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by fragola 3604 days ago
>One huge downside would be that older people tend to skew to the more conservative end of the political spectrum, and can end up drowning out the voices of the young.

This is actually not true [0]

[0]http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/15/getting-more-li...

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Your citation actually supports that claim:

" At any given time older people are likely to be more conservative than contemporaneous young people. But relative to themselves as young people, today’s older folks have generally become more liberal than they once were."

It seems your thinking of the latter half of that quote, but the claim was regarding the first half.