What do the BREXIT vote & the two 2016 presidential
candidates have in common? They are all
ghastly reflections of the price we’re paying for marginalizing our older people,
for transforming them from sources of perspective & ideally wisdom into a sorry herd of
frightened sheep corralled by Fox News, aided & abetted by other network news channels.
It's 2:30 a.m. & wee small hours of the morning thinking has me pondering David Cameron's Grannie, because I bet she would have pointed out
to her grandson the folly of allowing the catchy term BREXIT go unchallenged –
countless times, what did it tell the British people? Exit Britain!
She would have inspired the Remain party to blanketed the UK with signs showing the
classic circle & slash over the self-fulfilling our worst fears word. All over the UK, grandparents would have pointed out to
children & grandchildren that the elites might be establishment, but were
also correct when it came to the fallout of a vote to leave. And no self-respecting Grannie or Nan would
EVER have trusted anyone with such intentionally ridiculous hair!
Can you imagine a Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton walking
off with their party’s presidential nominations a generation ago, before our senior
citizens were put on permanent mute? Trump
wouldn’t have made it past the first primary because Frank Wallace would have
chewed out Chris for not asking serious questions & Tadeusz Brzezinski would have read the Riot Act to Mika for
letting Trump baffle her with bullshit.
And Hillary – what self-respecting oldster would tolerate such a empty suit getting the Democratic nod? Oh, her grandparents might have doted on her, but the rest of America's grannies would have seen through the blatant DINO ways, Hill's obvious dedication to Wall Street over Main Street, and been chilled by her apparent lack of any ethical core.
And Hillary – what self-respecting oldster would tolerate such a empty suit getting the Democratic nod? Oh, her grandparents might have doted on her, but the rest of America's grannies would have seen through the blatant DINO ways, Hill's obvious dedication to Wall Street over Main Street, and been chilled by her apparent lack of any ethical core.
Today's docilized oldsters elderly ancients are no longer
sources of the wisdom of age, no longer provide the perspective only
possible with decades upon decades of getting through
genuinely tough times, experiencing extreme loss
& deprivation & surviving.
Now, they've been transformed into a
major part of the problem. An eminently intelligent friend of mine
said yesterday that come Election Day, he'll hold his nose & vote
for Trump. Pressed for his reason, the
only one he gave was his DEEP, apparently bottomless loathing of Hillary. Like so many across The Pond, this smart man plans on voting with his heart, not
his head.
If this was a generation ago, the vote in Britain, the
triumph of Trump & the steamrolling of HRC would never have happened
because our parents, grandparents, older friends
& family would have pointed out each particular
emperor/ess had no clothes. And we would
have listened.
BREXIT, Trump & HRC - scary examples of what I've been bleating about for years: the terrible price we'd pay for marginalizing our seniors, cutting ourselves off from elder wisdom, putting on mute the very generation that's supposed to helping us maintain our balance by insights & observations culled from long lifetimes of experience.
Sadly, no longer my theory. A sorry fact. In each of those cases, in so many more - eyes wide shut.
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