Americans have a real problem with older people and the concept of aging. The culture is rife with ageism.
It’s going to official bite us in the ass if we don’t address it. Wow.
I come from a culture (this part of me is VERY Nigerian) where “respect your elders” is pounding into your psyche. I’m glad.
I watch the way people talk about older people. The way we treat getting older, the fear, the denial, the sadness, the envy, 😮💨, it’s such a problem, smh.
We saw a nice dose of this in the US during the height of the pandemic when people didn’t care if the elders died. How they are useless, vapid and have no purpose, by definition. “Get out of the way, make room for me, a younger person”. Our elders!
Remember?? I do.
Note: My mother is journeying through Alzheimer’s and the jokes I’m hearing about the disease enrage me. 🖕🏾🖕🏾
I also know what it looks like. That’s not what I see with Biden. I see an old slower man, who still can and is willing (for some reason) to work, even if he has his moments.
And some of you hate that he is just old because you hate older people. Period. You need to address that with yourself NOW. And some of you are weaponizing the fact that he’s older in an awful way (while ignoring that Trump is, too, just in a different way).
NOTE: I’m not a democrat (I’m an independent who leans faaaaaar left on most issues…fuck a label, though. And I don’t move with a herd…sometimes that sucks, but it’s the way I am. I like my freedom and space) and I’m not a fan of Biden, though I respect (not agree with all!) his decades of work.
One more thing:
I wouldn’t judge Biden one bit if he decided to abandon the American people to the wolves surrounding us & just went to live the rest of his life in peace, quiet and luxury because for all his decades of effort, sooo many of you have been overly judgmental assholes to him.
Ijs. 😊
Like he promised he would the first time he ran? We’re so ageist, we’re about to elect another geriatric president one way or the other. I partially agree with you though - it’s practically elder abuse to elect either one of them for such a stringent job. We should be taking better care of them!
