consulting” or “lobbying” or both.
You need to replace the whole system with a different one that doesn’t prioritise money, where corruption especially the legalised version (lobbying) would be banned and carry at the very least a heavy prison sentence,
To do this you also need the right to recall (the people who is elected can be removed at any time by a vote of no confidence out forth by their constituents) and political campaigning and the attached fundraising needs to be curtailed if not outright abolished thus preventing the bullshit factory (media) from being able to skew the vote one way or another towards their loyal shill
If there are age minimums, there should also be age maximums.
It's not their age. It's their corruption. They serve their donors first, and only. The people are an afterthought, at best. Donors = weapons manufacturers, health insurance companies, wall street banks, and of course AIPAC.
Old or young, you have to ask: "Who is funding their campaigns?"
If you look at these numbers vs. population demographics it's heavily skewed (ie. Greater than 4X Silent Generation, 2.6X Boomer, 1.5X Gen X to % of pop, with 3X fewer Millennials).
Very representative of the public with disproportionate education/networth/age vs. actual average/median.
Glad to see gen z is 0% accounted for and people ask why don’t votr
Because there have always been age minimums. Nearly no one in Genz can serve in the House, and zero in the Senate
This chart is from January 2021. The House now has 1 Gen Z member, Maxwell Frost of Florida’s 10th Congressional District, who has been serving since Jan 2023
That's a fucking cool ass name for a congressmen
Well, given your username, I can see why you’re partial to his name
Mayhaps
This chart is from January 2021. The House now has 1 Gen Z member, Maxwell Frost of Florida’s 10th Congressional District, who has been serving since Jan 2023
The US senate: Old people making decisions about young people’s futures, based on a world that no longer exists… and doing it poorly.
Based on the current Hypergamy "dumpster fire" state of the Millennial Dating market - Even if the Millennials took over, those who took power would just direct the funnels to their own pockets and they won't help the generation AT ALL.
Just like War.. Basic Human Greed Never changes..
we need to ditch the whole system and rebuild from scratch. We're playing with rules that are hundreds of years old, created in a time that lacked the knowledge, morality, and technology that we have today
go ahead and scrap anyone in a suit who wants this thing to persist
Data from a year ago: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/02/07/the-changing-face-of-congress/
If the people we replace them with take money from corporations, billionaires and PACs, I don't see much changing regardless of age as they will still serve the same master and it's not "we the people".
1000% agree.
Congress deserves minimum wage
Can we leave out dehumanizing language? I don't see why we can't just say, "vote out these rich, entitled, out-of-touch plutocrat assholes."
I don't think we should call people cockroaches. Not a good habit to get into.
Silents, Boomers and Gen X gotta go!!!
Gen X are people in their 40s and 50s. Most voters in that demographic are just as fucked as those that came after, especially those of us in our mid to early 40s.
It's not age, it's mindset. Gen X are often as bad as boomers in that regard.
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