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I hope you are correct, and I hope we are reaching the critical point of old people die and young people coming of voting age that we can elect some politicians

I hope you are correct, and I hope we are reaching the critical point of old people die and young people coming of voting age that we can elect some politicians that care about the voters and not the donors. They say politics is like a pendulum and it seems like we are all the way on the right and it should start going back to the left any day now.

thatoneuser 7y ago
"We are all the way on the right" As someone who is not right, I couldn't disagree more. No major right legislation has been passed and the right hasn't had the same majority power that Obama had since Obama. I think what's currently going on is the left politicians started going way left and people pulled back support. If anything the pendulum is currently swinging towards the right.
jhayward 7y ago
I'll just say, "I hope you old people die soon, please die faster" (paraphrase) is quite a hateful thing to say. Especially since roughly half those older people you want to die actually agree with your preferred policies.
- frankbreetz 7y ago
  This is what we are up against: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-48964736 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-48964736 The future is bleak and the only alternative is a paradigm shift, I don't think the older generation is coming around soon on this
  - jhayward 7y ago
    The mistake here is attributing a particular set of policies to a generation whose only common attribute is when they were born. 'Old' people are not the problem and you will be quite surprised at how many 'young' people have problematic policy views as well. And the lack of shame at wishing for people's death is alarming and repugnant.
    - frankbreetz 7y ago
      Old people are the problem: https://news.gallup.com/poll/234314/global-warming-age-gap-younger-americans-worried.aspx https://news.gallup.com/poll/234314/global-warming-age-gap-y... Maybe it would have been better to say, the younger generation needs to be better represented by politicians as they are the ones who will be suffering. There is only one way this will happen, I am not asking for anything other then nature taking its course. Maybe I was somewhat crass, but wanting a culture shift in a very natural way is neither alarming nor repugnant. If older generations didn't go away, we would still have slaves and society would be run by kings, and countless other out dated policies. The baby boomer generation is larger then most so they have more votes and there out dated views are keeping us from being the best we could be.
      - jhayward 7y ago
        Voting-age people 55 and younger (the youngest boomer is 56) have outnumbered people 56 and over for a long time. And in fact, showed up at the polls in greater numbers in 2016 and 2018 as well. [1] Your disrespect for their humanity is indeed alarming and repugnant, as well as just plain misguided. If we were to accept your claim that a "generation" can be to blame for something, today's politics and policy fall squarely on the younger ones based on their numbers.

thatoneuser 7y ago

"We are all the way on the right" As someone who is not right, I couldn't disagree more. No major right legislation has been passed and the right hasn't had the same majority power that Obama had since Obama. I think what's currently going on is the left politicians started going way left and people pulled back support. If anything the pendulum is currently swinging towards the right.

jhayward 7y ago

I'll just say, "I hope you old people die soon, please die faster" (paraphrase) is quite a hateful thing to say. Especially since roughly half those older people you want to die actually agree with your preferred policies.

frankbreetz 7y ago
This is what we are up against: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-48964736 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-48964736 The future is bleak and the only alternative is a paradigm shift, I don't think the older generation is coming around soon on this
- jhayward 7y ago
  The mistake here is attributing a particular set of policies to a generation whose only common attribute is when they were born. 'Old' people are not the problem and you will be quite surprised at how many 'young' people have problematic policy views as well. And the lack of shame at wishing for people's death is alarming and repugnant.
  - frankbreetz 7y ago
    Old people are the problem: https://news.gallup.com/poll/234314/global-warming-age-gap-younger-americans-worried.aspx https://news.gallup.com/poll/234314/global-warming-age-gap-y... Maybe it would have been better to say, the younger generation needs to be better represented by politicians as they are the ones who will be suffering. There is only one way this will happen, I am not asking for anything other then nature taking its course. Maybe I was somewhat crass, but wanting a culture shift in a very natural way is neither alarming nor repugnant. If older generations didn't go away, we would still have slaves and society would be run by kings, and countless other out dated policies. The baby boomer generation is larger then most so they have more votes and there out dated views are keeping us from being the best we could be.
    - jhayward 7y ago
      Voting-age people 55 and younger (the youngest boomer is 56) have outnumbered people 56 and over for a long time. And in fact, showed up at the polls in greater numbers in 2016 and 2018 as well. [1] Your disrespect for their humanity is indeed alarming and repugnant, as well as just plain misguided. If we were to accept your claim that a "generation" can be to blame for something, today's politics and policy fall squarely on the younger ones based on their numbers.