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Mitch McConnell’s ‘sandbag’ moment stokes anxiety over US gerontocracy (archive.is)
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[–] flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

A certain number of hours a month/year doing something like that should be a requirement to be a representative in my opinion. As things are elected officials are allowed to be to detached from those they are supposed to be representing.