Crash Course: Calm down, everybody: An ugly election is coming — but younger voters will save us

Stop doom-scrolling about Joe Biden's negatives! The other guy is far worse — and younger Americans get it [View in browser](~/AASU4wA~/RgRm_Se-P0REaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvbjlka3JpOWNqNS8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPXMyZzM0bnB0aW5XA3NwY0IKZRTBohplSZIpA1IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) Your daily update from [Salon](~/AASU4wA~/RgRm_Se-P0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvN3NyYjBpbWdreC8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPXMyZzM0bnB0aW4mbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZRTBohplSZIpA1IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo). Calm down, everybody: An ugly election is coming — but younger voters will save us From Kirk Swearingen: Younger people (members of Gen Z, millennials and even most Gen X voters) would probably prefer a new generation of leaders. Yes, some are probably unhappy about facing a choice between a 77-year-old and an 80-year-old. But they want actual adults in charge, not angry toddlers or wannabe fascists. There's more than enough chaos in the world; we don't need more of it in government. Any reasonable person, of any age, who listens to the media incessantly drone on about Joe Biden's age and perceived mental acuity might scratch their head and wonder why Donald Trump's [stupendously confused and incoherent utterances](~/AASU4wA~/RgRm_Se-P0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvMm90aHU1eTkxbi8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPXMyZzM0bnB0aW4mbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZRTBohplSZIpA1IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) are hardly ever mentioned. [Read more](~/AASU4wA~/RgRm_Se-P0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvOWI2eHEzMXdkNi8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPXMyZzM0bnB0aW4mbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZRTBohplSZIpA1IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo). The moment football died for me — in an ordinary NFL game, 34 years ago In his song "American Pie," Don McLean pinpoints "the day the music died": Feb. 3, 1959, when four early rock and roll luminaries went down together in a plane crash. In my own low-profile journey writing about football, it became no longer possible to consume the sport without a core cringe subsequent to Oct. 22, 1989. That was the day I attended a game between the San Francisco 49ers and the New England Patriots at Stanford Stadium outside Palo Alto, California. [Read more](~/AASU4wA~/RgRm_Se-P0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvNXp3eTd1M2lrYS8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPXMyZzM0bnB0aW4mbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZRTBohplSZIpA1IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) from an excerpt from Salon contributor Irvin Muchnick's "Without Helmets or Shoulder Pads: The American Way of Death in Football Conditioning," just published by ECW Press. 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