Who’d you vote for in the 2020 primaries?
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DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 1 month ago
As a boomer-adjacent 60-year-old, with an adult son living at home, it’s the economy, stupid.
But, more than that, the world has gone to shit. And, no, that’s not the boomer generation’s fault. It’s the fault of the billionaires and the ignorant people of all generations who have voted for Republicans over the past 50 years.
go_go_gadget@lemmy.world 1 month ago
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I maxed out my donation to Bernie and voted for him. In the 40 years I’ve been voting, I’ve never voted for a conservative, or Republican, neither federal, state nor local. I’ve always voted as far left as I can.
unit327@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I’ve always voted as far left as I can
It’s so fucked that this is as far left as you can vote, first past the post is mental. Over here I can vote for the socialist alliance party or the animal justice party and actually have it count for something.
Katana314@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Very good wording: “A conservative, or a Republican”
Speculater@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Damn, you got me. I totally blanked on that primary. Bernie 2.0! Not OP, sorry.
go_go_gadget@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I just ask because I was phone banking for that primary and occasionally I ended up on the phone with a registered Republican for whatever reason. They were cordial and I was able to tell them why I thought Bernie was the best candidate among the Democratic nominees.
You know who was vile though? Registered democratic boomers were furious with me and called Bernie “too radical”.
So I don’t buy it when people try to deflect blame away from boomers for the state of American politics. Registered democratic boomers fight leftists harder than they fight MAGA. 🤷♂️
4am@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
The Democrats really are just republicans trying to “placate the Mr Rogers generations”.
Both parties are filled with ruthless “empathy is weak, every man for himself” assholes. They must be kept as far away from politics as possible.
architect@thelemmy.club 1 month ago
Damn i had a MAGA threaten to rape me when i was texting for him.
majster@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Adult sons living at home is common in European countries where status quo is to the left of your Bernie. So it must be something else. I blame NIMBYs.
Potatar@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Italy is left of Bernie? I’m apparently ignorant, can you please tell me where is that intersection of “left of Bernie” and “adult children lives at home”?
Maybe I don’t understand left of Bernie: Is he far right so left of him is still right?
majster@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I must admit I do not know Bernie’s policies in great detail. What I wanted to say that is that countries with national healthcare, free schooling, paid maternity, sick time, vacation days and such being the law I would refer to being left of Bernie because the status quo in USA is so much to the right.
Even in countries where all of this is provided by the state, being able to afford roof over your head is still a big challenge.
Miaou@jlai.lu 1 month ago
Millennials were not voting 50 years ago.
nexguy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Over the last 50 years includes 0 years, 1 years, even 2 and 3 up to 4 or 5 years ago. Probably even more who knows.
athatet@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Sure but they were alive and voted sometime over the past 50 years. And some of them deffo voted for shit politicians. I’m really not sure what your comment is trying to say.
go_go_gadget@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Their comment is rightfully pointing out the lions share of responsibility Boomers have for the state of American politics.
athatet@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
And I’m trying to point out that generations are a spook meant to divide us instead of us focussing on the actual problem, billionaires.
unit327@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
As an Australian looking at the US political system, it is fucked in a way that voting can never fix. It simply isn’t a democracy in anything other than name.
Over here I can vote for someone other than the two major parties and my vote will actually count for something. In the USA you’re basically throwing your vote in the bin unless you vote for horrible party A or slightly less horrible party B.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Greatest and silent generations laughing their asses off at the boomers taking all the heat for the state of the world. Previous generations would also be laughing if they weren’t dead.
4am@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
We could have turned out and stopped the boomers but we continued to let them out us down and, eventually, rig it against us.
Hanging chads!