Letters to the Editor
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Choose! Past or future!
it seems that if you're over 40, you support Clinton, and if you're under 40, you support Obama. It's an unscientific study, to be sure, but I do think this election really is a choice between the past and the future.
-- PeteyG
I don't know how you choose the past or the future. I hope it does not mean Obama reminding all people over 40 that their past 40 years have been useless and that they unfortunately have no future.
Demographics are another name for tribes and human beings love to create tribes based on anything - race, nationality, sports team, sexual preference, political affiliation, fashion sense, you name it and of course age.
It has nothing to do with past or future. It has to do appealing to a specific demographic. In this case based on age.
The choosing the "past or future" slogan has to be one of the stupidest slogans since "compassionate conservatism" and actually we'd all be better off if were better at being here and now rather than in the past or future.