I know there’s a lot of Gen X bashing on here these days, but I’m gonna tell you that I’ve only gotten more radical in my old(er) age, and right now I’m getting more radical by the minute.
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I have found as I've gone through my life being pretty liberal to begin with that reality has only reinforced my progressive and liberal views and proven to me it is the right way even if it is the left. I am more liberal now than when I was 18 and I was a radical when I was 18.
Much of the avarice and greed of my generation the baby boomer generation as complete and total disappointment especially after the rise of the environmental anti-nuke movement and civil rights women's rights movements. It starts in the '80s with Reagan and the me generation.
Me too. My Gen X friends haven't changed. It's the younger generations that have fucked us. My millennial sister voted for this shit. She has drunk the cool aid.
Some of us GenX watched and vividly remember Watergate. We were and have been at this our whole lives and are only growing more radical with the role back of democracy 😡🤯🤬 In spite of being consistently criticized for being ‘too political’ 🙄🙄🙄
I'm Gen X and I've joked for years I am so far left I have to look right to see Bernie Sanders. I am saddened more folks are being driven into this category due to recent far-right fuckery.
Preach. We’re latchkey kids with “whatever” attitudes. We can live on hose water and pop tarts. We’ve been ignored and abused by our parents and our own children. We are expected to do elder care and then babysit our kids til their 35 and still living at home with a Masters degree we paid for.
Same. As an X in my teens I had no thoughts or opinions about politics one way or another. In my 20s I was a democrat of a somewhat centrist leaning. In my 30s I got radicalized and moved more and more toward democratic socialism. In my 40s I’ve reached the point where I’m ready to burn it all down.
We are in the minority though. Gen X was the only generation that voted for Trump and in particular it was white people who put him in. It's very fitting nobody of our generation will become president. We don't deserve it.
I'm Gen X and proud of it. I've been fighting the good fight my whole life. I'm a psychotherapist working for 30 years, w/ all mental health populations. I've been most recently working with sex workers & working for a clean environment since I was 7 in the Give a Hoot Don't Pollute campaign!
It's unreal. We grew up with Reagan - which gave us a sense of humor. Hip hop was born out of the cruelty of that administration. Gen X should have known and done better.
Boomer here. I’ve been fighting since Roe V Wade in 1973. Then fought for Women’s Rights like if you get pregnant you don’t get fired or demoted. Now I’m fighting for my Adult kids & Grandkids. Don’t count out Liberal Boomers. We got you a lot of rights we didn’t have. Now here we are fighting 47.
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If you can catch me between PS5 sessions and comparing Dante to Ty West.
Yeah, me and lots of GenX got it. They just didn't want to listen.
I do notice from my schools, those who did the worst or didn’t care and hated learning are the ones who support the orange felon/fraud/rapist now.
Boomers, Gen X, Millennials get bashed all the time.