cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31889143
this post was submitted on 29 Jun 2025
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The boomers are shit. Because they are old and the elderly are generally shit.
It's not that they were born shit or taught to be shit, it's that people with money, greedy, low empathy people, live longer on average.
So the empathetic people doing their thing die off over time and leave the conservative assholes alive and voting.
Also the boomers were exposed to leaded gasoline for the longest period of time.
Gen X wasn't shit but they are turning to shit because they are getting older and wealthier. Millennials will be the same. There used to be a theory that millennials would break the trend and stay leftists but it was just delayed and as they buy houses and build wealth they are shifting right.
Every generation turns to shit because they get old and the poor die off and the remainder vote to hoard their wealth and fuck the younger generation.
This will keep going until something changes at the level of great. Depression or WW2. A pandemic 20x as bad as COVID might do it. Actual nuclear war. Complete economic breakdown, something that destroys the wealth of everyone and resets the board. Maybe birthrate collapse will do it.
Short of that we will keep having the same fights every decade.
There used to be a theory that millennials would break the trend and stay leftists...
Isn't that what's happening? Millennial are still broke
Millennials are moving right, we are the largest voting gen and trump just won a trifecta.
Not as far right as boomers at the same age, but it happens to us too.
I heard it was Gen Z moving right because of PragerU that Millenials were still left
Gen z is left of millennials, at least in the US, but not as far left as millennials were at the same age.