Media Post-Brexit: Ban Old People Voting

“We take pensioners’ driving licences away."

6.27.2016

Older people, other than those who never matured past Woodstock, tend to be wiser than young people. So it makes sense that older people overwhelmingly vote conservative. No wonder why leftists now want to block them from voting.

Post-Brexit, the leftists in the media, as well as the general populace, have been calling to ban older people from voting, because they had the gall to use their wisdom when exercising their God-given right to vote.

Thanks to Breitbart London, sample headlines of this deceitful sentiment from mainstream publications can be read below:

“How old people have screwed over the younger generation” from theIndependent, and “EU Referendum Results: Young ‘Screwed By Older Generations’…” from the Huffington Post.

VICE gave us: “Old People Seem Intent on Fucking Us Over Forever”, and, “Brexit Proves Baby Boomers Should Get Less of a Vote”.

GQ Magazine went all out, producing: “WE SHOULD BAN OLD PEOPLE FROM VOTING”. Writing about “them” as if the older generations are some foreign species, the reasons given by the author included:

“The EU referendum result will have less effect on older people”; “Over 65s read the Daily Mail”; “There was no ‘golden age’ of Britain”; and “We take pensioners’ driving licences away… why not their right to vote?”

"Aside from a pathological preoccupation with immigration," writes GQ, "the most pervasive reason for the grey army voting Leave is an inarticulate longing to return to the hazy memories of an idealised Britain that never was.

"At its core, this is the last stand of old people who have been frightened to death by cynical right-wing media empires and the demagogues who enable them," wrote political blogger Kevin Drum.

On Twitter, the general public didn't get much cheerful:

The great irony behind this supposed display of young wisdom: only 36 percent of 18-to-24 year-olds eligible to vote made it to the polls, according to YouGov poll. Either they're just too smart to waste their time with something so primitive as voting (since only stupid old people do it) or are too busy watching Season 6 of the EU-subsidizedGame of Thrones to care.