"Eminem and Kid Rock should battle for state Senate."

3.) Are they at least 35 years old?

I don't know why this is still a rule. originally it was to keep dumb/uneducated/inexperienced people out of office, but obviously it has failed at that at this point.

Since it has stopped fulfilling it's original purpose I say we remove it. if your old enough to die for your country you're old enough to run it, should the people decide you are ready. same for senate and representative.

Might help congress stop being so stuck in the past. in the modern world 30 years (required age for congress) is an eternity. thirty years ago the internet didn't exist. The AVERAGE senator is 61 years old, (as of the 114th congress) that means the average Senator was around before Sputnik. would have been two at the time of the first integrated circuit, and were 13 years old the time of the moon landing (giving pretty decent odds that at least one of them was busy jacking off while Neil gave his famous speech), they would have been 20 when the Apple 1 was launched.

I don't blame most senators for being out of touch with a lot of things, considering that even home computers have only been around for a third of their life, and there is a strong possibility that they personally didn't use one until long after that.

I'm just saying that with the world changing as quickly as it is, making the minimum age for politicians lower would make a lot of sense, and could do a lot of good since even if the majority of congress stayed within the same age range it would put at least some younger people in there that could help explain/support things that matter to the modern person. (I know that politicians have tons of advisors, but there is a difference between hearing something from a subordinate and a peer. and at a minimum it would be one more vote against shit that fucks over everyone that the current generation of politicians just don't understand).

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