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Remember when boomers complained that their "shitty kids" won't come for Christmas?
And their "shitty kids" were actually 35yo millennials who were sick of their parents' toxic behavior around their grandchildren? And now the boomers get to die alone because they "fucked around and found out"?
Just replace boomer with MAGA.
I haven't seen my parents in over a decade. Born in '50 & '51 they check all the boxes of the worst stereotypes.
Republican ✓
White ✓
Racist ✓
Bigoted ✓
Ultra-Religious ✓
Limited education ✓
Entitled ✓
Narcissistic ✓
Physically and emotionally abusive ✓
Depended their parents assistance until their mid-30's, kicked their kids out at 18 (17 for me). ✓
I honestly have no clue if they are MAGA or not. I suspect they are because my older sister was pictured in the news at the orange cheetos inauguration.
It's the Republican MO: everyone needs to suffer from everything I've ever had to deal with at a bare minimum. More is fine, but anything less than every single issue I had to deal with (whether I really did, or just think I did, thanks to a healthy victim complex) is unacceptable.
In practice, it looks a lot like the socialism they claim to hate, but only for negativity. Hoard everything good, distribute everything bad.
And the "suffering" is always "I worked hard for what I got" meaning they got an entry-level job working 40 hrs a week that let them buy a house and raise 2.4 kids on a single salary.
One thing that constantly surprised me on reddit was in the personal finance sub, there was a post about this about once a month, give or take. It's just shocking how often it happens. It was in the FAQs because it happened so often.
Can we not generalize entire generations to make it about division? Yes, it's about Maga parents, that's what this article is about. There are good people and really shitty people in every generation. No, I'm not a boomer. Don't fall for the propaganda to have every generation fight instead of going after the real issues.
This. I've seen my share of awful people in every single age bracket. How old is that Fuentes guy, anyway? Or Richard Spencer? Same with a lot of the doofs that threw an insurrection. Many of them seem Gen Y or younger. The incels that fall for the likes of Jordan Peterson or the Elon fanbois - I don't think too many of them fall into the "boomer" category.
Yep, most of the proud boys are young as well and I don't hold it against those generations either. It's the shitty people doing shitty things that we should focus on.
It's nice to see some sanity on here for once. I'm not sure why other social media sites seem to have such issues with nuance. We have a right wing fascist nightmare in this country, and it is not as simple as a singular generation/ boomers. Many many many people in Gen. Z are falling down the alt-right pipeline, there are many conservative and alt millennials
I have also met many kind boomers that are extremely left. Generalizing to specific generational groups is just foolish and doesn't really help solve the problem or identify it correctly.
I bet that part of the reason that boomers get so much flack is because their generation leans right in general plus and I think this is the most important aspect their age group holds and controls most of the wealth in this country. Regardless, though, it's not as simple as a single generation is the problem
I'm not sure how accurate this chart is and it's from 2014, but it looks like it's not that different in ideology. R's are less in every demographic except silent generation which would make their ages 78-95 currently. I wonder how large they would be considering covid and them not taking vaccines plus a natural dying off. Regardless, it's the electoral college that's saving their ass. I would like to see an up to date version of this though.
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2015/04/30/a-different-look-at-generations-and-partisanship/
As far as boomers - yeah, I've known more than a few old hippie boomers in my lifetime that are/were (sadly, some have passed) progressive.
I seem to recall the "Greatest Generation" complaining about boomers in the same way, often for the very same reasons. I'd say being a teabagger spans many generations, all the way down to the youngest of Gen Z. Give it time, and they'll be whining about Generation Alpha or whatever and how they are not coming home for xmas, and all because of the teabaggers' behavior.