Not all boomer politicians are conservative; not at all. There are boomer politicians on both sides of the aisle; the question is who funds and supports the conservative majority? The answer is boomers AND Gen-X.
It's also the case that much of the funding behind tRumpism is coming from Gen-X-ers like Elon Musk & Peter Thiel. The millenial generation has folks like Joe Lonsdale (Palantir) Palmer Luckey (Anduril) also contributing big bucks to tRumpism. Voters aged 45-64 (mostly Gen-X) went for tRump over Harris 52% to 46%. tRump and his fellow conservatives couldn't have won without them.
And look at that 18-44 cohort! Between 2020 and 2024, men shifted towards tRump by SIXTEEN PERCENT!
Much of it we’re proud of. The Civil Rights Movement, Feminism, civil rights for the LGBTQ community have all been in the service of inclusion. Then there’s rock ‘n roll. You’re welcome. 😋
Insisting that somehow, as they took away anything that allowed us to do the same as them, but failing to see that they were solely responsible for the fact no one can.
@bijouxbroussard to be fair, many people during the peak of this iniitial period (Civil Rights Act, birth of rock and roll, the first LGBT bill to become law, et al.) — such as MLK Jr., John Lewis, Betty Friedan, LBJ, JFK, Earl Warren, John Conyers, Chuck Berry, Sister Rosetta Tharpe — were not boomers, but from the "Silent", "Greatest", "Lost" and "Interwar" generations
for the most part Boomers were still being born during the original CIvil Rights and Second Wave feminisim era, the early rock and roll era, and the first pro-LGBT and pro-civil rights SCOTUS decisions era, never mind the era of more regional LGBT protection gains with people like Harvey Milk and Ed Koch, and proposed bills which didn't become law (Bella Abzug was a sponsor of one in 1974)
no one is saying every Boomer is bad though, every generation has had and will have bad apples, because humanity intrisincally sucks for the most part
Boomers still have the most numbers in the Senate right now, and Generation X has the most numbers in the less consequential House at the moment
@SnickersDOM You’re not wrong, but in the same way that computers and the internet have been part of the identity of younger generations (even though that beginning technology was created by earlier generations), the drive of “inclusionism” and the need to right a lot of society’s wrongs has been that of young boomers.
And yes, alas, people are blaming boomers in general, even though in the clusterf*ck that has become the renewed fascist movement of the United States, all generations are represented. Just like all are represented among the resistance.
A whole generation can't be held responsible for anything. All kinds of people born in the postwar years have done all kinds of things -- most of them without achieving positions of great power. Politicians or CEOs born during the baby boom were not leading on behalf of their generation, but for their own individual reasons. So "boomer power" doesn't make sense to me as a concept.
@ScreamingFox Speaking as a Gen X, you aren't wrong. All i can say is that an abused person either does what their abuser did, or the exact opposite. That doesn't mean we shouldn't try to be better as a whole.
Is there a sudden difference between ages 51-55 and 62 plus? Ageism is what it is and animosity towards an entire group of people based on age is another form of division and discrimination.
@FoxyGoddess "This is my only issue with black people." "This my only issue with women." "This is my only issue with gays/lesbians." "This is my only issue with Jews." "This is my only issue with (fill in ethnicity)."
All said just as earnestly. But not acknowledging that such groups aren’t monoliths. 😞
So, according to that, most US politicians over the last few decades happen to have been in some particular age-range.
Errr, was that never the case in the past?
It did not happen before all this craze for categorising people by slang terms like "boomer", as if items in a supermarket?
Politicians of any persuasion at any time reflect their contemporary society, and always have done, so all that Sociology-by-Facebook does not say anything new or surprising.
Politicians of any persuasion at any time reflect their contemporary society, and always have done, so all that Sociology-by-Facebook does not say anything new or surprising
