Baby boomers comprised a larger share of voters in 2024, accounting for 32%, but they are trending lower after hitting a peak of 36% in 2016.
Ocasio-Cortez, a millennial herself, expects the younger generation will soon tip the scales in American politics.
“Millennials are not punk kids anymore. We’re grown adults with mortgages and kids,” she said. “And we—that generation is starting to be decisive at the polls. And there is anger at being ignored, sidelined, having our economic futures mortgaged by the generations that came before us on everything from the economy to climate. And we’re taking the reins.”
From global warming to debt crisis to lack of affordable health insurance (all intentional), Boomers have definitely overstayed their welcome.
It’s a little bit boomers vs. millennials, based on the boomers and the millennials I have encountered
… Let’s unpack this.
Person points out this is just another case of wealthy and powerful people stirring up trouble between two groups of people. This is easy because people are easy to trick. If the headline is to be believed, even AOC, who isn’t stupid, believes boomers are the source of the problem.
You point out that, based on the people you know, there’s a conflict between boomers and millennials.
but… that’s not proof that the source of the problem actually IS either group. It’s still the case that this conflict is caused by a third group of people who have a vested interest in making sure the poors fight each other.
Okay yes let’s unpack it, please
What percentage of “the people who have a vested interest in making sure the poor fight each other” do you think are boomers, and what percentage are millennials? And of those millennials, what percentage of them are acting on behalf of, and/or dependent on a mega powerful boomer?
And to be fair I said a little bit.
There are millennials in this US administration. The fuck are you talking about?
It’s class. Not age.
Does “on behalf of a powerful boomer” include…ya know…having an inheritance from them and working in the family business?
Okay dude, Millennials are no better than boomers, got it. Everyone is the same in every generation…only once you achieve $500k per year do you become hateful and evil
Money is the only thing that corrupts, and the evidence I see of younger people voting differently than older people, and younger people next to me in the protests means nothing. The kind loving boomer neighbors of mine are probably also in that crowd of protestors somewhere, I just missed every single one of them when I looked…
You’re not wrong that it’s rich vs poor first and foremost. But you’re lying to yourself if you think boomers aren’t actively harming younger generations, and that younger generations are totally fine with it.
Cool, thanks for the utterly useless straw man reply where you reduce my own more nuanced take into this idiotic “oh okay so then it must be this cartoon version of what you said”.
I’m not taking the side of boomers at all. They’re uniquely deranged and damaging to us all, and have been that way for decades.
Take whatever you want from my POV, not a lot of point in discussing with you further.
I mean all I literally tried to say was “it’s a little bit millennials vs. boomers”, which you seemed to take as a direct challenge, and had to “well acccccctually” argue against, for some reason. I actually never disagreed with your overall point, I only “straw manned” when it was clear you’d dug your heels in and weren’t reading the actual point of my comments and needed everything in black and white. You really weren’t presenting your argument with much wiggle room at all.
Ya know, I wasn’t reading your comments carefully, you’re right. That’s my bad, apologies.
What pathetic percentage do they take up in your gerontocracy?
I don’t have the first clue how I’d determine something like that. Do you? I’m talking about the US Presidential administration.
Maybe you’re talking about Congress + the actual presidents we always get? The elected officials themselves are all old as fuck.
Wonder how many of those congressional staffers are millennials? And the executive cabinet, etc., all the many many unelected creatures.
Your take is shallow and bad and betrays a poor understanding of our government and who actually does the “work” in it.[Edit - I didn’t say anything here I disagree with, but I’m bringing an unnecessary tone to discussions in this thread where I’m not even adequately reading the stuff I’m replying to, so apologies on the hostility at the end, I’ma chill out]
Uhh, yeah. Look at how many senators and Congress people there are, then see how many of them are over the age of 50, then divide that number by the total and multiply by 100. Are you 12?
What you evidently don’t understand is every person you’re describing has large teams of people working for them, and they are by and large ages where the brain still fires on all cylinders.
Our present gov is rife with millennials, you sound real uninformed or you’re not thinking very hard about who actually does the nitty gritty in the government. The elected official is the tip of an iceberg, and there’s a lotta icebergs.
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