Maher's Mask Slips: Punching Down While the Republic Burns

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125. You are doing the same thing Maher does

The vast majority of seniors - so-called "boomers" and can we ever put that idiotic word to pasture? - are dependent upon Social Security. Do you have any comprehension as to what that means?

It was "Boomers" who fought for Civil Rights, for reproductive rights, for the environment. "Boomers" cared for not only their parents, but for their children and now their grandchildren at unprecedented rates. They lived through a massive loss of well paying jobs, the loss of access to healthcare, the destruction of neighborhoods ad the environment. They weren't the ones in charge, the "greatest generation" was.

Yes, most of the people who have accumulated wealth are older. That has always been true. But just because most wealthy people are older that does not mean most older people are wealthy. As for older people trending conservative, that has always been true as well. Do you know why? Because wealthy white people trend Republican, at any age, and wealthy white people live longer than the rest of the population. All of my friends were left wingers and many of them are dead now.

Pitting one generation against another is at best a distraction, at worst reactionary and destructive. You are wrong about "Boomers" the same way Maher is wrong about "Gen Z"

Get yourself to a rally with AOC and Sanders and look around. It is not about age, and it certainly is not about these absurd "generation" labels manufactured by the mass media.