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And what came of all that? The old adage that when the hippies got older, they became conservatives. What happened to all those people and how did that entire generation become sellouts?
You seem confident that the newer generations will be exactly like the Boomers but there are already sociological studies showing that the are breaking away from the paths the Boomers took, starting with the idea that getting older means being more conservative becoming apocryphal.
Also you're on some shit if you're pinning Trump getting elected on Gen Z and Millennials. Most Gen Z wasn't even of voting age. Most of the electorate were boomers and older Gen X. Also, we have demographic results from that election. It's definitely not the Millennials and Gen Z who were around and past retirement age in 2016.
Obviously a whole generation didn't become sellouts. As usual it's easier to target a group with bigotry when faced with problems out of our direct control. I find this ageism/generational-ism as tiresome as any other flavour of intolerance, and it's entirely unproductive.
Obviously. But look at the idiot I was replying to in the first place. This guy still thinks it was young white women who voted Trump in.
Is it bad generational statements you don't like, or is it bad generational statements made about a specific generation?
Yeah, it goes both ways, and young women voting trump in is just factually wrong as you say.