Young people receive social security benefits too, like SSDI and survivor payments. I've been on SSDI myself since before I was 30 years old.

That's certainly a take I suppose.

But yeah, let's not shore up Social Security for all Americans including future generations to be able to not go homeless after they suffer a disability or worked until their bodies are broken and just keep the future generations working until they die at work.

Sounds like a great plan there, let's be short sighted to be a petty bitch.

You realize a substantial portion are poor?

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Have you ever heard of selfish altruism?

There are so so so many of these seniors. They made so many of 'em back in the day, the birth chart boomed with goddamn babies!

It is in the best interest of everyone in society south of 55 years old, that the 65+ year olds are taken care of by the State's (if we must have a State, I guess...) social nets, and that they are robust.

Not just because time comes for us all, but because the rest of the system's bullshit would prevent communities from caring for their own seniors without the younger members going destitute and burnt out on their now third job.

Its the 1% vs the working class, not generation vs generation.

There are actually two different groups of boomers, the early born ones, and the later born ones. The latter didn't have the opportunities the former had after WWII. The boomers born from 1960 to 1964 were going to be grouped as Gen X, but that was dropped and they now have a "Generation Jones".

As Jonesers reached adulthood, the United States military draft and involvement in the Vietnam War had ended; thus, they had no defining political cause, as opposition to the war was for the older Boomers.[20] The Woodstock music festival (1969) was a defining moment for older Boomers, whereas Jonesers tend to remember the Watergate scandal (1972–74) and the cultural cynicism it begat.[6] While in high school, members of Generation Jones felt they had just missed the real hippie era.[21] Key characteristics assigned to members are pessimism, distrust of government, and general cynicism.[22][23]

We could do this and all the other things at the same time. If this is one thing on a laundry list of fixes, would you object to it just because you aren't getting social security yet? Singling out an aid for people to not get because of who they are and/or because you won't get that benefit is what we complain about with MAGA.

I put this next to the quote from veterans who say "I don't agree with what you say, but I fought for your rights to say it." I'm right with you on blaming Boomers for where we are and why, but I'll still support making sure old people don't have to decide between rent, meds, or food. Even if some of them are hypocrites who made the world this way after being handed everything.

Yes, let’s make seniors, the most coddled generation in history, our first priority.

Straw-man argument. The article never says it's his first priority. It says it is a top priority, not the top priority. Bernie keeps a lot of irons in the fire and works on a lot of issues at the same time.

I'm with you, dealing with ice needs to be priority one.

I fear this mindset ignores the many elderly people living in dire poverty and precarity, forced to work until their deaths or too ill to do even that. It seems completely counter to the working class solidarity that we desparately need to shift blame for our woes from the ruling capitalist class to the elderly in general.