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Aussie105

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2. The power and influence involved in being in politics is something only intelligent people should be asked to handle.

Reply to Uncle Joe (Original post)

Tue Jul 14, 2026, 05:43 AM

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Yet here we are.

Alert, capable and intelligent younger people are waiting in the wings.
Kept at arm's length until an old one falls off his perch.

Most jobs have a 'use by' or 'expiration date', why not politics?

HINT: They mostly all go weird past 65.

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