Gen X grew up with the fear of nuclear annihilation by Russia so why would they now approve of a US President who sucks up to the very worst that Russia has offered up since Stalin?
Gen X grew up with better Republican presidents than Trump. Say what you want about the Reagan and Bush era, but I’d have them over Trump any day!
Make it make sense to me!
How can anyone support a lunatic dictator-wanna-be?
Yeah, the person who posted this ate the paint chips. This was nearly 10 years ago.
Wait, aren’t millennials supposed to be like THE liberal generation? Are you guys just getting older and becoming conservative? I would have expected at the highest 30-35%
Are men that much more likely to like authoritarianism than women are?
Do it by church going.
So I am Gen X and never voted Republican in my life. But like all of us have friends the same age who voted for Trump. Here are my observations.
1. Racism – it is obvious racism plays a big part in voting for Trump and a lot of Gen X were the people who were forced to integrate and sometimes it didn’t go well. They took this as the system being rigged against them. They also were most affected by affirmative action programs and somehow believe their lack of success was due to this.
2. Bad media diet – One thing I can say about Gen X is a lot of people have a real lack of media literacy. Look at people like Jason Jones or Joe Rogan. These are “key” news sources for a lot of them. Both are not journalists and both really love the conspiracy theories. We also have new media out with places like OANN and other post Fox propaganda wings, this even includes AM radio which is essentially a right-wing echo chamber.
3. General anger at society due to being screwed. Remember our entire lives we were either ignored or shit on, by society. Boomers basically wrote us off and told us sorry no place for you. We were the creators of many technologies and music that are popular today, but they got told F-off. At this point if you actively push a group out of society, is it any shock they want the world to burn?
4. Mid-life anger and depression. Everything you worked and sacrificed for is basically for nothing. I did 22 years in the army fought in two wars and still had to fight for 3 years to get the benefits I was ORDERED to get from the VA by the army because the boomers didn’t fund the VA since they thought the war was going to last 3 months and cost 86 billion dollars.Not 20 years and Trillions with millions of Vets entering the system. It was only under Biden we got the benefits and the first thing Trump did was work to take them away. Thanks Boomer! Couple that with multiple bad recessions where the boomers defended their own and we got screwed because we didn’t have the numbers. Now when we’re supposed to be really earning, we are told, you’re too old F-off.
So given these factors it is not hard to see why these would not be the people who want to support Boomers in their golden years or Millennials in their prime earning years. They know the game is rigged and they know they will never benefit from it so what’s the point of busting ass, let it burn is the new mantra.
GenX loves to talk about “good times make weak men”. Well, genX entered the workforce in the roaring economy of the late 80s and 90s… They could basically trip into a decent career and they still ended up burnouts who voted for a wannabe dictator. Weak men
These numbers are way too high. They should all be around the gen z women numbers. They seem to be the only ones with their heads on straight
Boys what are we doing?!
The GenX numbers are horrifying and inexplicable. I remember watching “Threads” and “The Day After” and being unable to sleep in middle school, thinking about Soviet nukes dropping. And now the same generation is A-OK with the corrupt remnants of the USSR running the US and reestablishing their old empire. WTAF.
The 56% percent of GenX is all the people complaining they don’t like Rage Against the Machine anymore because they went woke
45% of Gen Z is actually insane
It wasn’t paint chips. Most of the lead came from breathing the exhaust from cars burning leaded gasoline.
I’m Gen X. When I was a kid, I had an army of lead soldiers that I would play with until my fingers were grey and I got them when I was young enough that I’m sure I put them in my mouth, my father used to melt lead in the basement to make fishing sinkers and I liked the smell of molten lead. I’m sure that lead has affected my life but I can still see Trump is a POS.
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Gen X have always been nihilistic and wanted the world to burn.
Let’s hear it for gen Z females – here’s hoping more and more of them end up in positions of influence.
50% for boomers? That’s honestly lower than I thought.
Gen x are boomers who never lived in good times.
