Same though I'm 32.

My 20 year old self would probably be a Trump supporter.

The hippies were only a small subset of the Boomers. Most of them were squares who would grow up to become deplorables.

Add me to the list of "more liberal now than when I was 20" (will be 39 next week)

Hopefully it will result in a full scale rejection of the GOP.

Reagan had the support of those in their 20s (and every other age group). Trump does not. At all.

This morning, he's trying the ALL CAPS strategy of trying to convince people to vote for an objectively horrible human being.


https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/...49296389251072

Love the intentional or not “bad on Crime” dog whistle. Jones was the prosecutor that finally got kkk members for bombing a black church and killing black children. Bad on the kinda crime you think is committed by decent people.

As awval pointed out, Carter won with the youngest demo. That group just voted for a Nazi unless it's all because of Trump crushing among people who didn't vote at 18 but do vote now.

At any rate the whole thing is horrendously vague and ignores any complexity with what is liberal, conservative, progressive, left, right etc.

The youngest people now hate Trump. The future would be fine if the damage done weren't already so bad.

I don't necessarily think this is true.

Yes, blame the people who didn't vote for him, makes sense.

Electoral college.

I dunno, it's easier than mono typing. Also, while I don't agree that all boomers are terrible people, you are clearly a terrible person and an even worse poster.

Maybe you guys could help dispel the stereotype by taking responsibility for how ****ed up the world became under your watch and try to do right by your children in the time you have left.

Yeah we need to see that guy's papers.

LOLLLLL blaming millennials for trump. spoken like a true boomer/boomer-lite aka Gen X. gfy moron, can't wait til your generation dies off

They really are just the absolute worst. Narcissistic, selfish, hypocritical, intolerant, greedy, shameless pieces of garbage.

maybe younger people would show up to vote (which they did) more if your party didn't write ridiculous, illegal voting laws that disproportionately target the young/poor/ethnic communities. or maybe they'd vote more if they heard some other message from the older generation other than "we're taking all your safety nets, your birth control, your education, your planet's health, and btw get a job you lazy bum."

oh yea, and it's our fault. just ****ing incredible.

Many of them. Certainly not all of them.

These people for example are mostly boomers

I'm 36 and have moved farther left pretty much every year of my adult life.

dammit

Seems to me like young people growing up today (millennials and whatever we name the generation under them) are generally far more empathetic and less selfish than generations before them. There are certainly pockets that like Trump and they seem to be pretty vocal but overall I have a lot of hope for the future - things like being anti-LGBT will become non-starters soon enough. Blaming them from Trump is nonsense, people like Rara and awval are too blame if anything.

Edit: why can’t I click embedded tweets in Tapatalk?

What I think does change as one gets older is responsiveness to social pressure or perceived social pressure. I no longer feel the need to censor myself to appease the dumbassery of those listening, so I permit myself to make outloud arguments that I used to keep to myself, or to openly question the premises of what I have always apparently taken for granted. This is sometimes perceived by idiots as being more conservative (skepticism and analysis of any kind tend to be badly received by idiots particularly when the conclusions, or even simply the questions, conflict with their presuppositions) even though my thinking has clearly (to me) evolved in the opposite direction.

Berlin wall fell under our watch if that was terrible for the world how so?

I've done right by my children and help set them up for life.

So what is their top priority then?

Protectionism is a left wing idea, free trade is right wing historically. Somehow, the Republican party has switched to almost being bad at everything including things that are historically right wing ideas and some of the deepest beliefs of the party.

This ****ing guy

This will be the party line defense if Mueller recommends an OoJ charge against Trump imo.

Then their rank and file can handwave away a class A felony while talking ad naseum about how important it is to go after people who commit misdemeanor visa violations.

Do you have any examples of good things the boomer generation has done that didn't involve "defeating" a foreign enemy?

No, they aren't. That was 1963. The oldest Boomers at the time were still teenagers, and as a generation they had very little to do with the civil rights movement.

The youth is significantly less white than current national demographics...