Spyke

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Over 75% of voters want maximum age limit for elected officials, poll shows

I'm 62, which is embarrassingly old to be effing around on the fediverse.

But I just want to say these octogenarians can't possibly represent me.

It's partly their age.

But to me wealth is the more corrupting factor. Some of these people have never had a real job, or at least in decades.

I'm both hoping to work until I'm 70 or die sooner.

These rich assholes can't represent anyone except other rich assholes.

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Sadly true

My father was kind of a low level fixer in California politics.

He tended to vote Republican but regarded Reagan as a marginally literate moron.

After Reagantard reached the presidency in 1980, part of his obscene transfer of wealth to the rich brought on taxation of some of social security income.

One day I was talking to my father and kind out of nowhere he said, "Fuck Ronald Reagan."

I don't think anyone in the family voted RepubliKKKlan after that. For a lot of reasons. One of those reasons was his refusal to treat the rise of AIDS seriously.

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Health insurance

I have cancer and diabetes, and aside from the premiums insurance costs me a minimum of $4,250 every fucking year, plus stuff they refuse to cover.

And I found out the hard way that you're better off dead than getting air medivacced, a delightful experience I've had twice.

The first time I told the ER head to just let me die. The cost of a hundred mile flight was over $80,000.

The second time, this February was over $143,000, but by then I had gotten air transport insurance. Which of course initially denied the claim.

In the U.S. you are just meat that is harvested for money.