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Let’s stop being ageist.
Removed by modThe assumption that old people are inherently right wing and young people are inherently left wing is just wrong. Correlating age with political beliefs is a fucking pseudoscience, and so is the whole concept of generations like boomers and zoomers. Their marketing terms, the baby boom was a uniquely United States thing and to apply that term to 20 odd years of people from across the world is just factually wrong. We got to stop self identifying with these terms because they are ageist and they divide us and they allow for shitty excuses like “it’s just their generation” to excuse shitty behavior.
What’s the point of this? Stop dunking on old people. Old people aren’t inherently reactionary.
the treatment of older adults in the United States is... I have no other word but sin. I don't mean how we talk about the elderly, I mean how once you're past your use as a laboring employee, you're expected to just exist - day after day, week after week - in a glorified motel, run by overworked nurses, for a private company that only sees you for your social security check. It's horrific. It's bleak. It's a sin. No nation worthy of respect would see this as an acceptable 'solution'.
Utah Phillips has some good songs about this: All Used Up and Too Old to Work, Too Young to Die