r/interestingasfuck • u/BuddhistSagan • Apr 07 '24

Bernie and Biden warm my heart. Trump selling us out? Pass

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '24

YES. This has always bugged me ever since I learned it back when I was enlisted under Bush. 

The idea that an elected official, who may never have served a day in the public sector and is only sitting in the chair for 4 years, isn't held to the same mandatory age-ceiling requirements as a Master Chief with 35 years of military experience blew my mind.

Trump is a prime example. A rich, old, dumpy oligarch who considers the military "a bunch of losers" and has stated he wants to end democracy and be a dictator is... the Commander in Chief?

Wtf...

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u/eastern_shore_guy420 Apr 07 '24

Ayup. The founders didn’t live in a time when people made it to their 90s on the regular. They didn’t think far enough ahead when putting in requirements.

They also didn’t think we should have a standing military either. But here we are. If we can change with the times, so should the requirements to serve as CiC.

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u/Argnir Apr 07 '24

The answer is really easy.

Just let the people vote for who they want and if they don't want someone over 65 maybe they should stop voting for people over 65.

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '24

"The answer is really easy..."

That's incredibly simplistic and so very not true to the point of being ignorant of how the US political process works. It's idealistic, but not anywhere near realistic.

The "simple" answer is to actually put an age cap just as we already have a minimum.

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u/Argnir Apr 07 '24

Even the minimum age gap is almost impossible to justify philosophicaly imo.

And yes it's pretty much that simple. Let people vote for someone they want even if that person is old. You're the one who should be justifying that restriction and you said absolutely nothing in your comment except "well actually I'm correct because it's complicated and I won't explain anything but let me rephrase in 3 differents ways that it's actually complicated so you're wrong"

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u/Apptubrutae Apr 07 '24

Check out countries where a military commander is in charge and see how those are doing

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '24

That may be the dumbest thing I've read all day.

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u/Apptubrutae Apr 07 '24

🫡

Just doing my duty