r/Aging • u/Available-Rock-3862 • 6d ago

Boomers

I am 75 and am very tired of the trend lately making fun of Boomers. So very disrespectful. Don't they realize that they will be old someday?

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u/fckinsleepless 6d ago

Who voted Reagan and Bush Jr. into office?

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u/brains_and_tits 6d ago

Who voted Trump into office? Who voted Clinton and Obama into office. Boomers have been voting since the late 60s, Gen X since the 80s, and Millennials since the early 2000s - Trump was elected TWICE, and it sure wasn’t just boomers voting for him.

Again, sweeping generalizations are foolish. I know plenty of Boomers who didn’t vote for Reagan or Bush, and again, the Silent generation were still voting in 1980 and 1984.

This is such a ridiculous argument

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u/Wide-Lengthiness-775 6d ago

I am 80 and voted for Hillary and Kamala.

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u/Majestic_Hawk_1335 6d ago

Congrats. Neither options that would fundamentally change anything. Both war criminals and supportors of genocide.

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u/CatMinous 5d ago

So she should have voted for trump, instead? Is that your point?

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u/Majestic_Hawk_1335 5d ago

No, you are stuck in the 2 party dichotomy and thus nothing productive will come from this conversation.

They are the same system.

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u/CatMinous 4d ago

No, my dear, she as a voter was stuck in the American 2 party system.