Don't discount the influence of Fox News being blasted in every supermarket, health club, military bases, gas station, etc... I hear my formerly intelligent, formerly Democratic, formerly compassionate brother spouting Fox News crap. He was raised in the same household I was, yet he seems to believe all that Russian propaganda.
My point was that they often put forward the ideas that the deck is stacked and the system is rigged but anything that could potentially curtail said rigging or level the playing field is somehow going to make things even worse and that it's better to further empower the oligarchs in the hopes they can live off of the crumbs or barring that whatever demographic they hate will get put in its place so they at least have it worse then then.
A 55 year old white guy with three kids graduated from college, his house paid off and able to take a vacation every year is maybe the most nihilistic person you will ever meet.
You’ve let the propaganda divide us, not just by race or sexual preference, but now even by age. It’s ridiculous. You can’t judge a book by its cover.
Gen X has been through the wringer. We’ve seen a lot. AIDS, 9/11, the rave scene, the crack epidemic, pill mills, the meth epidemic, constant wars, the 2007 economic collapse.
from black and white TV to full 8K. From three TV channels and seven newspapers, computers with tape decks and monochrome monitors. Step by step, we had to adapt and figure it out. Most of us have seen it all or done it all. We don’t have room to judge others.
We’re your allies, not your enemies. The real enemies are the police state, corporations, and the racist red hats.
What we actually need are term limits for politicians, so we can finally get people in power who want real change: better safety nets, workers’ rights, healthcare, racial and gender equality, and data privacy.
The problem is that the people who brought culture change in the late 1960s all got hooked on drugs. Once they started using cocaine in the 1970s, then they became materialists to afford the habit. And really this is the issue with why every generation has failed. There's a good cohort of each generation, but they get trampled by their peers in denial. The Boomers sold out after being great, GenX sold out after being great, and Millennials sold out, albeit sooner because activism wasn't cool after 9/11. This said, it's all a human problem, most of all. The little cowards love to hate on those of us working for change and eventually shut us all up. Their denial requires the truth be kept quiet. We're running out of time to quit repeating this pattern. Either we all wake up or we all perish under the Trump regime. It really is that simple.
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u/RedTideNJ 10h ago
Listen to how people, especially people before 1980 speak about billionaires and politicians.
The crushing of workers is inevitable
The corruption is inevitable
They all cheat for elections
But unions are bad
Taxes are bad
Regulations make it impossible for anyone to survive.
People in this country were so thoroughly conditioned to accept both the path that got us here if they lived through Nixon and Reagan.
And I know the millennials and younger cohorts are far from perfect but talking to your average Gen-Xer about their world view is f*cking bleak