As the country's political leaders continue to get older, events and episodes of decline among politicians continue to happen publicly.

People mentioned in this article are very old.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), 81 Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), 90 President Joe Biden, 80 Former President Donald Trump, 77

  • yiliu@informis.land
    2·
    1 year ago

    And to pay politicians! Doctors, lawyers, bottom -rung programmers, and ambitious plumbers all make more than the people who run the county–and aren’t expected to constantly fly themselves across the country and maintain multiple residences–at least one of them in one of the priciest markets in the country.

    The only people who want that job are already rich, or are great at schmoozing and finding donors.

    Pay them so well, all your best and brightest want to grow up to be legislators, and have no urgent need to start accepting graft. At least make it competitive with writing python scripts.

    • mikansei@kbin.social
      6·
      1 year ago

      Politicians don’t get rich from their salaries. They get rich from the connections they make.

      I would accept paying them more if they weren’t allowed to actively trade stocks while in office

      • yiliu@informis.land
        1·
        1 year ago

        Yes, that is the status quo. If you want to change it, you need to accept higher pay so that more average Joes seek election and then vote to restrict trades by sitting politics.

        Constricting pay only cements the status quo by making it so that only rich people or cheaters can make a living as a politician.