The generational discourse (younger folks don’t like ‘boomers’) is useful as a series of observations about how things are harder now for young people. College costs too much - it didn’t for boomers. Houses are too expensive in major cities where work is located. Healthcare is ridiculous.
But most boomers are not really responsible for this - they’re passive observers like everyone else. It’s more an accretion of structural problems over time. Growth of government and concentrated business working together - at the expense of the middle class. Mass immigration and H1b visas for instance - this isn’t your grandparents screwing you over. ‘Boomers’ didn’t really do this - some very powerful people did who are still in control. Both parties contributed to it - so you can’t claim it was this or that voting block by age.
Generational discourse sometimes strikes me as a distraction from the real targets.
@OwenShroyer1776 But, Owen, you are doing exactly what you warned us about in your video clip; you are breaking the movement apart, leading us to your prior prediction. Self fulfilling prophecy…
This of course is bullshit. The vast majority of black women are either on welfare or working for the government. Virtually none of the pioneers, inventors, entrepreneurs, and business leaders who built this country were black women. And that still holds true today. They are in no sense of the term “the backbone” of our economy. A hugely disproportionate percentage of them can’t even support themselves, much less hold the entire nation on their shoulders.
But consider the fact that Democrats will speak this way about black women — spinning up a whole mythology with black women at the center of it — but Republicans would never in a million years say this, or anything like it, about white men. Even though, in the case of white men, it would actually be true.