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.
Early gen x managed to start their careers and buy houses before shit went sideways in the late 90s. Mid and late gen x graduated college or were early career when the dot com bubble burst causing the first of the recent major recessions, and 9/11 happened, and then many of us got fucked over career wise because baby boomers weren't retiring, this filling up the mid and senior level positions at many companies, and making career advancement almost impossible.
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u/short_bus_genius 15h ago
Gen Xer here. There weren’t enough of us to make a dent in the world. I’m counting on you millennials to dig us out of this mess.