Shorter NY Times: Too Many Old Candidates! Bring on the Young Liberals!
22nd October 2019
The New York Times devoted three full pages of valuable Sunday Review real estate (the full front page and two full inside pages) to a left-wing, ageist, anti-Trump voter lament disguised as a call for the political empowerment of youth via a lowering of the voting age: “They’ve Got The Whole World In Their Hands.” “Old people have the money and the power. Young people have been left out. But for how long?”
As long as the rich old powerful people choose. That’s the way the world works, popular mythology to the contrary notwithstanding. The New York Times, as the propaganda wing of the Coastal Crust, has to tell these bedtime stories constantly in hope that they will be believed.
It’s written by Astra Taylor, a Puffin Foundation/Economic Hardship Reporting Project fellow.
I am not making this up.