From: roamingfreeman@gmail.com   
      
   On Thursday, January 8, 2015 at 1:39:32 PM UTC-5, Free Spirit, Chief of   
   Quixotic Enterprises wrote:   
   > On Thursday, January 8, 2015 1:07:36 PM UTC-5, Mike Painter wrote:   
   > > On Tue, 6 Jan 2015 21:14:15 -0800 (PST), "Wise TibetanMonkey, Most   
   > > Humble Philosopher"  wrote:   
   > >    
   > > >On Tuesday, January 6, 2015 10:05:05 PM UTC-5, BTR1701 wrote:   
   > > >> In article <52e2fe43-c466-429d-a175-2613da6c6de7@googlegroups.com>,   
   > > >>  "Wise TibetanMonkey, Most Humble Philosopher"    
   > > >>   wrote:   
   > > >>    
   > > >> > Why the elderly? Because they vote.   
   > > >>    
   > > >> So vote yourself. That's how the process works. If you and people like    
   > > >> you choose not to vote, you can't complain that the people who *do*   
   vote    
   > > >> get what they want.   
   > > >   
   > > >Nothing can match the loyalty of the elderly voting machine. The   
   revolution will start when Social Security runs out money as the elderly   
   population grows.   
   > >    
   > > From what I have seen, this is sadly true.   
   > > You would think that an aging population would vote to make sure they   
   > > are secure in their old age and force moving money from killing people   
   > > to healing them.   
   > >    
   > > You would think that until you hear the older poorer part of the   
   > > population reacting to sound bites and voting for the people who are   
   > > taking the money away from them.   
   >    
   > The politics of fear work best. Fear of losing the socialist system they   
   enjoy.   
   >    
   > Thoughts of the future are avoided. The fact that they are leaving a messy   
   planet for the grand kids is not part of the political rhetoric.   
      
   I've to say I got nothing against the honorable elderly since I'm a "member of   
   the club" myself. But I don't know how the "wise elders of the tribe" became   
   the blind members of the "democratic process."   
      
   Some are genuinely wise but it's not the majority that votes. Perhaps it's the   
   democratic process that corrupts everything, or --to be more precise-- we may   
   blame party politics for it. Perhaps it's the car that isolates them from the   
   issues going on in    
   their community, such as broken sidewalks and corruption.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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