Embracing ageism! Why we have retirement.
They’re wrinkly, adorable, wise, and just a little bit racist. They’re old people. They tell the world’s greatest bedtime stories. They know how to cook everything from memory. They know how to fix any car built before 1975. They all lived in this crazy hometown that only had uphill hills. But they don’t know how to change their minds.
Can you blame them? They’ve lived through wars, depressions, hostage situations, Winger. The elderly have weathered it all, and if they see the world in absolutes, who are we to stop them?
Except when they want to be President. Then we all should have something to say. If you have a Grandpa, you know what I’m talking about. Think back to the last time you tried to explain something to him. Yeeeeaaah. Now picture that back and forth in the Oval Office. Or worse, on the international stage.
Rumsfeld became Defense Secretary in 2001 when he was 69. Look how good THAT turned out. McCain is already 72. That’s prime senator age for sure, since the senate doesn’t do anything, but President? If there’s anything that President Bush HAS been able to prove, it’s that the President’s decisions actually do impact pretty much everything.
So embrace ageism. If you don’t believe me, just try to explain to your Grandpa that you read this ageist “posting” on a “blog” “online”.
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