Joe Biden and Mitch McConnell struck up a friendship during their nearly quarter-century in the Senate together. Now in their 80s, the Democratic president and the Senate GOP leader appear to be giving political cover to each other as they fend off questions about their advanced age and health issues.
Notably, McConnell, R-Ky., 81, hasnāt joined Donald Trump, 77, and other Republicans who have attacked Bidenās age, health and mental acuity as he seeks re-election.
And after McConnellās second freeze-up last week, Biden was one of the first to call McConnell, telling reporters that his āfriendā sounded like āhis old selfā and that such episodes are a āpart of his recoveryā from a fall and a concussion this year.
Democracy and populism are mutually exclusive?
Improving education is indeed the solution to the problem. And itās a thing that is more likely to happen than a law prohibiting those currently in power from running again.
IMO itās useless talking about what laws or policies need to change to fix this because the people with the power to change it know that doing so will affect their ability to stay in power and just wonāt change it to their detriment. Itās the same reason protesting wonāt ever fix the fundamental issues. The people currently at the top arenāt just going to hand their power away or cripple their ability to easily generate or access wealth. If it comes to it, theyāll go to war before giving that up.
Then it follows that itās also useless to even discuss such things on the internet. So why even bring up these topics if itās impossible to change anything?
Or are you just spending time posting on the internet in an attempt discourage others from trying to improve things?
Solving a problem requires understanding it. Iām not trying to discourage improvement but want more people to see what I see about the nature of whatās going on and how many of these flaws in the system arenāt seen that way by the people who pass the laws and make the policies.