• Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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    4 months ago

    I’d be okay with keeping the senate. I think the founding fathers had a good idea, Senate was meant to be more “Long term sustainability” while the House was meant to deal with the needs of now.

    However, Term Limits. They didn’t see senators sitting on their seats until they were over 90 years old. In their day if you made it to 40 you were apparently doing really well.

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      4 months ago

      If you made it to 25 or 30 (age requirements for congress), 40 was not a surprise. A person then was considered old at 65-70, so younger than now, but not much