As the country's political leaders continue to get older, events and episodes of decline among politicians continue to happen publicly.

People mentioned in this article are very old.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), 81 Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), 90 President Joe Biden, 80 Former President Donald Trump, 77

  • worfamerryman@beehaw.orgEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    You need money to run and young people done have the money.

    I forget who it was, possibly Andre yang, who said that the money spent on campaigns should come from a pool and every vote you get in a primary translates to how much federal money you are granted or something.

    I forget, but there are plenty of options, but it will only take power from the people who have it , so, of course nothing will change.

    • TheSaneWriter@lemmy.thesanewriter.comEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      To be realistic, I agree that nothing is likely to change in the short term. However, in the long term, I think things need to change or eventually the United States will face a revolution.

      • whelmer@beehaw.orgEnglish
        9·
        1 year ago

        To me it seems the United States is heading towards civil war more than revolution. There’s factionalism at play that is deeper than just class antagonisms. I read a book recently where the author was talking about how times when states are transitioning into or out of “democraticness” in when civil wars are most likely to occur. Factionalism and shifting democratic integrity means high risk for civil war. Apparently.

        • TheSaneWriter@lemmy.thesanewriter.comEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          I largely agree with your points, but I would like to note a revolution is a type of civil war and I don’t think the United States is heading toward another war of secession, and thus whatever civil war it has might be a revolution (though unfortunately it may not be a left-wing revolution).

      • worfamerryman@beehaw.orgEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        I agree, I don’t think people in the states life the worst quality life by almost any means, but the quality of life has changed very quickly and people are having trouble dealing with a sudden much lower quality of life.

        I think this will cause things to break suddenly and violently when it happens. I’m happily living in a third would country. People ask me why I don’t movie back home, but I don’t really give much of an answer. It’s like everyone understands subconsciously that it’s not a good place to live.

    • Strayce@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Australia sort of has a system like this. You have to have the money to campaign up front, but you can claim back a percentage based on how much of the vote you get. In practice it just means we end up with a ton of minor and single issue parties doing preference deals and trading favours in the senate.

      • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Australia sort of has a system like this. You have to have the money to campaign up front, but you can claim back a percentage based on how much of the vote you get

        Canada did as well for a few years. Then a conservative government got elected and cancelled it.

    • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      You need money to run and young people done have the money.

      That’s one issue.

      Another is that most people are unlikely to vote for someone with little-to-no life experience.

      As mush as youth and enthusiasm are useful traits, so is experience working in a variety of tasks and situations. (Both employment and volunteer/community service types of experience)

      Electing the equivalent of student council candidates won’t improve the situation.