Fox News & co have spent decades training their target demographic to hate and fear anything that Democrats even pretend to like. There's nothing particularly age-inherent about it other than said demographic being both wealthier and less educated and thus a better group to target with the associated nonsense grifting.

I would hope that liberal young people (and we millennials) wouldn't be against paying for old people's health insurance at all. The hardest part of believing in a principle is doing so when you aren't benefitting from it.

While I have little patience for Fox News lemmings of any age, I have noticed that the relative lack of older folks in our daily "internet trenches" has caused the digital zeitgeist to take on a distinct anti-elderly tone. From lighter- hearted mockery, to blaming a nebulous organized "boomer" class for birthing every modern sin of civilization, and everything in between.

In any event, as more internet literate adults experience the full lifespan, it may create a corrective trend.

By the way, nearly every reply in this thread has been more informative and thought-provoking than the original article on Substack. A really interesting thread to follow, thanks to the contributors.

If you abandon your ideals when it conflicts with your own self-interest, it is not ideology at all, just self-interest. You are criticizing integrity here. such as it is..

A lot of old people have made peace with death. Not all, but many