In America age discrimination is only illegal once you're 40 years old...

If you're 39 and 11 months, you can be denied a senior position for being too young, even if you have 20 years experience

Because old people write our laws, and they don't see a problem with telling a middle aged adult that they're too young.

If only one out of two groups have protection, it's not equaly opportunity, it's legislated discrimination.

It's insane because republicans constantly complain about valid equal opportunity, but never mention the one that's actually discriminatory.

It's especially insane when we have to pretend like an 81 year old magically is immune to scientifically proven medical facts

It is age discrimination but it's legal because it's built-in to the Constitution. Not joking, the "founders" decided that there was a such thing as too young but not too old.

Yes, a 2-party system is broken in the modern world.

I would love to have a 2-party system. But we have closer to a constellation of one party systems. Red States and Blue States, with a smattering of battlegrounds.

Between Winner-Take-All districts and the Electoral College, there's very little incentive to participate in an election in a municipality or state that's overwhelmingly one team or the other. And even when you do participate, you're limited to... what? People blowing up your phone and email with donation requests? A few months of block walking for a local candidate who you get to meet maybe twice and who barely knows your name? Running around bothering your friends a week before voting day not to sleep through this one? Getting drunk at a campaign event on election night, only to be dropped like a bad habit in the morning?

The parties themselves aren't really political entities. They're more like boosters for professional athletics teams or celebrity tours that you're expected to cheer for but never really interact with. They don't do anything outside of an election season. They don't provide any kind of constituent service or artery to the leadership themselves.

This consumerist politics is genuinely very different from the kind of organizing and activism that takes place throughout the rest of the democratic world. If it feels like Biden and Trump are just kinda being foisted on us by a cartel of party insiders, there's a good reason for it.

And a president isn't just the presidency, it also sets tons of agency heads and tons of judicial appointments including potential Supreme Court nominations. It's a major mistake to think of a presidential vote as a vote for one person, it's for tons of incredibly important positions that the president decides.

Biden could drop out and they could nominate a literal piece of driftwood covered in seagull shit, and I would vote for the driftwood if it were between that and Trump.

Best government ever created by man, right there

There was NEVER anything any of us could do. The moment Biden announced he would run for reelection, everyone who mattered fell in line.

All we can do is hope Trump is jailed

Nothing in the Constitution bars Trump from holding the Office of the President while in a super max prison.

Absolutely nothing.

Meanwhile, Trump, who trails Biden by a mere four years of age, is viewed as energetic and mentally sharp by Republicans. So essentially, Dems are pretty realistic in their assessment of both candidate’s ages, while Republicans are only realistic about Biden.

I would bet my entire life savings that if you asked exactly the same Republicans exactly the same question about Trump in 4 years, their response would be exactly the same. Their assessment is not whether an 81 year old is too old to serve, it's that an 81 year old Democrat is too old to serve.

You've basically just touched on how conservatives operate. It's never actually about any sort of philosophy, it has always been about control and projecting insecurities on the world.

Anything goes just so they can win and sit back like Thanos after infinity war, smiling at the sun rise.

Who cares? We shouldn't have the choices on the ballot being both choices that the majority of Americans don't want

🦅 F R E E D O M 🇺🇸

It really does matter. The implication is that the system is obviously broken because no one likes either choice.

Any Democratic candidate with a pulse, and tbh we could probably get voters to moderate their expectations on both of those points if we had to

60% of the country has grown to hate and fear Trump just as much as 40% of it adores him

59% of Americans should have been paying attention a year ago when something could have been done about it.

What thing? The Democrats basically didn't have a primary. All the potential internal rivals to Biden bowed out.

The Republicans had a conga-line of sacrificial lambs. I even saw a few spicy Op-Eds suggesting that a true anti-Trump Democrat should be actively campaigning for Ron DeSantis or Nikki Haley. But... Trump's a fucking hog. He's got every AM radio and Evangelical Church repping him. What were "59% of Americans" who'd been otherwise alienated from the political process supposed to do? Build an entirely new party from first principles and put... idfk... Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk on the top?