Truth Sandwich 🥪🇺🇸😷 on Nostr: In a recent thread, I ran into a socialist populist who self-identified as a ...

In a recent thread, I ran into a socialist populist who self-identified as a “feminist” but was more partisan than equalitarian.

They were pushing the ageist narrative in which the evil Boomers are blamed for all that is bad in the world, justifying calls for their speedy demise so that the young can inherit all that wealth and power.

Rather than admitting to greed, they claimed that “everything” is worse for Millennials and Gen Y. Everything?

Some of us remember history, so we know about the huge advances in civil rights that those Boomers and Silents created. We remember how the “good” old days were only good for straight white Christian men.

But these facts were an inconvenient distraction from the narrative of intergenerational economic cannibalism. You can’t eat the old if they aren’t demonized first.

Why do I mention this? Because blatant ageism of this sort is a hallmark of the populist left. It fits in perfectly with populism’s disdain for expertise and experience (both of which take time and are therefore unavailable to the young) and their fetish with authenticity (which favors those with less personal history to hide).

#uspol #populism

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note13ru…pyle

My late father-in-law was born in 1917. It took 3 more years, on this day, for his mother to be eligible to vote.

I was 4 yo when , on this day, MLK Jr & masses citizens marched on Washington.

This is not ancient history. The forces opposing women's & black equality still live.