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I think the point is that those two hundred are Boomers. The rest of the boomers are broke.
Yeah it's easy to get mad at boomers. It's also easy to forget that medicare and social security are under attack. The divisionthat matters isn't between generations, it's between the rich and the poor.
https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/as+a+whole
You are insufferable.
"Every single one of them?"
No that's not how voting works. That's never how it has worked. It DOESN'T REQUIRE all of them.
Almost no one is DIRECTLY blaming all the boomers, We're just pissed at them because they've done LESS THAN NOTHING to help these problems. Boomers told us to bootstrap it.
Where's our empathy?? Where the FUCK is theirs?! It is totally fine to dislike someone willfully ignoring problems even if they didn't directly create them.
Nailed it.
This is occurring specifically because of the choices they collectively made.
It's hard to be sympathetic.
Since I agree with you, I'm interested in your opinion of where a potential cut-off point would be. Say X% of people between the ages 18 and 25 get into a car crash yearly, when is it okay to assume that because you are between 18 and 25 you shouldn't be allowed to drive? Is it when X = 75, lower/higher or is there never a point for you and you'd still prefer to judge an individual?
Not that it has any relevance to the rest of this thread, but that’s exactly why some states require people over a certain age (say 75) to retest for their drivers license. So you assess the individual while looking at data on the whole group.
Same could be said about this broader topic. It’s unfair to lump an entire group together like this. It would be like saying that since most young people don’t vote in elections, we should just disregard that entire block of voters.
It's always a class war, anything else is a distraction.