Boomers have supported, and voted for the status quo and these billionaires for decades upon decades at this point. And are still supporting the dictator Trump. So yeah your take is bullshit.
It’s not boomers vs. millenials, it’s billionaires vs. commoners/workers/have-nots.
MellowYellow13@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
90% of my millennial friends have been voting for the status quo for decades too. We’ll see how progressive they are once they’re the most conservative ones in the room, and they aren’t oh so painfully forced to vote for the status quo.
j4k3@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This oversimplified dichotomy is asinine. No group of people are some monolithic Borg mind. These types of tribalism are toxic useless. Russians would call it convenient idiots. It is tribalistic dogma revealing poor fundamental logic skills typical for a culture derived from the inbred Puritan penal colony European rejects.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
It’s because America uses “first past the post” voting. Look it up. If you immediately realize that no honest intelligent person would support that, you’d be right.
arrow74@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
We’ll see how progressive they are once they’re the most conservative ones in the room
Ah yes the popular myth of becoming more conservative as you get older. It used to be true because you would get a job, have a family, and retire. Suddenly your biggest concern became lower taxes so you could spend that money elsewhere. Rest of the country be damned.
Except now significantly less people are doing those things because they have a lot less money than their parents did.
All growing old has done is made me way more left. I can see and understand so much more about how the world is fucked up.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Me too. I’m saying that they’re currently being dishonest about supporting progressive values, not that they’ll change.
MellowYellow13@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You know how much I heard this myth? Yall still parroting the same bullshit that you get more conservative as you get older, what a fucking joke.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Please see other reply
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Younger generations aren’t much better. Look at the age distribution of Trump voters: navigatorresearch.org/2024-post-election-survey-g… (IDK if this is a good source, feel free to provide one that contradicts it if you find one. But it’s consistent with pretty much every poll I’ve seen on this topic, even in other western countries). The gender split is a lot more pronounced than any generational split.
MellowYellow13@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And boomers still overwhelming support Trump.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Source? That certainly isn’t supported by the post election survey I linked.
Faydaikin@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
But it’s also the Boomers. Although they are slowly dying out.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
It’s also all the other generations who are also MAGA or just don’t vote.
Faydaikin@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
My friend, there is no political side on earth that isn’t guilty when it comes to the sad state the globe is in.
And very few individuals that haven’t indulged in the sin of convenience that keeps the spiral going downward.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Feydaikin with the “both sides” take
GreenShimada@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s that Boomers have participated in, and been behind the wheel, of most of the stupid, enabling moments of the 20th century. They built this world and got pissed when inequality they built to lock up money for themselves wasn’t sustainable.
Then they blame everyone else because they have no self-reflection due to lead levels in their blood causing cognitive impairment and aggressive behavior. My favorite was a meme all over facebook saying “Back in my day we didn’t have plastic soda bottles…” Yeah, who TF changed it, genius? YOU ALL. Sure wasn’t me running all that stuff when I was 6 years old.
Rothe@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Again, you are conflating age for wealth. They got you good with the generational strife propaganda, so you don’t focus on the actual class war problem.
MellowYellow13@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Most of Boomers did said such thing. You are confused as the people you are screeching about.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Trump isn’t just popular with boomers. Plenty of younger people are MAGAs, or just don’t vote.
GreenShimada@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Not at all. Owning a home and a car didn’t used to equate “wealth” in the 60’s. But the middle class and lower middle class certainly perpetuated things like Red Lining and segregating communities. Sure, they got fucked by the Vietnam war, but they also got a Constitutional Amendment to vote starting at age 18 in 1971 and elected fucking Nixon in 1972! Boomers were the fuel for the socio-economic disaster of the 1980s.They invented “greed is good.” They gave up on the dreams of the Hippie movement and sold out.
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah we didn’t go to the trophy companies at 6 years old and demand they start making participation trophies, Deborah. Our generation didn’t start that shit.