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Shane Gericke's avatar

Plus, Boomers are such an enormous bulk. So many more millions of us than any other generation in our history. Our sheer numbers mean we affect everything, good or bad, and other generations get tired of the reality that Attention Must Be Paid.

I do wish Gen X had gotten politically active. Boomer politicians have stuck around far too long, and having the fresh blood of your energetic cohort would have been great.

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Hilbert's avatar

To understand Gen X you have to understand our upbringing.

We didn't see any difference between the parties / politicians. What was really the difference between Regan / Bush / Clinton.

The fact that we had a stable government and general consensus on our broad policies (i.e. funding the government, world policies, etc.) made us very lackadaisical. We assumed it made no difference because it would always be stable.

The Greatest Generation had the Depression and WW2, Boomers had the chaos of the 60's followed by the cold war, Millennials had the great recession, gen z has had non stop turbulence

Gen X had the luxury of peace and prosperity during our formative years.

IMO that's why a lot of us didn't take politics seriously until Trump. Now we realize that it's more fragile than we thought

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