Mastodawn

Low birth rates among the younger generations are a direct function of wealth inequality in America but Boomers aren't ready for that conversation. Do you know how bad you have to abuse a mammal to make it not want to have children?

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lia 2d ago

@Lana Many boomers are ready for the conversation, and they've been having it since they were politically active. The currently younger generations are statistically far more right-wing than baby boomers ever were.

As you correctly identified, it's never been a generational conflict but an economic one, so why walk back on that and frame it as "boomers are the problem" again?

Objectively and observably, tons of boomers are on our side here.

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𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"2d ago

@lianna quick question, which cohort age group has been holding every major political and economic lever since at least 1976?

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Jestbill

@Lana @lianna Said it before, I'll say it again and again: Boomers all hit the job market together. The best strategy to have a life was to keep one's head down and work. That's what they learned about life and you're not going to change 'em.
They had already outdated prewar (Hoover) economics preached at them even while benefiting from the New Deal and aftermath.
All you can do is to outvote them.

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lia 1d ago

@Jestbill @Lana This applies to all working-class conservatives, not 'boomers' as a nebulous, made-up group.

'Boomers' are also the ones who protested the Vietnam war and laid the foundation for post-war socialist movements. While one could (disingenuously) call younger generations the 'Tate generation' and make a point that 20-somethings directly caused the rise of the alt-right and Trump himself via 4chan et cetera.

Blaming reactionary politics onto an age group is exactly what they want – a petty squabble between generations instead of actual left-wing politics that examines the classes at play here.

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Lucy B 1d ago

@lianna @Jestbill @Lana
@msbellows

If we want to get into “blaming generations,” we’re not really talking about boomers. The ones that are over 80 that are clinging to power and wealth with all their might are part of what’s usually called the Silent Generation. LOL.

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Jestbill 1d ago

@lianna @Lana I've often made the point that a 1946 car is way different than a 1966 car so the whole idea of a "generation" is suspect.
I like, though, to highlight the economic conditions when different people hit the job market. Moderns who lived in an age of low inflation are angered at anything above 2%. I seem to remember 1965-1970 or so and laugh.