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Why do people still think this is simply a boomer problem? After the recent election even the US is waking up to the fact that Gen Z (and younger) generations are much more conservative than Millennials.
This is not a generational issue, the problem is not age. The problem is conservatism.
It’s not a boomer problem. It’s an education problem. Weaponized stupidity is a big problem in a pluralistic society.
The problem is that people switched to get their news from social media, and our adversaries are using that towards their advantage.
I don't think the artist is saying only Boomers have this problem. It is possible to express one's opinion on one issue without needing to address all similar issues.
Also it would be rather weird to have a Boomer and a Zoomer together in this situation.
I've been saying here for ages that the perception of boomers being overwhelmingly right wing and younger generations being overwhelmingly left wing is far, far from accurate. You can look at the demographic data from the prior two elections and see that, yes, there were more conservative boomers than liberal, but it's not a big margin, and for younger generations it was flipped. Now it appears the younger folks are more conservative than liberal.
As a very liberal boomer, it's been frustrating to get so many truly hateful responses, even recently, based on nothing other than the year I was born. I kept feeling like that level of intolerance didn't bode well, and now I'm thinking that concern was validated.
It’s to be expected. My theory is that millennials grew up late enough that they had access to the early Internet, so they got exposed to all kinds of strange cultures and had to learn tolerance and acceptance.
The younger generations grew up with an internet dominated by mega corporations, and algorithmic feeds. Unfortunately hostile states and other bad actors have been very effective at exploiting these mechanisms, causing a strong right wing shift simply due to exposure.
Your brain is strongly colored by what it consumes, of course.
That's a good theory. It's long been held that the more population dense area of the country skew liberal because diverse people jammed together learn to understand and get along with each other. You could make an argument that growing up on an internet with unfettered voices expressing themselves would be similar.
But the underlying racism that seems to fuel modern conservatism seems to be growing in all areas. I'm in California, which is about as blue as it gets, but like 40 percent of people voted for Trump.
Ok boomer
I really hope this phrase dies.
There's a place for it imo, as a response to cliché boomer opinions
lol this is exactly what that higher level comment was talking about.
Ok boomer
Stop saying "the" like there's only one problem.
The problem is liberalism, something the boomers inflicted on us.
You know that Jesus fella that conservatives seem to love so much? Archetypal liberal. 2000 years ago. Boomers are old but they're not that old.