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Why it's in the best interests of young Kosaks/Dems to ally with older people. [1]
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Date: 2022-09-01
Ageism is the last permissible —even supported— prejudice on the left. But like all bigotry, it seeds vulnerability in everyone buying into it.
And it doesn’t really matter whether you think ol’ folks are just a drain on society or automatic conservatives or whatever you may believe about them. Those beliefs are irrelevant compared to how the party stands to gain or lose from how you speak and act.
Do the math. The ‘senior’ age cohort is only growing all the time. If YOU aren’t there yet yourself, you will be someday ... if you’re lucky.
Meanwhile, how smart is it to alienate them by speaking of them and treating them as if they don’t know what they’re talking about, or are interested solely in their own benefit at the cost of everyone else’s … or that the mileage and road conditions of the years they’ve put in working for their families and communities, and all they’ve seen in the process, has made them too stupid for any valid role in society?
h/t KOScocom1 — 2018
How politically smart is it to make a large number of enemies unnecessarily?
Insult and politically assault older people, and you drive them to suspect all other political stances you might PREFER they would take. After all, almost no one younger trusts anyone who behaves like an enemy, so why should anyone older?
Numerically, every Dem under age 60 in this country NEEDS every possible ally OVER 60 that we can get. FULL ALLIES — equals. Not as patronized minorities bullshitted to. Because people over 60 —and over 70, even over 80— are less and less a minority all the time.
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