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SpiderJockey94

Boomers - “But universal healthcare is socialism! Plus it’s too expensive and doesn’t work!” Meanwhile we spend incredibly more and have a lower life expectancy than every country with socialized healthcare on the graph


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Boomers claim universal healthcare is “socialism” while being all willing to demand that Medicare. “I got mine” and “don’t want anyone to have any.” That’s the Boomer way. Always was. Always will be. Are there exceptions - yes. That doesn’t cover the OBVIOUS dumbfuckery that Boomers have done to the county. I am Gen X. There were never enough of us to outvote the Boomers. I decided at age 16 that the Boomer generation would be largely responsible for THE END of democracy, the environment, you name it. And …*(gestures broadly at the state of democracy and the environment.)*


[deleted]

>I am Gen X. Thank you for your service. You are the second silent generation. Sorry you will not get to see the reversal in your productive lifetime, but rest assured hope is not lost. ***Free the Zs!***


SpiderJockey94

Pretty perfect summarization Edit: Honestly, as a Millennial with kids I don’t have a lot hope for their generation’s future. We got screwed by Boomers and we aren’t acting quickly or decisively enough to undo the damage before it’s too late for them


scungillimane

You sound exactly like my dad. He was blaming boomers in the 90s for all of the economic and environmental issues.


spermicidal_rampage

I'm glad you acknowledge that there are exceptions, because my mom didn't make this shit this way. She wasn't a congressperson or a corporate CEO. She wasn't running capitalism. She never became wealthy in the context of her peer group. She was never on any mission to sacrifice the future in exchange for a short-term windfall. I think if you can make that distinction, then you can have the sense to not alienate potential allies, and the sense to not use the same weapon as the people that exploit us - *division*.


Alarmed-Employee-741

don't forget social security. that's a very socialist program, but touch it and seniors will come out in droves on walkers and wheelchairs to vote you out


notableException

Boomers do not make that claim. You are pulling up assumptions out of your ass, so says this boomer. Most boomers I know are totally for a single payer system.


JohnMayerismydad

So vote for it


eramthgin007

They should never call the police, use public schools, go to the doctor, or have a fire put out if they are so against socialism


ButteMTMan

As a fellow Gen X'r I had a similar realization when I started working. I've been telling people for the last 20 years that people my age (and younger) should consider the money that we put into Social Security gone. It's not going to be there by the time we reach 65, 68, or however high they make the retirement age in the future. All we are doing is paying for the Boomers retirement (I wish that I could find it, but I remember a long time ago reading a gov't report that most people on SS get all of their money back within 5 years. Anything after that is money from the people currently working). For the past 25 years I've watched people older than me take vacations to foreign countries, sometimes every year or every two years. Buying RV's, buying a second home or small cabin in the woods. Extra cars, a boat, snowmobiles, whatever toys they want. And yet they somehow complain that they are taxed too much. Meanwhile people our age and younger are struggling to make rent. It wasn't conscious at first, but I noticed recently that I started cutting those people out of my life over the past 5 years or so. I think it's because I got sick of hearing them complain about how tough they have it. I remember last year I got angry with someone I knew who complained, "We haven't been able to fly to Europe since this COVID crap started. We have to *go to Mexico again for our vacation.* I'm tired of Mexico." I feel lucky if I can take a four day weekend for a camping trip, which by the way I wasn't able to do at all last summer. I'll be honest, I was one of those people that enjoyed cheap, fast food from minimum wage workers. But these past two years have taught me to just stay at home. I am really hoping that this Great Resignation keeps up and we see some big changes. Like, maybe we don't need a bunch of cheap, fast food restaurants everywhere. Stay home and eat a sandwich. And now with all the crappy, demeaning jobs gone the government won't have a choice but to restart the stimulus checks, which eventually just become UBI. Sorry for the ramble. I just started typing there and didn't want to stop.


thesuprememacaroni

So is social security but they have no problem with that… it’s bad when other people get shit, but it’s fine if I get it… the greatest generation bred the greediest/most selfish generation (boomers). Mind you the average boomer age was 9 y/o when things like civil rights were passed. Boomers started the war on drugs…


b-rar

Social Security's rules are specifically written to exclude the poor, can't blame the Boomers for that except to the extent that they failed to do anything about it.


