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People lose their mind as they get older. But blaming them gets us nowhere.
Boomers also elected Clinton, Obama and Biden.
Yeah, I am more progressive than the average boomer.
But there are also alt-right millenials and Gen Z.
Age based politics is dumb and will never succeed. It really only appeals to a small minority of people.
I'm not going to throw my parents under the bus and neither are most people.
Business as usual neoliberals?
I’m not sure the voting demographics support that assertion. More like in a few elections boomers will got overturned. And the backlash is always severe.
Edit: Easy to google and find an infinite number of sources: https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2011/11/03/the-generation-gap-and-the-2012-election-3/
That's a weird way to show those statistics. Young people don't vote in general, unless they feel the need to. Young people are going to vote a certain way but that's who shows up to vote.
I think you deleted your comment. But I don’t think it’s weird at all. If what you say is true than it makes the impact of the choice gap between older and younger voters even more important. Clearly younger voters had to come out in massive force and extremely aligned to overcome the huge conservative bias of their older voting group peers in those elections.
I didn't delete my comment, can you not see it?
False alarm it was my app not making it easy to see the preceding comment. :)