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Because aging politicians do not adequately represent the majority of their constituents.

Given that the publicly accepted view of aging is that we are all living longer; the math does not support your view.

Math is generalized logic, not a theory of a specific systems parameters and behavior.

Humans memorize the information relative to them. If politicians memorize racism they’ll make racist policy.

I don’t want people who think in 100 year old social terms alone deciding my fate.

Society that never retires old ideas, demands speech stay on specific rails is hardly free. That type of governance is the basis of a police state.

"I don’t want people who think in 100 year old social terms alone deciding my fate."

Discriminating against someone on the basis of age is anti-social behavior.

The math is on my side. The average age of 117th Congress is 59, while the average US citizen is 38 (at the time of this being noted in 2021).