It takes a very close look at the results of the recent elections in the German state of North-Rhine-Westphalia to find among the list of “Others” the tally for “The Greys”: they got 0.1% of the vote. In other words, one in a thousand voted for them, although they claimed to speak for that state’s retired and elderly people – over 30% of the population. “Generation consciousness,” unlike the “class consciousness” of old, is obviously not a defining factor in people’s political preferences. Many more “Greys” voted for the Greens than for their “own” party.
It takes a very close look at the results of the recent elections in the German state of North-Rhine-Westphalia to find among the list of “Others” the tally for “The Greys”: they got 0.1% of the vote. In other words, one in a thousand voted for them, although they claimed to speak for that state’s retired and elderly people – over 30% of the population. “Generation consciousness,” unlike the “class consciousness” of old, is obviously not a defining factor in people’s political preferences. Many more “Greys” voted for the Greens than for their “own” party.