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A Congresswoman with Dementia Stopped Coming to Work. The DC Press Never Noticed (www.politico.com)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Maybe our representatives shouldn’t be retiree age. We need some people young enough to have to live with their consequences.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

One thing is that older people have been around longer and are more familiar with the kinds of shitty tricks that bad actors like to play in politics. Their staff is almost always younger people though.