Could This Be Our Millennial Moment? - Connie Schultz
For those unfamiliar with Connie Schultz: She was a long time columnist for the Cleveland Plain Dealer...until her husband, Sherrod Brown, was elected U.S. Senator from Ohio and it was determined she could not be an unbiased columnist because of that marriage. -- Don
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November 5, 2018 3:21 am
Every student who knocks on my office door on Kent State’s campus has likely noticed the illustrated bumper sticker affixed right above the door handle.
The drawing depicts an older white man of a certain age wearing a suit and glasses and holding a lit pipe. He looks to be of an earlier era. “Mad Men,” maybe, or “Father Knows Best.”
The message, over his right shoulder: “Old people are ruining your life. VOTE.”
Every once in a while, I share a photo of this bumper sticker on my public Facebook wall to spark a discussion about voting. Inevitably, much of the response breaks into two themes:
1. Voting! Yay!
2. Ageism! Shame on you!
To address the second group: No, this is not the same as saying that women, black people or lesbians are ruining America, no matter how many angry right-wing readers claim otherwise, which they do every dang week. No matter what I write about, they find a way to blame women, black people and “the gays.” (P.S. Thanks for reading, folks.)
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