It’s not a good comparison, though, as Reagan could still publicly present as a cognitively-functioning person.

Biden couldn’t. The June debate wasn’t the first time we’d seen his brain melt in public. It was just the worst.

What about the morons who ran a candidate with very public dementia?

Realistically, it’s the fault of people voting for shitty candidates. That’s not a matter of opinion, but of fact.

Your point of view sounds a whole lot like the 2500 year-old history of blaming young people.

In reality, however, it’s the Boomers who are largely responsible for the world we find ourselves in, not the 20 year-olds. Electing Reagan twice, by itself, was more harmful to American society and beneficial to consumerism than anything Gen Z has done.

I don’t think this is a generational thing, personally, unless we’re talking about the Boomers.

The Boomers took a vibrant, beautiful world and spent two generations driving it into this McDonaldized hellhole we live in, after reaping the benefits of the most prosperous economic period for workers in our history in the 1960’s. They’re still profiting now thanks to the lopsided tax policies that favor people with wealth.

The vast majority of the country only has one or two choices when shopping for necessities now, so I can’t really blame them for the world that they were born into. Calling young people consumerist is just blaming them for circumstances of which they had no real control.

Why?

Democrats and Republicans have spent the last eight years convincing the poor and middle class that voting doesn’t matter. Hell, Democrats even subverted their own primary rules twice to strike that point home, and then argued in court that it was their right to do so when they were sued for it.

I vote, but I can’t pretend it matters much when I watch most people in this country across the last eight years working gig jobs for 100 hours a week and all their labor can buy for them is a roach-infested studio regardless of where they live, and our president always has money and time for genocide.

Yeah, and John Codman was quite a motherfucker.

You’re welcome!

I had a long drive back from Texas yesterday and heard a podcast on the story of Mark Codman, and felt compelled to share it as this was never part of the Paul Revere story that I was taught in school, and I imagine it’s because of the general whitewashing of slavery in the public school curriculum.

Maybe some of you have never heard of him either.

Agreed. Biden LOVED bloodying his hands.