Presidential age limit

Politics
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Ageism is not an arbitrary form of discrimination like racism, when it is employed in a fact based manner.

And dementia is not the be all and end of all of aging.

The FACT is that all humans experience cognitive decline beyond the age of 45.

While they experience it at vastly different rates, they all experience it in some form.

The FACT is that many people have significant loss of cognition beyond age 70.

We retire Federal law enforcement at age 57.

We retire single pilot aircraft pilots at age 60.

We retire multi pilot aircraft pilots at age 65.

Then we must consider the nature of the office of the President of the United States. The President is required to address and respond to all sorts of crises at any time. He may ultimately be required to set in motion a full scale nuclear strike or anything short of that.

The office requires vigor and the likelihood is that a man beyond 70 years of age will not possess vigor.

70 years of age is a fact based cutoff and thus is NOT ageism, which requires an arbitrary approach without reference to facts.

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Barking up the wrong tree.

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I am quite correct.

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nope, i dont support it. the united states doesnt need it.

Allan

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…officially dubbed this day as the “Let’s go Brandon Law”…amirite? :sunglasses: :tumbler_glass:

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Bad idea, constitutional amendment on age limits, new therapy comes out next year pushing back aging, repeat? Plus, I don’t need the government telling me who I can vote for, for any reason. You don’t want to vote for someone over seventy, don’t, problem solved.

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Yup. No reason to further limit our choices. Just as there’s no reason to artificially root out wisdom from the pool.

Does Trump running again really scare them this badly?

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The age limit of 70 at the end of the term would have banned Eisenhower from his second term.

I think 75 is a more reasonable limit, and the limit should apply to federal judges as well.

Democrats will do anything to prevent a Trump second term, but it is ironic that they had no concerns about Biden in 2020.

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The constitution tells you who to vote for in presidential elections.

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That’s nice, don’t really need the 35+ provision either, and I didn’t put it there.

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Isn’t it though? You didn’t put most of it there. That’s kind of a silly reason.

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What’s silly? I didn’t get a vote on that, presumably I would on age limits.

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You didn’t get to vote on most of it. That’s the silly part.

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Not seeing the relevance.

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No age limits should be in place for Presidents. If your old enough to vote your old enough to be President.

If the electorate want to install a 100 year old man or woman as President then that is their choice.

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No thanks on any amendment that limits me.

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Medicine is finally starting to treat aging as a disease and research money is multiplying like crazy. It’s theoretically possible to edit our genes in a manner that you could one day take a pill to reverse aging and another to resume. And given the exponential advancement in information fields, may not be all that far off. Doing my best to be around for it and I would rate my chances fifty fifty.

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Bad idea…bad policy.

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And this is precisely why.

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And we want you around mate.