Footage shows Trump looking extremely drowsy at his inaugural “Board of Peace” meeting on Thursday at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C. His eyelids grew heavy during Major General Jasper Jeffers III’s presentation, and if he didn’t fall asleep completely, he at least looked incredibly disinterested in his own creation.
Likely because people over the age of retirement do most of the voting.
But past that, its because our machinery of politics is too sclerotic to implement any kind of reforms that might inconvenience anyone in charge. Literally who would author the legislation? Who would vote for it? Who would sign it?
FFS, we’ve had both parties talking about Term Limits for 80 years running, with not terribly much to show for it. Only 17 states establish term limits for their state legislatures.
While the idea has some broad popular appeal, it rarely impacts anyone’s partisan voting pattern. If anything, the age of a candidate tends to improve their odds of winning election. Voters reflexively don’t trust people younger than them as representatives.. So campaigning as a young person promising to exclude older candidates can be a tough sell.