• treefrog@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Yup.

    ‘Boomers’ is an ageist term at this point. We have to judge people as individuals. Not based on race, age, or generation.

    Shifting blame for what a few elites have done over decades and decades, onto an entire generation, is, as you said, a distraction.

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      Except Boomers, as a whole, swallowed right-wing bullshit and voted again and again for politicians and policies that fucked things over for future generations to come. They enjoyed the post-war economic boom fueled by socialist government policies and then promptly shut the door on their children and grandchildren by killing those same socialist programs. Time and time again, they fell for corrupt conmen, ultimately leading to the election of Trump and a resurgence in fascism.

      No, not every boomer voted for right-wing assholes, but virtually every boomer fails to take responsibility for the current economic environment, choosing instead to blame immigrants, minorities, politicians, or China. No wonder Trump appealed to them.

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        People lose their mind as they get older. But blaming them gets us nowhere.

        Boomers also elected Clinton, Obama and Biden.

        Yeah, I am more progressive than the average boomer.

        But there are also alt-right millenials and Gen Z.

        Age based politics is dumb and will never succeed. It really only appeals to a small minority of people.

        I’m not going to throw my parents under the bus and neither are most people.

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            Two of which are Boomers, one of which gave us radical fascist talk radio and handed all news media over to corporations.

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            That’s a weird way to show those statistics. Young people don’t vote in general, unless they feel the need to. Young people are going to vote a certain way but that’s who shows up to vote.

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              I think you deleted your comment. But I don’t think it’s weird at all. If what you say is true than it makes the impact of the choice gap between older and younger voters even more important. Clearly younger voters had to come out in massive force and extremely aligned to overcome the huge conservative bias of their older voting group peers in those elections.

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        Boomers as a whole? What does that actually mean because Boomers voted around how everyone except the super young generations who vote, vote. It’s the same percentage, trump didn’t win the popular vote the first time, he lost by millions of votes.

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        1 year ago

        This is the same thing I heard boomers say about the “Greatest” generation, and now I’m hearing the same thing about Gen X and Gen Y, too, though.

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          As a GenX-er: You’re hearing things about us? Usually, we get ignored. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard stories about “the generations: Boomers, Millennials, and Gen Z” as if we don’t exist.

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            Same, and I’m Gen X. What I sometimes hear (from Gen Z and Gen Y) is the usual BS narrative about how we (all of us, apparently) are responsible for things like donnie and the state of the Republican Party in general.

            But yeah, mostly Gen X is completely overlooked. Give it time and I’m sure we’ll be the new boomers when it comes to ageist nonsense.

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      Having a “boomer mentality” means they are selfish and follow the “fuck you, I got mine” and “I got everything handed on a silver platter and nothing changed” rhetoric.

      It hasn’t been solely used to describe the baby boomers for a long time. I know some Gen Zers with the same mentality.