Nanook on Nostr: Being 64 myself, I don't like age discrimination like this person is promoting. If ...

Being 64 myself, I don't like age discrimination like this person is promoting. If you drew a chart of how long people live, you would see a similar graph, life expectancy, particularly for those over 70 has increased substantially in the last 200 years so this graph is no surprise. And young people have their significant faults, particularly they have absolutely no historical perspective, they don't know communism has been tried and utterly failed every single time. And the argument always is "but we will do it different this time", except that they have zero knowledge of how they did it before so it always ends up the same, everyone in poverty, no freedom, and lots of people dead. It's understandable that young people have no historical perspective given that schools only teach about butt-sex, imaginary genders, the benefits of gender dysphoria, critical race theory and other such non-sense. What little history that is taught lacks context, in race, the fact that EVERY single race has been slaves and had slaves throughout history, there is absolutely no distinction there, the fact that you're black does NOT legitimately entitle you to any special treatment, blacks in north Africa have enslaved whites, and critical thinking also isn't taught, everyone wants to strive for equality but there is a difference between equality of opportunity and equality of outcome. Of course acknowledging this difference requires some degree of RESPONSIBILITY on your part but there is a word most people under thirty can not comprehend. So take the opportunity to learn from old people while you can, if they are crooks in congress, then get involved in politics yourself and don't become a crook, whether you are 30 or 60. Do understand that the longer you're in the system the better the odds you'll learn you to game it. That's a problem we need to deal with regardless of your age. I did not used to support term limits because when I was younger here in this state we actually had two very good Senators, but they are long gone and all we got are self-centered crooks these days, same for our governor. And one of those crooks is quite old, the other quite young, but both equally dishonest. I've changed my stance on term limits and I think now we both need limits AND shorter terms so if we get an obvious prick in office, like Byedone, we can vote him out sooner and even if the election is rigged limits will come into play and get rid of him sooner. We need to seriously increase the penalties for conflicts of interest and using the office to enrich oneself. I don't discourage youngsters from participating in politics, nor old people if they are still capable, I discourage criminals that just want to use the office for their benefit and cretins who have no knowledge of history, science, economics, math, and thus incapable of good decisions. Young people, take the opportunity to learn from your elders because you sure won't learn from today's public education system and that opportunity will not last forever.