Millennials. That’s too high guys, what the fuck?
Cracker said it best…
https://youtu.be/bJ8m271kO2Q?feature=shared
How were these polls taken?
I’m Gen X, and that’s embarrassing.
Gen X grew up with the fear of nuclear annihilation by Russia so why would they now approve of a US President who sucks up to the very worst that Russia has offered up since Stalin?
Gen X grew up with better Republican presidents than Trump. Say what you want about the Reagan and Bush era, but I’d have them over Trump any day!
Make it make sense to me!
How can anyone support a lunatic dictator-wanna-be?
Yeah, the person who posted this ate the paint chips. This was nearly 10 years ago.
Wait, aren’t millennials supposed to be like THE liberal generation? Are you guys just getting older and becoming conservative? I would have expected at the highest 30-35%
Are men that much more likely to like authoritarianism than women are?
Do it by church going.
So I am Gen X and never voted Republican in my life. But like all of us have friends the same age who voted for Trump. Here are my observations.
1. Racism – it is obvious racism plays a big part in voting for Trump and a lot of Gen X were the people who were forced to integrate and sometimes it didn’t go well. They took this as the system being rigged against them. They also were most affected by affirmative action programs and somehow believe their lack of success was due to this.
2. Bad media diet – One thing I can say about Gen X is a lot of people have a real lack of media literacy. Look at people like Jason Jones or Joe Rogan. These are “key” news sources for a lot of them. Both are not journalists and both really love the conspiracy theories. We also have new media out with places like OANN and other post Fox propaganda wings, this even includes AM radio which is essentially a right-wing echo chamber.
3. General anger at society due to being screwed. Remember our entire lives we were either ignored or shit on, by society. Boomers basically wrote us off and told us sorry no place for you. We were the creators of many technologies and music that are popular today, but they got told F-off. At this point if you actively push a group out of society, is it any shock they want the world to burn?
4. Mid-life anger and depression. Everything you worked and sacrificed for is basically for nothing. I did 22 years in the army fought in two wars and still had to fight for 3 years to get the benefits I was ORDERED to get from the VA by the army because the boomers didn’t fund the VA since they thought the war was going to last 3 months and cost 86 billion dollars.Not 20 years and Trillions with millions of Vets entering the system. It was only under Biden we got the benefits and the first thing Trump did was work to take them away. Thanks Boomer! Couple that with multiple bad recessions where the boomers defended their own and we got screwed because we didn’t have the numbers. Now when we’re supposed to be really earning, we are told, you’re too old F-off.
So given these factors it is not hard to see why these would not be the people who want to support Boomers in their golden years or Millennials in their prime earning years. They know the game is rigged and they know they will never benefit from it so what’s the point of busting ass, let it burn is the new mantra.
GenX loves to talk about “good times make weak men”. Well, genX entered the workforce in the roaring economy of the late 80s and 90s… They could basically trip into a decent career and they still ended up burnouts who voted for a wannabe dictator. Weak men
These numbers are way too high. They should all be around the gen z women numbers. They seem to be the only ones with their heads on straight
Boys what are we doing?!
The GenX numbers are horrifying and inexplicable. I remember watching “Threads” and “The Day After” and being unable to sleep in middle school, thinking about Soviet nukes dropping. And now the same generation is A-OK with the corrupt remnants of the USSR running the US and reestablishing their old empire. WTAF.
The 56% percent of GenX is all the people complaining they don’t like Rage Against the Machine anymore because they went woke
45% of Gen Z is actually insane
It wasn’t paint chips. Most of the lead came from breathing the exhaust from cars burning leaded gasoline.
I’m Gen X. When I was a kid, I had an army of lead soldiers that I would play with until my fingers were grey and I got them when I was young enough that I’m sure I put them in my mouth, my father used to melt lead in the basement to make fishing sinkers and I liked the smell of molten lead. I’m sure that lead has affected my life but I can still see Trump is a POS.
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