The likes of Tankersley are dangerous because he disguises his unjustified hatred of a group of people by playing into what is today's seemingly ONLY tolerated prejudice in the US, ageism that risks the safety and security of not only older Americans but of younger Americans.
Jim Tankersley is a Boomer Basher, an ageist, who blames everything wrong with the world today on Baby Boomers and fully intends to support any government action that strips them of their Social Security or Medicare benefits. (And he's not so young, certainly old enough to know better as a self identified Gen Xer).
Jim Tankersley is not unique, no hater ever is. Instead Mr. Tankersley is trying to self-promote and promote the trend of hatred and discrimination against older Americans ranging from blame-articles that identify Baby Boomers as US society's "Problem" to government policies that take that misidentified "Problem" as the group who should be singled out to be deprived of assets, access and healthcare as the solution to the "problem."
It's argued here that the ageist trend is not only without merit, but represents a readiness to scapegoat and brutalize the Baby Boomer population that will also leave future generations in a worse position.
Today's ageism is no different from any other hate language or prejudice that has governmental and media support of scapegoating a specific group of citizens.
For instance, you'll notice that Boomer Bashers like Tankersley in his article don't discuss all government "entitlements" which include Medicare, government employee benefits, Veterans benefits, social security including disability and Obamacare federal government contributions in the form of premium assistance but instead focus on social security payments for the old and Medicare which primarily benefits the old.
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