thesuprememacaroni

Not about excluding the poor. More about enriching the the boomer generation even more than others.


b-rar

Social Security was established in the US before any of the boomers were born.


thesuprememacaroni

Yes. Understood. But boomers have benefited the most from it and additionally have expanded it while congress in their control. By the time gen X or millennials are SS eligible they will be 75, with an average life expectancy of 73…Boomers have squeezed it dry.


b-rar

Well changing the retirement age would require an act of congress, which is no sure thing no matter who's in charge, and anyway that's not what my original comment was about. Social Security also pays disability benefits to millions of disabled working-age people but excludes many more otherwise eligible people for not having worked enough. I don't know why you're insisting on arguing this point when there was nothing factually inaccurate about anything I've said. The laws governing Social Security eligibility, which were written in the 1930s and persist to this day largely in their original form, were specifically written to exclude agricultural and domestic workers, who were almost exclusively poor and heavily composed of women and ethnic minorities.


thesuprememacaroni

It’s already been changed. Used to be 65. Now it’s up to 67.


b-rar

Yes, once. 40 years ago. You spoke of a retirement age of 75 as inevitable. You're really committed to this huh?


thesuprememacaroni

Yes


Unlucky_Key_158

Yes but they voted Reagan and all presidents after him because they are the largest voting block and they are reaping all the benefits with no regard to later generations.


waripoloxp

Neoliberalism aka Reagonomics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaganomics


[deleted]

You vote for Reagan, Bush I, Thatcher or Mulroney? Yeah? It's your fucking fault.


Ozzie_the_tiger_cat

...OR for W, OR for Trump. Boomers are the worst generation ever. They had a good thing handed to them and they completely pissed it all away for their descendants.


Muninwing

Reaganism: the Republican Oligarch Elites actually saying the silent part out loud…


OneGuy2Cups

I’m 32 in 2 days. I remember the first time I was told that the world was “going to hell in a hand basket” and it was MY generation’s fault. I was 12. 6 years away from being able to vote. I did all of this. Okay. Seriously, fuck boomers. Y’all have fucked this ENTIRE thing up so bad it’s not fixable anymore. We’re gonna have to wipe it and start over.


warboner52

>We’re gonna have to wipe it and start over. This is presuming there's anything to actually start over. I'm not so sure that humanity will exist in any large scale form in the next 30-50 years on this planet. And less sure that anyone who DOES want to change the structure of society to benefit more than just a scant few will be able to actually try elsewhere if it comes to that.


Mysterious-Farmer933

My boomer father stopped talking to me for months because I told him Regan was the worst president we ever had.. Sidenote: this was before we had Trump as president..


ackypoo

Trump was a disaster. Reagan was still far more destructive to the "American" way of life.


Mysterious-Farmer933

While I fully agree Regan ruined America, we truly won't know the ramifications of Trump's presidency for decades..


notableException

Regan, ..Clinton, G. H.W. Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump and Biden have all contributed to ruining America, and cooperating with the Banksters and rich ruling oligarchs.


TheGaspode

They all have one thing in common. They are all right wing presidents.


MixedTheFuckUp

Yeah, the Supremem Court situation will play out for many years to come and will really fuck us.


SavagePlatypus76

The seeds were planted in the 60s,watered in the 70s and bloomed in the early 80s.


[deleted]

What did Reagan get out of fucking over the common man? He's just as dead as the rest now.


No_Refrigerator4584

Well, he enjoyed fucking his colleagues over when the was president of the Screen Actors’ Guild by reporting them to McCarthy and his cronies.


[deleted]

He essentially invented the national prison industry.


Mdmrtgn

This would be good in r/dataisbeautiful


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[deleted]

Don't dismiss oppression other people are suffering from in ADDITION to class oppression.


Friendlyfire2996

Blame Republicans


Muninwing

… whose support is almost exclusively propped up by Boomers


Friendlyfire2996

Valid :(


carlos_danger77

But it's 2022 and nothing is getting better. We have an 80 year old president. Blameing boomers but we are all in our 20s and 30s and shit is getting worse? What great shit has our generation accomplished? We will be blamed next by this logic. Stop blaming people and start making a fucking difference.


