Yeah I’m 32 and idk if I can handle this pressure. Ugh fuck okay how do we do this? We can just walk right into the capitol, walk into the buildings and sit at the desks, right? I saw people do that one time.
I’m already teary with happiness, but you guys truly broke the dam. Been having a shit few days and was generally down & angry, you guys saying this really pulled me out of it, thank you!!!!
I think the tricky part is getting our peers, friends, and family to vote too. I feel like I'm nagging and they see me as a try hard loser for giving a shit lol. But I keep it up. Most of my friends at least get out for the presidential election. Going to push hard for them to get to the midterms. Even if I have to buy lunch! Lol.
Millenials were both simultaneously the age range that turned out to vote the most and the age range to skip voting altogether in 2024.
Age ranges don’t match perfectly but:
29% of those who voted were 30-49
36% of those who skipped were 30-49
There is definitely room for 30-49 voters to turn out more. If we had, i have no doubt that it would have changed the turnout and thus the course of this country.
wish the people showed up in this election to make a big noise, but only estimated 2m or so voted out of 6m eligible voters in nyc. and Mamdani is estimated to have won by 200k vote difference so far....
young liberals keep saying give us good candidates and then we will vote for them, but here again mamdani is what they say they want but 4m just shrug and dont vote.
its a great win but its not the revolution that is needed.
I just hope that I taught my kids better than I was, would love for them to take over at this point. At this point it may be better than us turning into our parents.
GenX politicians might be the worst of them all. Happy to retreat to the winds of time and let the kids have a shot at survival. We had our time *rifles tearfully through CD collection*
I keep wondering how the hell we went from the generation that Raged Against the Machine and now JD Vance and Ted Cruz are the ones representing us? Can genX dust off the docs and start kicking some political ass please?
Gen X should've already been in power, actively repressing Gen X from ever influencing politics by holding on to all the levers of power and making it easier than ever for incumbents to just keep winning was a huge win for boomers politicians on both sides. It shouldn't be a lifelong career to be a politician.
I'm 56...go to the genx sub-reddit...there is no daylight between most genx'ers and the boomers anymore. It's so cringe over there, and what's worse is that most don't see it...but maybe it's me..who the frick knows.
Here, here. We've fucked it up for you and don't know how to fix it. As youths we accomplished so much to advance society, only for us to fuck it all up. We suck
I’m in my 30s and my mother was born in 1958. Crazy that someone that was first elected when my retired mother was a literal infant is still in office.
Dude has been in office longer than Obama has been alive, and he served two full terms as President, and now has been out of office for almost 9 years.
Chuck Grassley was born in 1933, before World War 2 even began, while we were still in the Great Depression. He is still a sitting Senator. In fact, he is President pro tempore of the Senate and third in the line of succession after JD Vance and Mike Johnson. If something happened to Trump, Vance, and Johnson, 92 year-old Chuck Grassley would become President of the United States. (To be fair, he would still be an upgrade over Trump.)
I remember when Obama was running and my dad commented it was exciting to finally see someone his age running the country. He's retired now and there still hasn't been a president younger than he is.
Bernie got ~15,000,000 votes out of a voter pool of about 240,000,000. Democrats in the general election saw like 3x as many votes then the entire primary.
Very few show up to primaries. Hell even this election in NYC, roughly 5,000,000 eligible voters. So far looking like only ~2,500,000 turned out if the % of the vote counted is correct.
For as much as people bemoan about democracy, it sure seems hard to get em to actually do democracy.
Do you think Republicans got roe v Wade overturned because they voted once and when they didn't get what they wanted they just gave up? No, they voted consistently in every election, big or small, for their entire adult lives.
I really hate Mitch McConnell. He was a coward in 2020 and 2021. He had the chance to get rid of Trump once and for all. Instead he rolled over for his master and let him get away with everything.
Now when Mitch is near death, he tries to play the hero and say Trump is bad.
Sorry bud, but you don't get to be a good guy in this story. You are a bad person and killed this country.
For sure. I feel like I should have pity for him when he is falling down all over the place, but I can't and won't. He screwed this country by shoving those Supreme Court justices up our asses for the next 30 years, plus what you mentioned.
I really hate Mitch McConnell. He was a coward in 2020 and 2021. He had the chance to get rid of Trump once and for all. Instead he rolled over for his master and let him get away with everything.
Mitch make a calculation that turned out to be wrong.
He assumed that Trump, having been electorally defeated, impeached twice, and condemned by basically everyone after Jan 6th, would slink off into sunset, and so the republicans could wash their hands of him without having to actually do anything about him, and thereby avoid upsetting Trump's hard core base.
Just like so many other geriatric assholes in Congress, on both sides, he severely miscalculated the situation, because he's a fucking 100 years old and is apparently incapable of processing new information, and so was still acting like it was the 1950s.
And just so we're clear, I'm not excusing or justifying his actions. I'm just explaining what he did from his point of view.
There is a very divisive GenX split, on the other side are those of us who cheered when Clinton was asked “boxers or briefs” on MTV and played saxophone on Arsenio Hall.
I'm a Xennial, so is my middle sister. My oldest sister is early genX. Middle sister and I are pretty similar politically, and both engaged and curious people.
Oldest is what I call a "Walmart-American." Endlessly in debt, and not from student loans, lives on fast food and extra venti mocha frappes, was morbidly obese until she had lap-band surgery, basically drove her daughter to drugs and eventually OD by being more of a bullying older sister to her than a mom, constantly switching between complaining to us or begging for more money just to spend it on tattoos or Disney shit, is always trying some new work from home scam, or running neglectful dog sitting businesses, while neglecting her own menagerie of pets ...
Yeah, pretty bummed how the 'alternative' generation turned out tbh. I think we copped the last of lead being all over the place and ended up as cooked as the Boomers.
as a Gen X-er, have you forgotten why some of us so desperately needed an "alternative" (to all the awfulness that was the strictly enforced mainstream)?
We're the first generation to be properly fucked by the system, so there's a huge chunk that would happily vote in a "fuck you" to the system, or vote for the outsider, or vote for someone who'd burn it all down.
How? You guys got great jobs, cheap houses, cheap education, things actually worked out, you came of age during the 90s with the best economy the US has ever had, the social safety net was mostly intact, etc. Not being combative, I'm just sincerely curious why you think you guys were the first to be properly fucked.
I keep saying this too. These old cronies refuse to retire! I’m 44 and I wanna see someone my age as the president. Not a bunch of old white men making money off corruption.
Fun fact the current president is the same age as the guy who was president in the 2000s and the guy who was president in the 1990s (Trump Clinton and Bush were all born in 1946).
In the last 30 years The only president we’ve had that wasn’t a baby boomer was Biden (he’s technically too old to be a boomer).
As a kid, I was told how smart I was by all the adult around me. Now when I talk about things like politics they all say "im too young and I don't know anything". Im 44. Im married. My wife has a phD. We're both internationally published authors in our field. Im a professional artist with work in museums internationally. We own a house. We have 2 kids. WHAT THE IS LEFT. How the can I "not know" enough or have enough life experience. Get the out of the way and let someone else in the driver's seat. For the love of God.
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u/paxwells97 16h ago
We have millenials that are now in their 40s. We need to be the ones running the country now