I’ve spent the last 10 minutes looking for any evidence of their participation in the primaries, but I can’t find any. In fact, it tends to be the opposite, that they stay out of primaries unless there’s a candidate they favour whom they think is the only strong candidate, in a seat where there is a risk of losing it to the Republicans. None of that was true in California in 2018.
I get what you’re saying, but in this case it really is just the incumbency advantage due to fundraising and name recognition, rather than any shenanigans pulled by the national party. They simply sat this one out, unless you have any evidence that they funded Feinstein’s reelection efforts?
Ironically, MAGA are the human beings who have absolutely no empthy with criminals, even less serious stuff, like burglaries. They are the ones who have the ethics of lock 'em up and throw away the key (not caring much about the “why” of the crime or social conditions or anything like weak soft hearted soc dems like me care about).
Me, I don’t wish real harm on this individual, but seems clear that he needs to serve prison time. Ironically, a US court will convict him to a far harsher conviction than what I personally think is ethical sound, but MAGA wants that, so…
I understand that for many Americans, it is important that these people serve time. And they should (though not necessarilly very many years imo).
Personally, I think most of the rioters, the insurrectionst; that they are a diversion. Of course, one is responsible for ones actions in life despite being misled.
But what I find deeply problematic, is that those who misled them, those who created the conspiracies and those in the bloody US executive branch who organised the January 6th storming. They go scot free ! They are the ones important to sentence to many, many years in prison, not the mob, not the foot soldiers.
Michal Flynn, still not sentenced, the directors of the propaganda and the plot not sentenced. Trump not sentenced. But the foot soldiers, oh they went to prison. At least until Trump pardoned them. But it was always an injustice. Foot soldiers get carried away, some are violent, but many are also indoctrinated fools. The leaders, they should get a lot more prison time than a foot soldier, but got nothing.
To stop someone going on way too long, there is a two term limit. (Let’s see if Trump tries to upend that). Further, if someone is too old, there needs to be a change to the Constitution. Make it a matter of the law of the land, so opinion as to someone’s acuity is taken out of the equation.
The lower age limit of 35 for being President is enshrined in the Constitution. It should naturally follow that there should be an upper age limit.
There is some legitimate debate to be had as to what that would be, as there is a real sense that you can get a lot of stuff done in politics with some years on the clock - more than most other jobs, anyhow.
My attempt at the answer is that once you reach the retirement age for your country, the maximum on top is that you are allowed one four year term as President.
This would prevent someone going on to be President into their 70s, which might not quite be the right solution, especially when I look at a man like Bernie Sanders.
Arguably it is not an age based solution, but an independent, robust body of medical and cognitive professionals, who have to sign off on it. Then again, I see the flaws in that, as it could easily be politicized, so perhaps a straight upper age limit is what is needed, just as there is a clear lower age limit.
It might, so perhaps not linking it to the retirement age is the way to go?
Say, just a flat 70 and you are done. By all means if you are mid term, finish your term, but that’s it.
Loads of possible permutations, but the main thing, given the geriatrics who have contested politics at the top level for too long, is that an upper limit needs to be found, however we get there.
If the Constitution sees fit to place a lower limit, finish the job and stick an upper limit on it.
RSF is what was known as the Janjaweed previously (remnants of it, then later more profesionalised) , an organisation responsible for the previous genocide in Darfur and now the instigators of this brutal civil war
