Plus, it’s not like the climate will just snap back into place when the boomers are finally too old for their skeleton talons to cling to power. That shit is going to take generations of sacrifice to roll back, if it doesn’t topple civilization first.
The whole ethos of the majority of baby boomers seems to have been to raze the forest they got to enjoy behind them (as opposed to planting trees whose shade they’d never sit in like most generations aspire to), and they seem to be having remarkable success in that.
Not the original commenter posing the lack of change when boomers die off, but to continue the direction they’re going.
The reason the younger generations were moving toward a more progressive ideology is now fully under attack:
open internet,
freedom of communication globally,
ability to both unite in protest but to unite empathetically with peoples all across the globe and in different societal conditions (global communication melting pot reminiscent of Blue cities that sOoOoOo frightens conservatives),
the earlier push in standardized and progressive education (and tangentially the separation of church and state and teaching of factual history and science)
the attack on women’s rights (when it comes abortion/medical rights)*
and finally the attack on voter rights and the war of misinformation.*
The conservatives have figured everything out. They’re directly destroying* all of that to further keep the lower classes (non-elite) from growing out of their control. I fear we’re not going to get as many AOCs over the next few decades but more MTGs, Boebart, that weirdo from Florida, etc in our younger politically charged generation.
Edit: more visually appealing bulletting of items, two additional bullets, and a typo
The wealthy are savvy but with the boomers gone they lose a lot of their support. Of course they will try to maintain the status quo, but the people will be affected by the material conditions and see the truth. The only thing we have to fear is hate, but MTG, Boebart and Desantis were all elected by Boomers. Young people don’t vote for those idiots. I’m more concerned about Andrew Tate.
This isn’t new though, many boomers were the hippies at one point, they had the photocopier, fairness doctrine TV & Radio and liberal attitudes for sex, gender, and civil rights.
But the same tactics were used to stop and convert many of them, plus around half of them were the same sort of assholes that give them a bad name now.
We’ll just have to see, won’t we?
Plus, it’s not like the climate will just snap back into place when the boomers are finally too old for their skeleton talons to cling to power. That shit is going to take generations of sacrifice to roll back, if it doesn’t topple civilization first.
https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/warmest-arctic-summer-on-record-is-evidence-of-accelerating-climate-change
The whole ethos of the majority of baby boomers seems to have been to raze the forest they got to enjoy behind them (as opposed to planting trees whose shade they’d never sit in like most generations aspire to), and they seem to be having remarkable success in that.
Not the original commenter posing the lack of change when boomers die off, but to continue the direction they’re going.
The reason the younger generations were moving toward a more progressive ideology is now fully under attack:
open internet,
freedom of communication globally,
ability to both unite in protest but to unite empathetically with peoples all across the globe and in different societal conditions (global communication melting pot reminiscent of Blue cities that sOoOoOo frightens conservatives),
the earlier push in standardized and progressive education (and tangentially the separation of church and state and teaching of factual history and science)
the attack on women’s rights (when it comes abortion/medical rights)*
and finally the attack on voter rights and the war of misinformation.*
The conservatives have figured everything out. They’re directly destroying* all of that to further keep the lower classes (non-elite) from growing out of their control. I fear we’re not going to get as many AOCs over the next few decades but more MTGs, Boebart, that weirdo from Florida, etc in our younger politically charged generation.
Edit: more visually appealing bulletting of items, two additional bullets, and a typo
The wealthy are savvy but with the boomers gone they lose a lot of their support. Of course they will try to maintain the status quo, but the people will be affected by the material conditions and see the truth. The only thing we have to fear is hate, but MTG, Boebart and Desantis were all elected by Boomers. Young people don’t vote for those idiots. I’m more concerned about Andrew Tate.
The weirdo from FL I was referring to was that guy who sex trafficked underage women; ‘Matthew Gaetz’, might have been his name, maybe?
But, yes. The conservative trending podcast guys are ridiculous, too.
This isn’t new though, many boomers were the hippies at one point, they had the photocopier, fairness doctrine TV & Radio and liberal attitudes for sex, gender, and civil rights.
But the same tactics were used to stop and convert many of them, plus around half of them were the same sort of assholes that give them a bad name now.
thats the ethos you project onto boomers, not the ethos boomers live by.
The results speak for themselves. The majority of their generation’s attitudes about the results indicate satisfaction with the results.
Not true. You dont know what they think or feel
Ok boomer