• alvvayson@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    People lose their mind as they get older. But blaming them gets us nowhere.

    Boomers also elected Clinton, Obama and Biden.

    Yeah, I am more progressive than the average boomer.

    But there are also alt-right millenials and Gen Z.

    Age based politics is dumb and will never succeed. It really only appeals to a small minority of people.

    I’m not going to throw my parents under the bus and neither are most people.

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        1 year ago

        Two of which are Boomers, one of which gave us radical fascist talk radio and handed all news media over to corporations.

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        1 year ago

        That’s a weird way to show those statistics. Young people don’t vote in general, unless they feel the need to. Young people are going to vote a certain way but that’s who shows up to vote.

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          I think you deleted your comment. But I don’t think it’s weird at all. If what you say is true than it makes the impact of the choice gap between older and younger voters even more important. Clearly younger voters had to come out in massive force and extremely aligned to overcome the huge conservative bias of their older voting group peers in those elections.