The Same Old Seniors Who Vote GOP Support A Party That Say They Have A Duty To Die Early - And

[TheMastersNemesis]

the GOP will pass and support policies to help them once they have taken all their money and blame it on minorities and the poor.

[Warpy]

1. You have to understand the generation before the oldest Boomers.

They were born in relatively small numbers during the Depression and WWII. When they came of age, the men were drafted into a peacetime army and never given a reason to doubt all the jingoistic bullshit they were fed in basic. The women knew that the only alternative to marriage was a lifetime of being underpaid as nurse, secretary, teacher, waitress, or domestic worker. When all the doors have been slammed in your face, you stop knocking and accept what you've got.

It's no wonder they overwhelmingly supported Reagan and have supported Republicans ever since. Their culture is completely different from the oldest Boomers who had to fight the war (and demonstrate to end) they merely prepared for.

Yes, they're voting in favor of their increased poverty and early death. However, their culture doesn't allow them to vote Democratic.

(Yes, I know there are outliers to every statistical norm, so save it)

[TheMastersNemesis]

2. What They Are Doing Is Called Insanity, Dementia And Senility

[Zoeisright]

6. Yep. I don't fucking care how old you are.

You still should be able to learn something.

[life long demo]

8. Yes, I know there are outliers to every statistical norm, so save it

Yeah, I know. BUT I do believe there are a large number of "elderly" who were born during WWII, but identify themselves with boomers (like myself, born in 1943). I and many of my friends marched for civil rights, because it was right. Fought for the environment because it was right. Fought against the Vietnam war. Fought for animals, does anyone remember the marches to stop whaling, also for the wolf & coyote who were brutalized by cattlemen, ranchers, hunters and the FWS. Most of us never voted for a republican and never will. And yes we know people who are on SS who vote republican, but they usually always voted republican anyway. I know you made an exception for us but I wanted to speak up as a reminder.

[busterbrown]

3. These days they also tend to wait by the door with a gun...

ready to blow the heads off of anyone who is in their driveway after 10:00 p.m.


http://nbclatino.com/2013/01/29/georgia-man-shoots-and-kills-young-latino-who-accidentally-pulled-into-his-driveway-police-say/

[WinkyDink]

4. May I generalize about young punks, George?

[busterbrown]

5. Young punks?

Conflating young punks with over 70 White GOPer’s.. These people are very specific..

[WinkyDink]

10. Yes, well, as a Baby Boomer, I get tired of the slams.

[olddots]

7. Once again -- it would be a nice planet without those humans

The 70 somethings (sorry) may be the people who came up with the " American Dream " hype and many of them lived it .

I think 7 billion plus humans is too much along with our brilliant ideas of robotizing and computerizing everything but hey who knows ?

[ladjf]

9. This has turned out to be a very troubling and hurtful post. It grieves me to read opinions that

are such crude generalizations about older people. The fact is that millions of Americans of all
voting ages and genders are continuing to vote against their best interests just as the did in 1860 when they voted to secede from the Union.

American political opinions, especially during the past 50 years, have been largely shaped by
professional propagandists who are highly skilled at their trade. The average American voter, regardless of age, is no match for the propaganda, mind control machine.

I suggest that our time on DU would be better spent figuring out how we are going to
counter the awful effects of the propaganda experts rather than singling out various innocent segments of our population who have been victimized.


I was born in 1935 and have only voted for Democrats my entire life, even when some of them were no all that great. I would never vote for a Republican nor would I refuse to vote.