Apr 9, 2020
Class solidarity > generational solidarity
An impoverished elder has more in common with you and your struggles than a fellow gen xer or millennial or gen z who coasts through life on inherited wealth and privilege.
The reason we think of elders as inherently conservative is because all the progressive and marginalized elders are either dead, or still being systematically silenced.
Incidentally, perhaps we should LISTEN to the elders who have been fighting for positive change since well before we were all born. Maybe we should learn from them and build on the movements they started. Maybe we don’t actually have to reinvent the damn wheel every ten years.