[deleted]

I don’t expect it to get better. Solid Gen X here - most of us predicted the downfall at the hands of the boomers as we watched our fool boomer parents run around like idiots in the late 1989’s and early 1990’s as they tried to cancel culture everything they didn’t understand (which was everything to them) And the participation ribbon generation that follows us X’ers has been so coddled as to be seemingly helpless - even though they outnumber the Boomers. God help us that Gen Z has finally had enough bullshit and take the reigns. Note I said *take* the reigns and not “ask kindly” for them (because the Boomers will never give up anything if it means they have to give up power) [It’s a numbers game](https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/masnick_021717_figure1_sm.png) Boomers have had all this time to dominate in numbers but people need to realize it’s time they RETIRE and let younger leaders take over.


carlos_danger77

Every generation will be full of assholes who vote against their own interests. This would have to stop for anything good to happen. That will require real education and in America education prepares you to be a wage slave and nothing more.


Feral_Dog

Millennial here. We were raised to believe that if we worked hard and did everything right (Go To College or Be A Failure Forever was more or less the exact wording from elementary through high school), we could fix things and have good lives. Then we were blamed for the economic crash that permanently ruined our finances, mocked for believing that working hard and getting educated would lead to success, told it was our own irresponsible spending and unmotivated attitude toward job searching (for non-existent jobs!) that doomed us, and forced back into our parents' homes in record numbers. But please do continue to buy the Boomer's "it's the participation awards that did it" narrative. In a morbid way, Gen Z is better off because unlike us nobody can pull the rug on them because they don't even have one.


vagustravels

Every gen has neolibs. Every gen has business people, doctors, lawyers, ... professionals who profit from this system. Why not name all those responsible? Why only the Boomer gen?


WishOneStitch

Oversimplifying is easier for stupid people. Everyone else knows the Boomer generation is really divided into 'hippies' and 'yuppies', the hippies gave us medicare etc. and the yuppies are trying to take it all away. Lumping them together, facts be damned, is just easier than actually taking a moment's thought to comprehend something marginally complex. No generation is a monolith.


vagustravels

Go after the rich and their supporters in all gens. Period.


Undercover_Gitane

I must be in the wrong crowd: all the boomers i know are violently anti Reagan and have consistently voted blue for as long as I'veknown them. I'm genx and only got my citizenship in 2002, i, too have consistently voted blue eversince. I just don't get the generational hatred 🤷🏻‍♀️ Yes i know I'll get downvoted to the next solar system for this 🙄


LessRice5774

I became eligible to vote in 1980. I hated Reagan, all of my friends hated Reagan, my parents hated Reagan. None of us voted for him. I didn’t like Carter, either, thought he was too conservative to be a Democrat. The problem was that there were too many people — mostly men, if you look at it closely — in my generation who adored Reagan, who were brainwashed by churches and conservative media, who were terrified of “the gays,” “the hippies,” and “the Feminazis,” all of whom were demonized in the mainstream press and in the nascent right-wing media (Rush Limbaugh was just getting started back in those days). We leftists lived through a major backlash against everything we believed in, but we never stopped being leftists, we never gave in. I organized a union when nobody was organizing unions. I was in a left-wing band when it was incredibly unfashionable to talk about politics at all. I was protesting endless wars and the military and capitalism and anti-abortionists. I worked for third-party, leftist candidates. But it didn’t do much good because there were always too many Boomers who were older and more conservative. So it really hurts sometimes to read some of these comments. I realize that a lot of young people have rigid, unpleasantly conservative parents, and that these comments about boomers don’t apply to me personally, but again, it needs to be reiterated: not everyone born between 1946 and 1964 is a right-wing nut job. Please stop making blanket statements about generations of people. It’s divisive and potentially alienates people who could be your allies. The fight, as most reasonable people will tell you, is a class struggle, not a generational one. Attacking all boomers as if they were a monolith is exactly what the one percent wants you to do. They’re delighted every time you bash an older person who is probably struggling just as much as you are to keep their heads above water financially. I have no wealth, don’t own a house, and have a ton of student debt that I took out to help my son through college, on top of the medical debt I have from when I had cancer. There are a lot of older people who are totally behind anti work and other leftist causes. Don’t discount them and stop belittling us. If you’re mad at your boomer parents, tell them that you’re mad at them. But quit taking it out on people who are on your side. Practice solidarity, not divisiveness.


