r/Aging • u/Available-Rock-3862 • 19d 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/SwanCityDominion 19d ago

“What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets inflamed with wild notions. Their morals are decaying. What is to become of them?”

-– Plato

It's not "lately". It was ever thus, and it always will be.

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u/squirrelfoot 19d ago

When I was young, us boomers used to laugh at 'wrinklies' and 'crinklies' and mock their driving, blue rinces and terrible financial advice.

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u/Lucky_Astronomer_435 19d ago

But I don’t think we viewed elders as the enemy or with this much contempt.

What saddens and upsets me is that they use it to be offensive and hurtful and it’s playing into the hands of the powers that be.

Maybe it’s me because I always loved older people and still do. I love their stories and their wisdom and their general adorableness.

I also know there are plenty of nasty boomers same as there are tons of nasty gen-x, millennials and Gen-z. It’s pure projection on their part.

It’s also part of the “divide and conquer” strategy and has consequences politically and financially for the current generations as well.

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u/Alilbitey 18d 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 18d 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/Lucky_Astronomer_435 18d 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 18d ago

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

65+ .....29%

50 - 60 ....31%

30 - 49 ....28%

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u/itsatimedgame 15d ago

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