I said more or less the same things- ** we**are why trump is in the WH. We love to glorify ourselves as a generation but truth is, genx is lazy. Too lazy to learn, and/or too lazy to vote responsibly.
Speaking of our reputation as lazy, I should rewatch Slacker
I have a feeling I'll think all the "ironic" documentation of conspiracy theories is a lot less amusing in the wake of QAnon, Proud Boys, Ukraine, the Mueller Report, and Musk/Trump
You were born when you were born. If older people were born when you were born, they would think more like you, and if younger people were born when you were born, they would think more like you. Every generation tends to do the best they can with what they’re given.
It also has to do with the climate in which people are raised. I am GenX was raised in the state of the Kennedys to a working class family of immigrants. We always voted blue because the Republicans aren't for the little guy.
As a Gen-X person myself, I can say for a fact this isn't true. So many Gen-X fell for Reagan and Reaganomics, voted GOP their entire lives, and WAY too many of them (more than in any other generation) supported Trump and became MAGA.
Far too many of my high school alums. Particularly, those that never left Central FL thought a completely unqualified, morally bereft, intellectually stunted, malignant narcissist "outsider" would be the best choice to lead America. Pretty well ended my Facebook use & reunion interest altogether.
Exactly the same thing here, only my interest in a reunion died back when Obama was elected and suddenly a majority of my High School peers on Facebook were making stupid racist rants. Of course it only got worse, and I blocked MOST of my high school class between then and now.
If only you showed up to vote more! Since you’re so smart and numerous,Trump would be in jail now.
But you didn’t, and he isn’t. Or, maybe Gen X isn’t a unified voting bloc.
What was white Gen X right about? That you would eventually become as bitter as your parents & grandparents & end up voting GOP just like them? That you would be mad that whiteness wouldn’t be enough for you to be mediocre so you decided to blame everyone but yourselves for failing in life?
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White gen-x voted for Trump, TWICE
I am a white, gen-x HRC/Biden/Harris voter, AND I'm not blind to my generation's failings
We are the opposite of omniscient
I would loathe us if I were younger.
I have a feeling I'll think all the "ironic" documentation of conspiracy theories is a lot less amusing in the wake of QAnon, Proud Boys, Ukraine, the Mueller Report, and Musk/Trump
And RFKJR
It's depressing and disappointing, but it's true.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/why-gen-x-went-maga/
But you didn’t, and he isn’t. Or, maybe Gen X isn’t a unified voting bloc.
It's not our fault nobody listened to us.
I've asked for help repeatedly and evicted on Monday and losing EVERYTHING because of so many lies.
Acceptance = Death
And I'm not ready to accept that quite yet.
But it's not even 3pm.
Night hasn't even been born yet.
I am late Gen X and voted and also smart enough to see what would happened if Orange got elected.