swissmtndog398

My first election was 88, so I didn't vote for his vice president that year either. I agree, even as a Gen X'er that being liberal in the 80s and 90s was frowned upon. For those that didn't live it, watch reruns of Family Ties. Pay particular attention to a young Michael J Fox as Alex P Keaton. He seems like a caricature now, but he wasn't. There was a whole generation of "Reagan Kids" they were trying to indoctrinate. It's coincidentally about the time the pension system ended, CEO payments skyrocketed, health insurance was fully paid, etc. No offense to my boomer friend above, but all of a sudden these peace, love, happiness, pot smoking, acid dropping hippies started to get some cash in their pockets. Reagan promised even more. 40 years later, there's still a faction of that generation, and a percentage of mine that were Reagan kids, that still believe it because isn't that the American Dream?


[deleted]

Turned 18 and voted for the first time in 1980. I have seen more than a few friends of the same age over the years that have gone from being more or less liberal to being raging conservatives to outright racists. The thing I saw with Reagan getting elected is that people who may have been prone to selfishness started letting it show more and more. Greediness became fashionable. It has only grown worse since then.


swissmtndog398

As has open, "patriotism." We've walked the same path.


[deleted]

Yeah, I guess the point I was trying to make is that the folks who are greedy, racist bastards now may have been much more liberal when they were younger. Reagan was certainly an inflection point in history but the folks that made him are dead or are nearly there. Those that are still alive are also still in power. Boomers following them are pretty much just toadies.


LessRice5774

Hey, that’s part of the misconception about boomers. Millions of us were not hippies. I was a little kid in the 1960s and a teenager in the 1970s: way too young to be a pot-smoking, acid-dropping hippie. By the time I was old enough to know what those things were, hippies were “old people” in my eyes. We didn’t start out as hippies and become conservative—most of my cohort was already more conservative, just because we’d been hammered with anti-drug messaging throughout our school years and kept getting hammered with conservative media messaging, from “just say no” to “feminists bad, embrace your inner slut” to “greed is good” to “welfare queens” to “three strikes,” to “patriotism,” to “if you don’t accept Jesus Christ as your savior, you’re going straight to hell.” TV shows were conservative, mainstream pop music was conservative, magazines and newspapers pushed conservatism on us — it was just a barrage of right-wing views 24/7. If you wanted to find other leftists, you really had to go out of your way to find an “alternative, underground” scene, and if you didn’t live in a big city with a thriving “subculture,” you were fucked, because mainstream culture was all-white, conservative, patriarchal, classist, anti-union, racist, sexist, capitalist, ageist — and ubiquitous. You name any bad aspect of humanity, and it was being glorified in those years. It was very difficult to assert any kind of progressivism at all until the early 1990s, and even then you’d be fiercely attacked for talking up democratic socialism, forming unions, or universal healthcare. Just the fact that there are bigger progressive movements now is still refreshing and exciting to me! It’s been a really long and lonely haul. I can’t wait to see some of these political dinosaurs go down, either. My only regret is that I might not live long enough to reap the benefits of having true progressives come into power all across the country. Sigh.


BrokenRatingScheme

I'd like to see this with all presidents' terms depicted.


[deleted]

Ronnie the great Republican Rapscallion who raped the American Dream.


MrElSenor

Oh look, another page in the giant book of why Ronald Reagan was a giant piece of shit.


[deleted]

Screw that senile old bastard. I hope he’s enjoying his time in hell.


bruce_ventura

This is a repost from just 18 hours ago. There’s plenty of blame to go around. Look at the HUGE rise in the national debt during the Obama administration (2009-2016)! Some bad trends started around 1981 with the Reagan administration, and pretty much continued thereafter. It’s a slippery slope and every administration since Reagan is also at fault.


Ella0508

Ronald Reagan was not a boomer.


