# Demonizing older voters

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/demonizing-older-voters/823949>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [November 3, 2018, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/demonizing-older-voters/823949 "2018-11-03T21:40:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e8c25b/32.png) [@excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/excavating_for_a_mind)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2018, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/demonizing-older-voters/823949/42 "2018-11-04T16:10:58Z")

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> [@kayT](#):
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> Is this humor or something? I’m confused. Surely no one intelligent enough to post on this board is stupid enough to think people can be divided up into groups by age and categorized in that way.

Oh, there are those on this board that think that way.

> [@Is it time to leave yet?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-time-to-leave-yet/823748/107):
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> we’re hardly alone. Sorry, but the post-WWII generation is fucking things up pretty much across the globe. Trump, Brexit, Orban, Wilders, Petry, Duterte, Putin, Le Pen, are all those pathetic, aging fossils who never got their WWIII to be the next “greatest generation.” Nationalism and populism are rampant everywhere, just witness Brazil electing Bolsonaro.
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> the world sucks because old people are the only reliable voting block, and old people suck. Old people convince themselves that they were absolute perfect angels when they were young, and that everything was perfect when they were young. so they will vote for any demagogue who agrees that everything was perfect back then and who promises to protect them from everything they’re scared of, including their own shadows.
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> we are the only species on the planet that expends a ton of effort keeping our aged population alive. and I wonder why.

I find

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> …old people suck.

part particularly telling. Funny thing, in the 60’s and 70’s, the boomers were saying the same thing about “the greatest generation”. Don’t worry, if you’re lucky enough, the kids today will be moaning about how the Gen Xers and Millennials have messed up this world and the only reason is that old people (by then, Gen Xers and Millennials) are the only ones who vote.

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