"Forbidding or preventing employees from engaging or participating in politics" sounds to me like a company can't prevent you from voting, or attending a political rally in your non-work time. It doesn't sound to me like a company can't make decisions based on your 'political' views, including treating you more or less favourably relative to other employees or candidates.

I put political in quotes back there simply because it's a word that can be bent in all sorts of directions to mean anything from Politics to simply having an opinion on something. Remember, the opinion might be highly offensive and make working with others, on a team, more difficult.

I am not sure where you are at but in the US and CA you can fire someone for basically any reason they want. Say he farted in a meeting and he can be fired.

This is very different in the US versus other parts of the world.

But here it is pretty easy because ANY company I am familiar with in the US would fire Damore. It is just how things work in the US. You do not write what he wrote and share it. Might not be fair but how things work.

It is also why he is sitting at home and nobody will hire him. All of this has ZERO to do with politics and him being right leaning.

The issue has been cop-opt by the right wing to use it to gen up their base.

This is NOT a political issue as it appears you think. Writing what he did about women is NOT political. It is just human decency and something you just do not do.

Why do you think he now has his GF filter what he writes?