Comment on Boomer comics
go_go_gadget@lemmy.world 2 months agoTheir comment is rightfully pointing out the lions share of responsibility Boomers have for the state of American politics.
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.
Australia is basically a exstention of the US, if you vote in anyone who isn’t what the US wants the CIA will make sure they get removed.
You’re right about America but your country is on the same exact path which means your generation is making the same mistakes of not doing anything about it.
Basically I think the Australia can be saved by the people voting but I don’t think the USA system can. We have some problem with gerrymandering in the lower and upper houses, voting is not exactly proportional because of that, but there are actually minor parties and independents sitting in parliament and holding the balance of power. Just this last week the governing Labor party is trying to pass budget and tax reform, which they can only do by getting the leftist Greens party to vote with them. This tax reform shifts taxation away from income and onto assets such as property and shares to make things more equitable.
We have our problems, sure, but an unchallenged head of state and a failing democracy is not one of them. If conservatives or centrists are in government here it’s because the Australian people voted for them, and every person’s vote counted via preference flows if their #1 choice didn’t make it in. If conservatives or centrists are in government in the USA it’s because there was literally nobody else to vote for.
You also vote for the party here, not the prime minister, and the party can throw out their prime minister any time they want. Or the governor general can fire them. Both of these things have actually happened in recent times. As far as I’m aware, Nixon after watergate was the only president to actually lose office and he resigned rather than getting thrown out.
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.
You really need to look at the size difference between Boomers and Silent generation to understand how ridiculous that claim is. Not to mention once Boomers started feeling represented their voting participation rates shot up. They have dominated the U.S. political landscape for well over four decades.
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!
athatet@lemmy.zip 2 months 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.
go_go_gadget@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Tell that to the boomers. 🤷♂️
AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 2 months ago
“And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.”
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah it comes down to the fact that the boomers were the largest generation for 54 years, their reign ending in 2019. So they played a large role in getting us to this fucked up place. And now Millennials are the largest generation, and we need to figure out how to unfuck it.
architect@thelemmy.club 2 months ago
At least half of us are stupid as fuck.