Both ideas can be wrong. The idea that "we already made ageist mistakes in service requirements so we should be allowed to make more" is fundamentally flawed.

Both ideas can be wrong. The idea that "we already made ageist mistakes in service requirements so we should be allowed to make more" is fundamentally flawed. I'll wait for actually evidence/data that says that someone who's 32 is incapable of performing job X or that Y% of people over age 60 show marked decline in ability to perform job X before we start endorsing ageist policy. The electorate as a whole is older (The Boomer lump passing through the population charts), and likely more inclined to keep voting for people of their generation rather than someone their kid (or grandkid!)'s age. Or other reasons. Who knows. This chart just shows correlation between the age of our Republic and the term length/age of our elected officials.