The phrase 'respect your elders' to be abandoned after elders' recent poor performance

[Soph0571]

The phrase ‘Respect your elders’ is to be abandoned and will no longer feature in common usage after recent terrible decisions by elders have led to the world becoming demonstratively more appalling.

“I think that after voting for both Brexit and Trump, elders are no longer in a place to demand unconditional respect,” said Simon Williams, Head of the International Phrase and Idiom Council.
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Well, obviously, not all elders are undeserving of your respect,” he said.

“Your mum, for example, had to put up with an awful lot from you over the years and she still seems to love you, so I would suggest that she is still fully deserving of your unconditional respect.

“However, a red-faced angry old man shouting about things he doesn’t understand on a nationally televised politics show quite obviously is undeserving of anyone’s respect.

“So, play it by ear and we’ll see how it goes.”

[link:http://newsthump.com/2018/10/12/the-phrase-respect-your-elders-to-be-abandoned-after-elders-recent-poor-performance/|

The best satire always makes a valid point....

[Trust Buster]

1. Nonsense, many elders did not support this garbage. They don't deserve to be disrespected.

[john657]

2. +1000. n/t

[Hortensis]

3. :) Sympathize, but "Don't respect fools and scoundrels" is a better one.

Btw, President Johnson officially warned congress, and the nation, about global warming in 1965. Some elders have been wise on that subject that long, and longer.

And wise people, among them elders, have been warning about dangerous signs of authoritarianism, even fascism, in government ever since the 1980s now. W may seem to have been an incompetent clown, but when we think of his administration we'd be much better off realizing it was merely setting an authoritarian stage for this one, which is setting the stage for what comes next if we aren't able to stop it.

For better and worse, elders are the most reliable voters. Wise or still as stupid at 70 as at 27, experience has at least taught some that they don't dare not vote.