You are not alone, I'm more of a lefty than earlier in my life! But I meet quite a few boomers who don't engage at all and some, like me, are migrants but have become very anti-migrants and don't like refugees while never having me one! Guess what they watch?
I can't understand the oldies that are planted on lib voters. Someone needs to remind them the secret to staying young is learning about something new. Maybe someone could introduce them to bluesky, and get another view. I'm reasonably on the way to being old but fighting all the way.
So am I. I have about 20 fellow boomer friends and family upon whom I can depend to be socially progressive but then the field thins out considerably. Fortunately, I have found many other like-minded folk on here - some boomers, some not.
Me too, Cheryl, definitely more so now. Bc the freedoms we fought for as kids have been eroded. Sometimes I feel as tho all of the activism, protesting, marches that I took part in in those years were for nought. Women still being raped, the LGBTQ & Indigenous communities still marginalised...
I'm in my late 50s and and mortified by the number of men( And I use that term lightly) that are conservative in their mindset. Im Left of centre and happy. They are so angry about every fucking thing.
Oh I think that's unfair. Today's young people are fighting like hell just to have a roof over their head & get an education to be employable. Mouldy rentals. Huge HECS debts. Climate apocalypse looming
I know plenty of young families who drive nice cars, have custom-made furniture, wldn't think of buying clothes even for kids from Target, it's all brand name stuff, have frequent meals out, & have been o'seas with young kids. Sure they complain about house prices but they're not willing 2 sacrifice
Are they? Are they standing up on mass to demand better from government? Are they protesting inequity? Are they protesting employment conditions? Are they political? No!
Those things applied to me as a young person. I was still protesting injustice from 14. As were most of my friends. Years of anti Vietnam, anti apartheid, women’s rights, rights at work as women and also for all.
Nail on head, Roseanne. Entitled scabs who expect everything handed to them on a silver platter & keep telling us how lucky we were to be able to buy a house, forgetting the fact that at one point our interest rate rose to 18%, that we drove very ordinary cars, never went overseas, & lived frugally.
Mine too, except that we bought a fabulous locally-made dining room table when we first married in 1975. We figured we'd eventually have enough money to buy decent chairs to go with it but we never did. I bought my first new & complete lounge & dining room suites in 2001.
And there weren’t parents helping us financially. Other way round actually. Married in 72. Always leaned left, was an activist against Vietnam and apartheid at 14. Not ‘allowed’ to go to Uni. (Went in my mid 40’s). Unionist. Even further left.
I bought my first brand new car in 1998. I was 44. And I still drive it. And at the start everything was second hand. It wasn’t easy, but thing is I don’t expect more and we were still happy. Not feeling hard done by. Except the no kids thing.
Overseas holidays. lol. All five of us put in so Mum and Dad could go back home to see family in 1972. Assisted by my Aunt in Scotland who paid half the airfare.
I’m just tired of it. Not one of the future generations I know lived a childhood and youth like mine. They threw away opportunity after opportunity. Things we could only dream about. And houses? We bought our first in my late thirties, his early forties.Only because no kids.
Are you a Boomer, Cheryl? I didn't think you were that old!
I'd assumed you were at the vanguard of Gen X. (Maybe I'm searching for members of my own generation to identify with ... )
I don't think the labels help anyone. The likes of Murdoch like us to fight each other.
My son, mid thirties, was called a boomer by a 20ish person, more than once 🤷🏻♂️ WTF?
I do agree with you there.
First it was the climate wars. Then the cultural wars. Now it’s the generation wars.
It doesn’t help anyone other than those who seek to divide us.
Yeah, he was totally befuddled. He rents and doesn't even own an investment property🙃 !!
I wonder if it's become a term for a certain attitude or set of beliefs and moved beyond an age group. Many probably don't even understand how the term was originally applied.
I will look at the candidates and if we get a teal candidate that’s how I’ll vote. Labor isn’t the same as it was when I was younger, bit too far to the right for me now. Key things have been watered down😕 but I’ll vote that way if I don’t get a teal choice.
That’s the way I’m going Helen, I have an Indy but she’s a bit naff with her agenda, more like a moderate liberal.
The jury’s still out, Labor will be in the first three mix just depends where.
I will probably vote Green in Aston in the lower house, just to stick it to Labor.
And before any rusted-ons come at me, they don't give a fuck about my electorate, and after nigh on 50 yrs I'm going to try something else.
I'm the same as you Helen. I'm in Aston and the only 'indis' here a christian whackos.
Labor doesn't care about Aston, but I'm hoping that a viable option with the initals SL stands at the next election.
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Others are frozen in depression & anxiety or trapped in poverty
I'd assumed you were at the vanguard of Gen X. (Maybe I'm searching for members of my own generation to identify with ... )
My not well worded post was generated from this
My son, mid thirties, was called a boomer by a 20ish person, more than once 🤷🏻♂️ WTF?
First it was the climate wars. Then the cultural wars. Now it’s the generation wars.
It doesn’t help anyone other than those who seek to divide us.
I wonder if it's become a term for a certain attitude or set of beliefs and moved beyond an age group. Many probably don't even understand how the term was originally applied.
The jury’s still out, Labor will be in the first three mix just depends where.
They offer a chance to get Labor once again taking us on the progress road, not just micro-managing the status quo.
Or better, where you can, vote Socialist
- Socialist Alliance
- Vic Socialists.
Use your #1 preference to message to ALP.
And before any rusted-ons come at me, they don't give a fuck about my electorate, and after nigh on 50 yrs I'm going to try something else.
But most importantly vote progressive in the Senate.
1 - Vic Socialists
2 - Greens
Labor doesn't care about Aston, but I'm hoping that a viable option with the initals SL stands at the next election.
However, being a generation older, the mind and spirit are willing but the bones and muscles are weak.
These days, social media is about all I can do to help any cause.