Here's the latest attack on age 55+ voters who are skeptical about Social Security privatization by the Bush Administration and their journalistic shills. In today's Washington Post George Wills
dumps on older Americans:
First he sneers at Democrats (nothing new there), but then he goes after all Americans born before 1950:
"The Democrats' strategy of brute negativism is inherently unstable because it depends on furious hostility to the president's plan from people for whom the plan is irrelevant -- the elderly, all of whom are going to live out their lives under the current system. Because Democrats are counting on confusion among the elderly, Democrats and their media echoes are insisting that they have won the debate and that personal accounts are dead. They know the president probably will win the reform battle if he merely moves the elderly to their proper place on the sidelines during this debate."
Any American who's over 55 is now deemed
"irrelevant" and
"confused" (translation:
senile) if they express any skepticism or opposition to the President's privatization plan.
What's next? Will Karl Rove try to criminalize older voters the same way he criminalizes African-American, low-income and Latino voters?