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If you think these people who are disenfranchised with Biden are going to magically vote for Trump, you've got a big surprise coming on election day. They may not be too happy with Biden but it's not for the reasons you think. Also, with the specter of Trump 2.0 looming over the nation, it'll be enthusiastically Biden. You Trump supporters simply fail to understand the amount of contempt and disgust people feel for your candidate. The abortion issue alone is going to sink your ship.
Well you also have to consider the leftist push on abortion and not having children. No coincidence that since that push really began the Generations are getting more conservative. Conservatives are more likely to marry and have kids. Which means kids are raised to be more conservative. The left knows this which is why they strive to keep control of education it's the way to try to indoctrinate kids into their beliefs.
If Conservatives want to win all they need to do is get off their butts and run in local school board elections and become teachers. I know multiple people who have run or talked about running for office but all of them always focus on higher government positions. The left understands that you control local politics and you have greater influence on local populations. :And that control leads to greater state and National power.
I remember those times. People didn’t vote “for” Carter nor did they vote “against” Ford. They voted against Nixon and Ford lost because of his connection to Nixon and issuing a presidential pardon to Nixon. Carter was a good man but a bad president with good intentions. Biden isn’t a good man nor does he do things with good intentions, as for “Just Say No”, I didn’t need that message. I watched my addicted uncles float from job to job, going in and out of jail, and some still living with their parents well into adulthood and realized I didn’t want to be like them. Some looked at such behavior as fun. I saw it as sad and pathetic.
I had an older brother that graduated in '74, he wore the John Lennon glasses and followed the hippie philosophy. He wasn't a doper, but he was always mooching off people, pissed at rich people, and sometimes lived in his car. That hippie stuff never got him anywhere, he was buried with his guitar. I was a saver and stayed out of bars, lived in a dumpy apartment 6 years for 240 a month, and bought a small house off a pizza job for 20k in 1994, fixed it up, doubled the size with room addition during the GW Bush years, which were good to me up until 2008. That's when I went from gain to maintain. The house did all the gain from then on, still working part time and looking forward to social security.
I will have to admit I depend on obamacare for my health insurance, and wish the republicans would drop their zeal to get rid of it. Fortunately I'm healthy and can afford to take a chance they won't kill it, Trump will be my pick in '24, border security and keeping the LGBQ stuff out of the schools seems more important to me, but I am pushing 60 and really like healthcare not being tied to my job. Gives me enough time off to ride my bicycle in the summer and take lots of pleasant walks on our wonderful parks and trails, here in the city of Des Moines.
The media was a lot more tame back in the cold war days, not always trying to stir up division and hatred. To put it simple, they became a bunch of troublemakers and the pandemic was the great unmasking.
The main problem in modern society is the top 10-15% have a disproportionate amount of total wealth, due to lack of checks and balances preventing it. Basically we allow highly liquid entities to buy up everything. Small business have all gotten gobbled up by large ones, and now assets like land and real estate are ending up the same way. Pretty soon all the farmland and a good chunk of the real estate will be owned by a few mega corporations. Hopefully we actually allow things to fail at some point because these corporations could end up owning humanity. What happens when the system dubs them "too big to fail?" This is crony capitalism, the system we are currently subject too.
Well, you know we can’t do anything about it…that would be socialism!
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It's the system many of us want to see crash and burn, in exchange for a system that keeps wealth better distributed, and allows failure to promote responsible behavior...
Of course the Boomers support Biden better than anyone. Boomers have been ruining this country ever since the 60’s. They are the problem.
Gen X people are much more level headed.
You have to figure there were a lot of Hippy/Druggy Bernie Sanders types in that group. Not all Boomers were straight laced business types. This was the Generation of Timothy Leary and Acid and Cocaine
The only reason Gen X is the greatest generation is because it has me in it.
Anyway, I thought the Greatest Generation was our grandparents who fought World War II? When did that change? Other than producing me (a dubious accomplishment no matter how you look at it) our generation hasn't done ****.
If you think these people who are disenfranchised with Biden are going to magically vote for Trump, you've got a big surprise coming on election day. They may not be too happy with Biden but it's not for the reasons you think. Also, with the specter of Trump 2.0 looming over the nation, it'll be enthusiastically Biden. You Trump supporters simply fail to understand the amount of contempt and disgust people feel for your candidate. The abortion issue alone is going to sink your ship.
Yes. They'll vote for Biden even if they don't approve of him, and that vote is simply a vote against Trump, as it was in 2020.
I’m a gen Xer and yes we are very conservative compared to the Gen Z. We never had left wing causes and our youth was not spent trying to change the world. We just went to work and have been doing that ever since. We are now approaching retirement and the young people are trying to wreck the country on us and spoil everything we have worked for. We disapprove of their values and work ethic, we don’t support their radical causes and their behavior is probably making us dig our heels in and become more conservative. We saw socialists as the enemies behind the iron curtain. We came of age under Regan and Bush. Our experience growing up during the Cold War taught us things kids today just don’t know and don’t want to know. We KNOW socialism and communism does not work. We remember American before it was so divided. We remember a better country.
I'm in Gen X and have a lot of Gen X friends/acquaintances who are liberal/Democrat. I think it's a matter of who you know.
I didn't pay much attention to politics as a kid. The biggest thing probably impacting me was the Farm Crisis, and I don't know all the details on that (looks like the grain embargo with Carter played a big part), but no one in the government in the 80s was doing us any favors. We scraped by due to my Dad's extreme caution. We could have just as easily ended up a statistic, losing everything, like many other family farmers here. It was a rough time. I didn't really have any clue about the Cold War and what all of that meant. I was focused on the pressing issues in my own life. I don't think politics were discussed much in my house (or at least not in front of me) - probably because my parents were not of the same party. My mom told me years later that my dad was always giving her a hard time and trying to get her to vote Republican.
When I finally started to become interested in politics, it was because of issues that are focal points for Democrats: the environment, women's reproductive rights, health care. I always considered environmental protection to be an important concern, from the time I became aware of it (probably the 'give a hoot, don't pollute' days). I started voting when I was of age, but I didn't get inspired until Obama, and then again when Bernie first ran. So I have actually become more liberal/progressive as I've gotten older. That's not to say that I support every issue, because I don't. But I consider new ideas. I've been to other countries and recognize that the way we've been doing things here is not the only way to live. I also have Gen Z (and dual citizenship) kids who are very opinionated on some of these issues. I think the more you are personally exposed to things, the more you consider them.
i'm early gen-x and political affiliation of my fellow gen-xers seems to vary by geography, like other age groups do.
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