politics

Every single generation in the past 100 years has said the same thing. "My generation will fix it when we're in charge".

The God Damn boomers were the hippies from the 60s. What the fuck happened to peace and love?

My generation (Gen X), my goodness, we could see through all the bullshit. We're the original centrists.

Every single one of my children's Gen Z friends are all so woke they never sleep.

Turns out every generation is full of selfish shortsighted dumbasses just like the one before it. Just like "The Greatest Generation". Just like the boomers. Just like Gen X.

Faith in humanity...fading

This is not old versus young, plenty of old heads want what the younger gen wants.

This is class warfare. The Epstein class has been attacking the rest of us for ages with impunity. The first strike came from Senator Joe McCarthy in the 1950s.

I appreciate what AOC does in most respects, but this is a miss for her. We can’t afford this divisive messaging and she needs to be told this.

Accountability to the people for ALL politicians.

She didn't say "boomers", fucking Fortune added that. And they reported this specifically to stir the bogus generational conflict.

AOC should not have mentioned generations at all, she's supposed to be uniting us against the billionaire class, and here she is quoted in a billionaire rag about this. I hope she does better, and soon.

This day and age with a growing positive sentiment toward authoritarianism, anti intellectualism, and fascism, I think some punk would be good. A lot of punk, even.

We're also mad about the corruption, industrial scale pedophilia, and the land theft and genocide. Thats not going away. There needs to be paybacks. The guillotines arent for show. We have criminals to round up.

This framing gets it wrong. It isn’t boomers vs. millennials. It isn’t immigrants vs. citizens. It’s ordinary people fighting over a shrinking share while an extraordinarily wealthy few accumulate more money, assets and political power than they could ever need. Stop turning class problems into generational wars. Tax extreme wealth.

In 1960, minimum wage was $1.00/hour and the price of the average US home was $11,000.00

A Boomer could graduate high school and be living in their own place with no roommates with money they'd earned delivering newspapers.

And there is anger at being ignored

Hey now, being ignored is the Gen X identity, millennials don't get to steal that!

But seriously, although the whole "generation names" stuff is BS, people are influenced by what things are like when they were growing up. People who had access to the Internet when they were kids are naturally going to see the world differently than those who didn't.

It has also been a consistent fact that older voters vote more. So, as "Millennials" get older, they'll probably vote more, like every group does.

The real question is whether those votes will matter. I'm not going to claim that there's no difference between democrats and republicans. But, in the past the democrats and republicans that won their primaries were both heavily constrained in what they were allowed to do after taking office by powerful special interest groups. So, a democrat might be more likely to vote for something like more federal funding for the arts, and a republican might be more likely to vote for something like more tax cuts (without lowering spending of course), neither one would likely vote for an increase in the minimum wage because the people who fund their campaigns don't want that to be considered.

This time, it could actually be different. There's enough anger out there that people who aren't owned by the wealthy are surviving the primary process. Some "traditional" democrats are either finding their courage, or are getting scared of what might happen to them if they don't stand for the things their constituents care about.

We may not be punk kids anymore but we’re definitely still punk.

Yeah we're middle aged punks now!

True to form - Gen X getting skipped over in the discussion again.

So, she didn't say "boomer". But she did frame it as a generational issue.

It really has nothing to do with age. In fact that's backwards. It's about people who have been in power too long, and are coincidentally old. They aren't corrupt because they're old, they're corrupt because they're in power, and they're old because they've been in power a long time. Too long. Bernie is rare because he's avoided becoming corrupt, his age is coincidental.

We need term limits for Congress. That won't stop the corruption but it will mitigate the damage they can do, and help prevent them from becoming entrenched and forming damaging long-term alliances with other corrupt politicians and billionaires.

You might say, "voting is the term limit", but voters are notoriously terrible at spotting corruption, and of course, the politicians do everything they can to hide it.

She’s not wrong…