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.

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[–] 52 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

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

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  • [–] 67 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    Make no mistake, Gen-X is part of the problem.

    And I fully expect to be downvoted for my unpopular opinion.

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  • [–] 79 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    In my experience, the older Gen X are not distinguishable from boomers while the younger Gen X are not distinguishable from millenials.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    There is a small overlap between (iirc) 1977-1982 (maybe 76-81) where they are called Xennials.

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  • [–] 32 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    That's where I fall. My life was a Millennial life, not a Gen X life. All the stuff Millennials complain about happened to me first!

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  • [–] 18 points 2 weeks ago* (1 child)

    I managed to catch the dot com bubble within a year of getting a steady job, got laid off, worked overseas because there was no work where I lived, finally decided to move back and took the mortgage crisis straight in the nads. That was nearly a decade of my employment life that was interrupted/nerfed.

    Make no mistake, Gen X has not been well served by the boomers. I'm sure there are greedy fucks in every generation, and the greedy Gen Xers probably got rich earlier and faster than Y and Z, but the systemic shit is a boomer badge to wear.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Yeah, the boomers (most, anyway, though there are always allies in every generation) spent their whole life pulling up the ladder. Gen X was the last generation that had people who could grab on before it got out of reach, and certainly a few with enough grip caught the same lack of empathy that boomers cultivated (like Musk).

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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    What about us mid-Gen X, that were excluded by the Boomers and are very much not millennials?

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  • [–] 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Sadly not a large group, not enough to make an impact.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    Fortunately, we're not alone. We're all in this together, it's a class war. We need to stop framing it as a generational war, and build bridges between the generations not shore up the walls the billionaires have built.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    We're all the problem, which is why generational blaming is just pointing fingers to make oneself feel less accountable.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    Sure doesn't look like we're all the problem equally...

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    That seems to be a male problem, and doesn't even touch on all the other reasons those who would have voted for Harris (or any other blue) didn't. But sure, let's use a gender chart to make a generation point. Everything is correlated if you squint enough.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago* (2 children)

    @Rhaedas@fedia.io saying nothing with gusto lol

    “We’re all the problem” is some “both sides” level victim blaming and erasure of intrinsic context.

    If everyone was “the problem” — There would be no problem.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    It's not a both sides but more a larger scale comment on society as a whole. But fit it however you want to fit it. I could have gone into detail on how not everyone can control the damage they do. Some can absolutely make a large difference by their actions. But as for generations, which is what this thread is mostly about, we all have been a problem during the times when we could have done better. The ones with real power want the infighting among us because it's a distraction, and again, it is our fault if we fall for that again and again.

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  • [–] [S] 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)
  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Seems to go that way Greatest was big, silent was small, boomer was big, X is small, millennials big, Z small, not sure where that leaves Alpha and Beta though, given the birth rates...

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  • [–] 0 points 2 weeks ago

    The smaller generations tend to be transitional between the larger ones around it. They are also a shorter period of time. Gen Alpha will be a sharp decrease due to population decline and will be the most economically split generation. Gen Alpha is still in process and may need to be a longer period of time to accommodate the longer overall transitions occuring economically, socially, and politically.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago

    True to form, people still framing the class war as a generational war.

    Entire generations are not in power, only a few corrupt examples of them. All we've done, all we've ever done, is vote for the "lesser of two evils". That's how we got here. We were all duped, and are still being duped, as the voting record will show.

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