Why older people shouldn’t vote—and other ideas unpopular with my parents
OLD PEOPLE AREN’T GOOD AT VOTING. I DON’T SIMPLY mean that they don’t vote like I do, or I would also say that old people are bad at watching TV, picking restaurants and gauging my interest in stories about their friends’ children.
No, old people vote shortsightedly, choosing the least progressive outcome. In surveys in the U.S. and the U.K., people over 65—compared with people under 30—were nearly twice as likely to be against gay marriage; twice as