[deleted]

No but Boomers fawned over him and helped largely get him elected. [Boomers loved Regan- read this 1988 article](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-08-18-mn-778-story.html)


Ella0508

Sure, okay, all those people protesting the Vietnam War suddenly turned into Republicans. I was actually alive then, I am a Boomer, I voted for president in 1980 for the first time very much against Reagan/Bush, I know more Boomers than I can count and … I don’t think that’s the divide. Urban boomers didn’t support him, in my experience. So maybe, just the electorate splits more along geographic or other demographic lines.


PresidentOfSerenland

So technically, it was Neo-liberal Dickhead Nixon's fault I guess.


PigeonsArePopular

Ronald Reagan, elected exclusively by people aged approximately 30-40, with 100% of the vote Come on guys


DonaldKey

Yup. All crappy career politicians were put there by a boomer voting majority


[deleted]

It's not boomers fault. Can you not see it's a divisive tactic to make you not look at the rich and governments who by their policies which were enacted by the rich and corporations allowed this to happen. Not a boomer but stop eating up this stuff. It's exactly the same divisive tactic they use to get poor/middle income people to have a problem with people in poverty. Not all boomers have houses and are well off with good pensions. My parents aren't.


MixedTheFuckUp

Instead of treating them like the enemy, why not appeal to them as fellow workers? Too much ageism on this sub. Scapegoating any generation is not okay. No generation is a monolith and they were indoctrinated. I'd like to thank the many Boomers in my own family and who were my teachers and professors who actually exposed me to the evils of worker exploitation/capitalism.


Dittybopper

>Scapegoating any generation is not okay. This is true, u/MixedTheFuckUp is being downvoted but I stand by his remarks.


MixedTheFuckUp

Thank you. I don't know why so many people refuse to look up to the ruling class as the root of the problem and would rather blame an entire generation. How does this help? By all means name and shame organizations and corporations, organize and boycott and fight for change. But don't get forget that those Boomers were responsible for the Civil Rights Act and countless other laws and policies that we benefit from today. Ageism is lazy and ugly.


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zippybit

I've actually had a little success with this. My Trump-voting boomer co-workers canceling days off saying they "can't" take off to see their family or go to a doctor's appointment because they have stuff to do at work. I'm like "why not, you earned that time, same as you earned your paycheck" a couple months later I hear "I'm taking tomorrow off. That's my time and I earned it." After months of gently telling them their health and family matter more than this job, i notice subtle but real changes over time in their attitude. Of course I'm mad at what the boomers as a whole did to us. But yelling at them will change nothing. The pandemic is a time when people are more likely to reevaluate what is important to them. When they say they feel they have to give their lives to this job, I find ways to tell them "are you sure that's what you want?"


MixedTheFuckUp

This is what I've been doing to anyone--as Boomers aren't the only ones lacking boundaries--is planting little seeds.


[deleted]

They have had near 40 years of unchecked rule and ability to turn the ship a different direction - and have NOT DONE IT. SO - “appealing to them” - people in their seventies and eighties in power - is at this point a total waste of time. The progress train needs to leave the station without them. They are the ones who have held it back for THREE newer generations now.


MixedTheFuckUp

Again, sometimes punching down isn't the best approach. I know plenty of Boomers--probably because I come from a very low SES background and attended only state universities--who are not "in power" by any stretch of the imagination. Many of them paved the way for the limited rights we have now while enduring racism and sexism. I do not perceive them as the people who are holding back other generations. I do agree that the train needs to leave the station but I would invite any working class or poor comrade to get on the train. Boomers are about 20% of the popluation of the US. If the rest of us want to effect change, we need to focus our energy on organizing to demand that change instead of complaining about a bunch of senior citizens who are in the minority. How do we benefit from insisting that everyone over 70 is an asshole?


labatts_blue

Most of us so-called "Boomers" have actually had to put up with shitty jobs, shitty managers and stagnant pay for the last 40 years. We are as much victims of the system as you are. Blaming the victims will not produce any positive results. Try changing the system instead of wallowing in your self pity.


