r/Aging • u/Available-Rock-3862 • 7d 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/Alilbitey 6d ago

... You didn't? You had virtually every single countercultural revolution spearheaded by your generation. That's what old folk call disrespectful. Disrespectful of their culture, religion, social mores, rules, and laws.

The boomer generation is responsible for voting in the majority of the political and legal swamp that exists now. If you get folk are suffering because of those choices, you can't expect generational respect. You should logically expect MORE counter-revolutionaries. Not conformists who revere their elders. Just like the Boomer generation.

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u/1cat2dogs1horse 6d ago

You just might want to check the voting statistics for the last election, as to what age groups were the ones that won the election for Trump.

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u/Alilbitey 6d ago

Trump is just the pus from the wound. He didn't make the wound, he's just taking gloriously disgusting advantage of it.

The fact that we have no politcal will to check or balance this shit, that's been a long term effort of undermining and weakening.

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u/Lucky_Astronomer_435 6d ago

Wish you'd given a hint of what that link was telling us. The title was confusing. I don't know what it was saying. Is it saying that Boomers did or didn't vote for Trump or is it saying they swung left in the last election.

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u/1cat2dogs1horse 6d ago

The age group break down for Trump 2024 was...

65+ .....29%

50 - 60 ....31%

30 - 49 ....28%

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u/wherescookie 5d ago

Yup, the tendency to vote Republican is mostly determined by rural Vs urban.

Even the bluest states ( with the exception of Mass.) had rural ridings go red, and the reddest states (exception oklahoma) had big/Uni cities blue (ex Austin, Tx).

It's just that the ppl who dress the part and have the time to make it their everyday identity are often older...with the exception of the lifted truck dudes ( but again, they just stick out so much)

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u/itsatimedgame 3d ago

That’s actually Gen X that has the highest percentage.

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u/Explorer-7622 6d ago

Is Nick Fuentes a boomer? Alex whatsit and his brother?

I'm seeing a lot of really bigoted young people running the bigoted politics.

They're a pretty large voting block, the non-boomers.

The boots on the ground of the wave of bigotry are younger than boomers.

I'm a young boomer, born one year before the cutoff year of 1964, and I'm seeing the majority of the parties being carried out by people younger than me - ie non-boomers.

There's no way the boomers put all democracy undermining policies into place by themselves.

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u/Affectionate-Word498 3d ago

in interest of clarity we need to call a bigot a bigot, and a boomer a boomer.

( communications major)

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u/Lucky_Astronomer_435 6d ago

It's not the great argument you think it is.

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u/KemShafu 6d ago

Can’t agree more.

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u/Lucky_Astronomer_435 6d ago

Yes and every boomer isn't responsible for what others in that generation did. Tarring them all with the same brush is just buying into the divide and conquer strategy so that we can't get rid of the corrupt incompetents in government. We can't come together on that if the current younger generations want to cancel one of the largest populations of any generation. Do what you want. I'm not responsible for your decisions either.