*Note GenX doesn't exist to many..we tend to be the forgotten Generation....and we are not "geriatric"..as some might also believe. Just some facts for thought.
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Almost better to be forgotten than to be blamed for all of society’s ills. I’ve no doubt I’ve been blocked for reminding people that we boomers were also prominent in the Civil Rights movement along with the Silents and are represented among those who went through the door first so that others could protest now. We’re even redefining what it means to be "old".
@bijouxbroussard I see this happening and I had to check myself for participating in it at times.
There are terrible people in every generation and I dont believe age automatically makes someone irrelevant.
There are also good and decent people who work hard to fight.
And you are right..I used geriatric because a discussion started on twitter yesterday claimed boomers had been in charge for 3 decades and it was time for millenials and gen z to get in on it. And i dont disagree about young people..but they skipped a whole generation(lumped us with boomers) ...forgot we existed and then claimed we were all too old.
@JaggedLittlePill @JustGoneNow I appreciate that. One of the last ways people seem to generalize is against people they think have had too few or too many birthdays. There’s one poster here whom I’ve always liked, but he has a real blind spot about "boomers", like he thinks we’re all old white men who have ruined the world. He’s usually a fair person so I’ve kind of dismissed it as his thing and try not to take it too personally. The funny thing is, a lot of people don’t even know what the terms mean. My younger sister who’s GenX (1974) has been "Ok, Boomer”’d, too. 🙄
Generalizing in general isn't often very useful, but if I am going to generalize, the right wing is the existential enemy of humanity, not Boomers (or any other age group, solely on the basis of the age bracket alone). There's plenty of QAnon Zoomers and aspiring Duggar Millennials just waiting to ruin the planet for instance.
One of the last ways people seem to generalize is against people they think have had too few or too many birthdays.
Assessing one's fitness for political office should really rely on a much broader spectrum of assessments, perhaps including cognitive testing, mental health evaluations, stricter financial disclosures (perhaps more than just disclosing, actually disqualifying), maturity testing (if there is a way to do that), rational thinking testing (likewise). These things also need some way to guard against a candidate lying in their answers or otherwise gaming the battery of assessments.
All of this should occur before one can even get on a ballot, not after one has been elected.
But there is a mountain of electoral reforms that need to happen in the US, prequalifying candidates is just a fraction of it.
