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bucolic_frolic

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6. Wisdom begins after age 50

Reply to Polybius (Original post)

Wed Nov 4, 2020, 08:50 AM

Nov 2020

and it accelerates as one ages and learns how parts of the world are inter-connected.

A 25 year old has no business being elected to Congress. We fill seats with the zealotry of youth and the brains of a robot. Same for court seats, and Court seats. Government is no longer a self-correcting mechanism, it's an assembly line.

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