very very widebeam (friendly) subtoot, generational pol, cw: family-issues adjacent
ok, it's cool when you talk shit about the boomers, i've heard y'all talk about your families and some of you are fucking heroes for surviving and transcending them
just when you generalize too hard remember there is someone in your presence who is not only a penitent gen xer who has caucused with you kids for a long time, but a dago-ass mama's boy
dunno about your folks but mine is a devoted award-winning educator who had a friend die at kent state and worked for forty fucking years to open kids minds
and i know she gave at least one kid the intellectual toolset necessary to break free from conservative christianity, because friends, that kid wrote this
and she's cheered for me from the day i told her i was dating a boy and probably gay-or-something and hung out with people who pretended to be animals
some boomers are, to quote from the book of my people, kickin rad, even if they can't hope to be half as rad as the millennials on down <3
very very widebeam (friendly) subtoot, generational pol, cw: family-issues adjacent
Our issue is less the boomers themselves, and more that we do not yet have a framework for how to deal with an overwhelming number of voters who are to varying degrees entering senility and totally detached from the way the world is running.
It isn't a moral failing it's a structural one. we have voters who haven't had a full time job since computers were a novelty. Folks who remember putting themself through college and don't know it's bordering on impossible. I mean hell, grandpa voted in the last election, and died about 2 months later. He raised 6 kids on a teacher's salary, and never really caught on to the fact that you could barely raise one on the current salary. So naturally his votes made no damn sense in recent years.
I don't really have any solution to this issue, but it's big, and it scares me. If it were bad people I know what to do about that, but this is average people with shockingly out of date information using an average degree of reasoning to make bad decisions.
re: very very widebeam (friendly) subtoot, generational pol, cw: family-issues adjacent
@zebratron2084
it is a problem that has been butting up against my job and my personal life a lot this last year, so I have had a lot of time to think about it.