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June 28, 2016

“We take pensioners’ driving licences away… why not their right to vote?”

Media Calls For "Ban" On Old People Voting After Brexit Vote GQ Magazine went all out, producing: “WE SHOULD BAN OLD PEOPLE FROM VOTING”.
Writing about “them” as if the older generations are some foreign species, the reasons given by the author included: “The EU referendum result will have less effect on older people”; “Over 65s read the Daily Mail”; “There was no ‘golden age’ of Britain”; and “We take pensioners’ driving licences away… why not their right to vote?”

Posted by gerardvanderleun at June 28, 2016 10:01 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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Has there ever been a time in western history that the old have been so despised?

Posted by: DonRodrigo [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 28, 2016 2:26 PM

I don't think "old" people are despised as much as they are envied by the lower aged imbecile crowd. The less experienced are actually starting to understand that we older ones designed and built all the toys and other things these worthless babies use and love so much.

Posted by: Terry [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 29, 2016 4:41 PM

I direct you to Never Yet Melted/Richard Fernandez's blistering retort:

"Essentially people much older than you gave you what you now take for granted. They won World War 2, fueled the great boom, walked through the valley of the shadow of nuclear death — and had you.

You didn’t make the present, nor as you now complain, are you making the future. No children, no national defense, no love of God or country.

But that’s just it. You’ve brainwashed yourselves into thinking someone else: the old, the older, the government, the dead would always do things for you.

If you learn anything from Brexit, learn that nobody got anywhere expecting someone to do things for him.”

Posted by: Rosalind [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 30, 2016 6:10 AM

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