Cap it at 65, the current median retirement age. Set the standard that all adults 65 and older should be finished with their careers.

If the average citizen expects to be retired at that age, then nobody older than that ought to be working to govern the country.

I'd love to see a diversity in age requirement

I wonder if it would be better to have a term limit. I don't really care if you are 125, but there should be a limit to how long you sit there with huge amounts of power. Especially since they aren't directly re-elected.

I don't think so. One you'd lose Bernie. Two it's a bit harsh to assume anyone over a certain age isn't mentally capable of governing or changing with the times.

I think term limits would serve you much better.

What, no president?

I mean, as long as we're dreaming... We need a hell of a lot more representatives. It used to be proportional to population, but it was capped at 435 (in the 1930s?). Way more reps would probably help more parties emerge as well.

Not an American but if you should have and every country should have a minimum age, like 21 because of mental and physical maturity, and a maximum age like 75, because of the risk of possible stamina and mental decline.

60-65.

Make it the average retirement age.

Say, greedy old guy, would you mind giving up the power you so prominently covet? Why, no? Well geeze.

We do not need people like Mitch McConnell who genuinely think 600 dollars is this crazy large amount of money you can live comfortably on for years. This is a real argument he has made.

mandatory retirement is never the answer; that's just ageism plus there are a ton of shitty 30 year old politicians.

term limits especially for unelected positions is a must though

also national elections for supreme court justices instead of presidential picks.

Yes

President

Younger than that. 65

Simple, if you can't get elected before a age X then you shouldn't be able to get elected after (life expectancy - X)

Example: Can't become president before 35? Life expectancy is 75 for men and 80 for women, men can't become president after 40, women after 45.

Just watch how fast life improves in the USA if you put a measure like that in place, not just from having younger politicians but also from wanting to be able to get elected later in life.

Same for voting right, can't vote before 18, can't vote after 57 and 62.

Yes. Our country is run by geriatrics who, among other things related to modern society, legislate on technology they don't understand. We need younger members with more flexible minds who have at least spent some part of their younger lives dealing with problems we have a modern variation of today.

But especially SCOTUS members. Any kind of term limit on them would be better than what we have.

I heard even more radical proposal (not in us) - cap the voting age. Reason is simple, by voting you decide about future, how can pensioners who, frankly, will die soon can reasonably decide about my future if I am 20 yo.