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[+] 408 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (93 children)
  • [–] 270 points 2 years ago (70 children)

    I was gonna say she's too young, but apparently she'd turn 35 about a month before the election. A president who's barely old enough... What a nice change of pace that would be.

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  • [–] 40 points 2 years ago (35 children)

    That requirement is so ageist as the brain is fully developed at age 26

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  • [–] 58 points 2 years ago (18 children)

    The idea is to have some experience in politics in lower positions before taking on the hot seat.

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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I feel like mandating a certain number of years in some managerial governmental position would be more effective. Trump is basically a living example of how to get around that. Honestly a lot of democracy kinda assumes people elect competent and honest leaders and a lot of humanity are just brainwashed morons so we're stuck with what we got :/.

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  • [–] 47 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    It's stupid that there's a minimum and not a maximum

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    True. There's this fun quirk of US law, though, that makes ageism against young people completely fine and dandy!

    You can discriminate against people for being young all you want. That's the Gerontocracy in action..

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago

    Absolutely. Housing crisis in full swing here and yet 55+ communities are somehow still legal. Infuriating that it works to the benefit of the old fucks by earmarking plenty of available units for only them, but when the young people want to get rid of it so they can have a shot at property ownership too, suddenly you're an ageist.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    My worry about AOC as candidate is that she's relatively alone in her political space, and is far from having Bernie's weight as of today. She's in the Democratic party, sure, but she's in a very small faction inside of it, which may lead to a Corbyn situation: she takes the helm of the party, but centrist figures begin attacking her from her own ranks with the support of the media until she's forced to concede to a moderate.

    On the other hand, if you manage to get 100, 200 elected representatives in the Democratic party who are clearly ideologically aligned with AOC, making her the nominee is no longer a battle, but rather, it becomes the natural consequence of the balance of power within the party.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    I completely agree with you and I hate it. Our political system will advance at the rate politicians croak, since apparently retiring from office has gone out of fashion.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    women do tend to live longer than men, so maybe we could see a 91 year-old AOC on the ballet in 2080...

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Only issue is she’s a divisive figure so center shitters might be driven to vote for trump. I think she’s awesome and would love if she was the first woman pres

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  • [–] 67 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    A huge part of the poor youth vote attendance is due to them not feeling represented by geriatric nominees. If she were to run she would get very strong youth and minority support in addition to all the left voters.

    TBH it would be a dream come true for her to run and win this year and I'm not even American.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I'm Canadian and agree with you.

    Just imagine a ticket with AOC and Bernie Sanders! Now that would so something to see!

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    Bernie winning Dem primaries was the last time we saw the DNC put its heels in the sand. I don't think anyone should be surprised that a huge portion of the Dem voter base now feels consistently disenfranchised, especially the younger side. And the current issue with Biden doesn't improve it.

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