Mitch McConnell is unfit to serve, right?
@ZGF There's no rule for specifically removing a senator just because they're unfit to serve, even if they are in a coma.
A senator can be expelled by a 2/3 vote of the Senate, but there's unfortunately no rule I'm aware of for removing someone just for being physically and mentally unable to perform their duties.
@CoyoteConscious there should be a rule of age. Anyone over 55 or so does not serve the country's future interests but their own generation, in large. These clowns pad their pockets and there is no mechanism left to check them. We are essentially screwed at this point.
@ZGF My grandparents would have laughed at that, since they were the sort that cared very much about what their grandchildren needed.
Maybe it should be tacked to the age of social security retirement, or do like with commercial airline pilots, and make it 60.
I say this as a person who would soon be too old to be in office under such a rule.
@CoyoteConscious I think your grandparents likely wouldn't be elected with that level of integrity. Politics and law enforcement draws people who are in it for themselves
@ZGF We are the people who do the electing. It is up to us to stop electing people like that.
@CoyoteConscious not really true. We select from the people who are hand picked by lobbyists. They won't select ones who won't work on their behalf. You can get a few ones here and there that get elected on merit, but it's mostly corruption.
@ZGF It was better when people thought it was rude to say who they were voting for.
@ZGF If you pick people who don't take money from large donors and corporations, they're not working for lobbyists.
The reason we pick people "hand picked by lobbyists" is because the people who employ the lobbyists spend huge money promoting them and their BS.
And people keep "voting strategically" by voting for people they think other people will vote for because of how "popular" media controlled by those entities say they are.