Totally fair. I think I overshot a bit with the criticality of my comment, because it is shitty for most of us and it lacked sympathy. All I wanted to say is that we are wasting energy on hating on something we personally can’t affect.
It’s another thing that I saw many people from that generation craving and trying for change. Maybe that’s not your experience. It can be especially hard if you have someone in the family actively believing characters like Trump, Orbán, AfD. I believe most people want what’s best for them and theirs, and it’s usually fear or narrow-mindedness that gets them hooked on populistic rhetoric.
I mean just look at the US politics stage. Boomers are dying out and they are surrounded by bad actors from the genX and millenial groups waiting to take over. It’s in the bad actor’s best interest to have us hating each other. We are losing energy on hating/blaming, all the while we are being divided into groups of age, ethnicity, religion. Who’s best interest is this division?
Jimbo@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Yep. They could easily retire and live a happy successful retirement, in fact they SHOULD but they are literally clinging to power until they die just to make sure the people they hate are as miserable and unsuccessful as possible.