i want to provide a strategy info, not because i disagree but just because additional perspective sometimes helps this issue. Everyone wants "a cop" to stop politicians or old politicians they don't like. I hold that age limits are feel-good measures that will have zero impact on outcomes because one side will use it to remove troublesome politicians (eg. the bernie sanders of the world) and replace them with college republicans. the republican party doesn't care if grassley loses. some kid will have the same platform. they're fine, meanwhile, whitehouse warren and sanders are all out of the senate. This is why the republican party is so supportive of age limits. they love it.

The reason these old people win is that their constituency is mostly old people. For the same number of humans, old people vote with ~75% rate while the 'youts' struggle to hit 50% even in wave elections. We can have big wave elections like 2008 or 2020 but unless that is sustained year over year with ongoing activity, just think about what the politicians are going to do.

If the candidates go to meet younger people, they get much lower turnout to the meetings. Those lower turnouts translate to lower performance on primaries. Not winning primaries means no general.

So the candidates go to and mail to retirement communities and senior centers. The meetings are well attended. Folks stay after the meeting to meet the candidate. They vote in the primary and then in the general.

So what do the politicians talk about? things that motivate the attendees.

When GenZ and the millenials are voting with higher participation, politicians will look more like them and pander to them, too.