I’ll preface this article by quoting an X’er:

Well, can’t wait for this little bastard to get old. Sucking off the patronage system of a Leftist university system will not last forever. Legions of graduates, realizing their entire education has been wasted on learning to whine, bitch, and moan about things they don’t like and don’t understand, will have an impact and demand an accounting sooner or later. The one consolation of this is small but worthwhile. These folks will always have to suffer under the same things they wish on others.

New York Times: Old People Suck and We Should Take Their Stuff It’s time do away with these societal “grifters” and “stowaways,” says an eminent Yale professor

—MATT TAIBBI

The New York Times on old people:

It is not ageist to ask whether older people should be required to give more to younger Americans… Older Americans favor restrictions on immigration… there is a correlation between age and resistance to policies to halt the overheating of the planet… impose age ceilings on political offices… Older Americans own much of the most desirable real estate… It is not ageist, finally, to impose policies to transfer jobs, houses and wealth down the generational chain.

Yale law professor Samuel Moyn, whom I interviewed once, always seemed generous and reasonable, even when our politics differed. But unless it’s an elaborate meta-joke, the above column and forthcoming book Gerontocracy in America: How the Old are Hoarding Wealth and Power in Americaadvance some of the most intellectually vicious ideas I’ve ever seen. The Godwin’s Law factor alone is a shocker.

Moyn observes that people of years have accumulated money and influence and contrives to end the “tyranny of the old” by having “the elderly divested of political power, wealth, and property,” because reasons. The title of the Times piece, “Older Americans Are Hoarding America’s Potential,” carries the obscene lefty connotation that no one really owns anything and the elderly, by din of living too long to begin with, and having a generally shitty quality of life compared to the young, and voting incorrectly/selfishly (hilarious, in the context of open scheming to seize their savings) and wasting resources “playing for time” for “another day, month, or year among loved ones” makes them lousy stewards of what the author unironically calls “our inheritance,” i.e. their homes and bank accounts.