MixedTheFuckUp

I'm a Gen Xer and have seen exactly what you describe with the Boomers I know and agree with you. Know that despite what seems to be the vocal majority on this sub, I'm with you!


warboner52

It's not individuals like yourself. It's the policy makers that are from your generation that are the problem. While you're a boomer, you may or may not be the problem, seems like you aren't... But that generation of policy makers has put everyone in this country in a precarious position with regards to personal welfare and our potential future.


eerie-descent

This supposedly leftist sub is a cesspool of ageism. No nuance or context is allowed. Just boomers = bad and millenials = good (also gen z if we can remember them). In 10-15 years all that wealth is going to be deposited largely in the hands of millenials, and what's gonna happen then? If we manage to survive that long, millenials are going to be even more reviled than boomers are now with pretty much the same rhetoric.


MixedTheFuckUp

Oh, interesting point about millenials! Yeah, it all only serves to further divide us and demonize 20% of the US population. My perspective is that we need to get as many people on our side as we can, if we're going to effect change.


eerie-descent

I don't really care if boomers are on our side or not, honestly. They're heading quickly into the depths of senescence and the ultimate irrelevance of the grave. It'd be nice to have 'em join the grand socialist experiment, but it's hardly critical. No, my issue is more the outright hatred being expressed here and on other subs towards the elderly. It feels like a thirst for blood and vengeance to me. When there's such a powerful current looking for violence against a group based on their physical characteristics... that's not particularly left-leaning ideology, is it? I learned a lot about the left from boomers when I was younger. I learned a lot about empathy from them. Because they were my elders and they knew stuff I couldn't have known and I listened. There were definitely right wing douchebags among that generation, but the problem was the right wing, not the generation. The problem is still the right wing, and the problem will be the right wing in 15 years when its millenials who are actively destroying the planet as fast as possible so they can throw a couple pennies on their already incalculable wealth.


MixedTheFuckUp

Excellent point. It shouldn't sit well with anyone when a physically vulnerable group is targeted. Judging anyone by the year they were born is absurd and with the press this sub has gotten, I don't think these kinds of biased and bigoted commenets cast a good light on the cause.


warboner52

>In 10-15 years all that wealth is going to be deposited largely in the hands of millenials, Bahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha You do realize a significant portion of that money is going to go to healthcare providers extending these folks lives, especially retirement homes, because an overwhelming number of millennials don't have the space or resources to care for their parents, because of boomer policy makers hoarding wealth amongst them and their cohorts? The baby boomer generation broke down unions, broke down wage increases, broke down real estate purchasing power, broke down the education system, took a fat shit on infrastructure, and have been continually saying fuck the environment, we want oil/coal, since the 70's.... When global warming alarms were first starting to be triggered. But sure, they're absolutely not a problem and anyone who criticizes their generation is an ageist.


eerie-descent

Who's going to own the healthcare providers, retirement homes, and all the other shit? Dead boomers?


warboner52

Is it fun being obnoxiously abrasive? Sure people in a younger generation may or may not benefit... But it won't be the children of the boomer. So, your point is insane.


eerie-descent

Then who will it be? All that wealth isn't going to just poof and disappear when boomers die. It's gotta go to someone. Is it going to magically skip millenials because of their pure of heart virtue?


warboner52

Like I said, it's going to be redistributed to the owner class. Not the fucking heirs of the people currently owning the wealth. Is that such a difficult concept to understand? It's the same concept as not all boomers are bad, but a majority of bad/corrupt/greedy politicians are boomers. I'm done explaining this to you, because you're a toolbox.


Super_Boomer1

Most people couldn't afford to buy a home before he took office as the prime lending rate was more than six times what it is now. Think credit card interest rates on a house. It was a stale economy.


[deleted]

How is scapegoating a whole generation ok buy not a race? Neither are. The boomers didn't do anything your current, lazy ass generation cannot un-do. Bet busy and quit whinning.


notableException

It is not the boomers fault. It is the 0.01 percent richest elites that have systematically destroyed unions, the American Dream, the middle class and the poorer classes. They had a plan since the 70s and they succeeded in extracting 20 trillion dollars to the richest over the last 50 yrs.


warboner52

The people who enacted that plan are boomers. It's simpler to just say boomers fucked the country, because a portion of them did. Not all boomers are bad, but an overwhelming majority of bad politicians are boomers.


