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timodreynolds t1_iqmm68l wrote

Reply to comment by Kudd53 in [OC] Median age difference between US Senators and the US population (1950-2022) v2 by JolietJakeLebowski

>I think you should eliminate minors when counting population because they can't be senators

Maybe 18 and younger wont have laws made that impact them? Is that what you're saying?

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Kudd53 t1_iqmy51t wrote

Well I don't see many people complaining that a 16 year old can't be a senator and I think that it's ok to limit that because in those ages we are still going through maturation and brain development so a senator below 25 (Iirc that's when brain maturation finishes) shouldn't exist because they could be inconsistent with their behaviour and ideology.

The real reason for someone to be worried about senator Vs normal people age is that even though a 40 year old can legally be a senator, socially we can see we decide to have way older senators and that's not a good representation of the population.

It wouldn't make sense to complain about senator age average not being close to young people if it's obviously not even possible for the average senator age to be lower than the age in which we are allowed to advocate for senator.

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Prestigious-Owl165 t1_iqmmf4g wrote

Yeah there's no reason to do that lol. This just shows that we've always been governed by people who are out of touch with most of us, and this isn't a new problem. Doesn't mean it's not a problem

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Winjin t1_iqrlf9q wrote

Hey I'm not out of touch with the young! I'm still young and hip, yo, yo, snowboard, floppy! Ow, my hip.

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