The hope of boomers everywhere

In what do boomers hope?  That is the question I quickly reason an answer to after seeing this press regarding a Biden rally at The Villages.

Jeff Johnson, the state director for the Florida AARP, believes voters over 65 are more “in play” in this year’s presidential race, largely because of Trump’s handling of the pandemic. In recent weeks, Democrats have seized on this softening of support and have rolled out six ads targeting older voters.

In 2018, according to AP VoteCast, a survey of the American electorate conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago for The Associated Press, older Republicans thought immigration was the nation’s most important issue, while older Democrats said health care was. But this year, with the pandemic, concern about health care has become a top issue for both.

The Trump campaign seems to be paying attention. On Thursday, the president released a video of himself standing on the White House lawn in which he called older adults “my favorite people.” Noting that they are vulnerable to the virus, he asserted with no basis in fact that a medicine he said he was given in the hospital would be free to older people.

“The seniors are going to be taken care of,” he said.

That is not how it has played out so far. Not only has Florida been slammed by the virus, but also no other demographic has been affected more than older people. About 93% of Florida’s 15,100 deaths from the virus have been people 55 and older, and many are scared — and enraged.

“The whole virus thing has hit really hard here,” said Branscome, who pointed out that almost everyone in The Villages moved there from somewhere else. “We can’t go see our families because of COVID. I’m not seeing an end to it. There is no plan. Biden has a plan. He wears a mask. It gives us hope.”

Republicans for Biden says one sign.  When these boomers were more concerned with having to deal with illegals than the plandemic, they were all for Trump.  Now that they are getting nearer to the end the only thing they can think of is their own mortality.  

Their hope lies not in their children.  Their hope lies not in their grandchildren.  Their hope lies not in Christ.  Their hope lies only in passing comfort.  Now that the end is literally near, they are gasping for meaning in a world of their own device that horrifically devalued it.