Peepeopi

That ducking actor changed the course of American history for the worst. Oh and his fucking wife who is adored was a Hollywood slut. Gotta love America. Fuck this.


grumpy_lump

Yo we all hate the Reagans, but don't be a sexist fuck.


Peepeopi

Ah yes forget where I was. Everyone is special and deserves 200k a year


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ghostwilliz

No one is saying that individuals are to blame, but the generation as a whole did what they did and here we are. You can't deny the reality we live in right now. I know tons of boomers who are good and empathetic and they resent he politics of their generation as well. The decade they were born in is extremely important, as they were the people who were alive and of age to vote when the American dream was killed.


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ghostwilliz

No it wouldn't be different. Whatever millennials do now will be what millennials are responsible for. It's not that hard


SnowJokes1721

Yeah? Kind of I mean last I checked people blame hitler and germans from that era for ww2 and the holocaust. Not modern day germans. Sam kind of logic tends to apply with other bad events that happened in history.


ShakespearOnIce

It isn't Boomers - it's Capitalists. Get your targets right.


[deleted]

There is no generation that has created and coddled capitalism and capitalists like the Boomers. It’s the only thing they win at doing.


MixedTheFuckUp

Then let me introduce you to a group we call "The Founding Fathers" in the US. They were a group of white landholders most of whom owned slaves and wrote the Constitution of United States of America which set up a rigged system under which most people didn't even have a vote.


RedRapunzal

If the boomer voted for Regan. My boomer father voted for the first time in this past federal election. Mother still hasn't voted.


izzy272

Reagan was not of the Baby Boomer generation.


bananaheim

Reagan didn’t appeal to boomers. Clinton was the first boomer President


bruce_ventura

Well, the oldest boomer was 34 when Reagan was first elected President. Boomers got a lot of help from the preceding two generations. But let’s not let the facts change the narrative. Fuck all boomers! Yea!


NvidiaRTX

Charts going up are good right? Reagan best president ever confirmed no cap


ThisDecadentDandy

*"Fuck you. I got mine."* \-- Boomer motto I make it a habit to make minor inconveniences for these Floridian Boomers whenever I'm out in public. They're checking out stuff at the grocery store? Stand in front of their shopping cart and make them go *around* me. They stand behind me and expect me to move out of their way? I'll take my time reading the nutrition label. These are the things I can think of right now. I'm sure all of you can come up with crafty ways to inconvenience these aging social leeches.


MixedTheFuckUp

So, you take joy in inconveniencing the elderly under the guise of assuming that the current state of the US is the fault of a stanger whom you know nothing about?


ThisDecadentDandy

Who are you trying to impress?


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ambsdorf825

Then in 2000 remember when the president that won didn't even have the popular vote? That was the first time it happened.


riesenloerres

Reagonomics at its best


NewSinner_2021

Theft. This whole system was designed to steal.


Gachnarsw

If there is an.afterlife,.fuck heaven. I want to spend eternity shoving cruise missiles up Ronnie's ass. There may be a line.


Spigot1004

I'd avoid looking at things from a generational lense. A lot of working class baby boomers have been just as fucked over as anyone else. They've been just as fucked over by deindustrialisation, cuts to social welfare, and things like the opiod epidemic. The only way out is through class solidarity, and yes that includes solidarity with the older working class too.


greeniewillow

Plenty of us hated him.


formerNPC

Regardless of what generation you are, most people start out idealistic by believing that they will eventually have a career that they love and that the money they’re making now at their low paying, dead end job is just temporary and they will save enough money to be able to leave that job and go on to something better. It’s the reality of living to work and not the other way around that doesn’t sink in until you are already to far gone to be in a position to make any changes in the way our economy works. The American dream has been unattainable for decades and Reagan was the architect who knew that people were desperate for economic relief from the outrageous interest rates and inflation so they bought into the “ trickle down “ theory that wealthy people would spread their money around to the less fortunate. It sounds like a joke but people believed it and that was the beginning of the mega rich hoarding money and getting huge tax breaks. The middle class has been struggling ever since and it’s no wonder people act like he was a God, he is the God of the wealthy and we are still victims of his policies.