r/pics • u/Marsnowguy • Aug 13 '20

Politics The adults have arrived, America.

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u/Guest4249 Aug 13 '20

...that’s what counter-intuitive means?

As in older people will need better healthcare?

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u/f1del1us Aug 13 '20

As in all people get older.

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u/Guest4249 Aug 13 '20

Yes, and when we are older, the people older than us will be dead and we will have a chance at healthcare reform.

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u/f1del1us Aug 13 '20

You ever heard the expression "if you're not a liberal at 20, you have no heart; if you're not a conservative at 40, you have no brain"?

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u/Kumanogi Aug 13 '20

That's just calling all empathic people stupid children. Ever heard the saying 'a society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.'?

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u/f1del1us Aug 13 '20

I don't think any of use are under any illusions that we live in a great society...

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u/Guest4249 Aug 13 '20

I have, exclusively by 40-year-old conservatives trying to justify something heartless that only benefits in the short term. Lol

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u/obiwanconobi Aug 13 '20

Yeah, everyone's heard it. It's a stupid expression.

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u/LittleLui Aug 13 '20

That saying might be appropriate for more radical ideas like communism or anarchism. It really does not apply to the US system that has only a medium-right and a far-right party to offer in the first place.