Baby boomers Ruined America: Why Blaming Millennials is Misguided — and Annoying

[jeff47]

48. The generational lines and political lines don't quite match.

Older boomers tend to be liberals. They voted against Reagan.

Younger boomers and older GenX tend to be conservative. They voted for Reagan. It's this group that forms the core of the modern conservative movement, including Reagan.

Younger GenX tend to be liberal. They couldn't vote until Reagan was out of office.
Millennials haven't been voting for long enough yet to establish a good trend.

As a result, you're going to run into a lot of Boomers that say "I got mine, screw everyone else". You're also going to run into a lot of boomers who are the exact opposite. The first will tend to be younger, the latter will tend to be older.

You'll see that same "I got mine" from older GenX, and the opposite from younger GenX. Unfortunately, younger GenX and older boomers didn't form a counter-coalition to boost liberal ideas, so we have our current conservative and "DLC"-dominated national politics.

It appears that older millennials are forming a liberal coalition with younger GenX, due to how shitty conservative policies have been to the young. That is starting to have an effect in local elections, and will take a while to percolate up to national politics....assuming it continues. Young GenX "tuned out" when we couldn't get anyone to pay attention to our issues - it's not like college was cheap and minimum wage was high in the 1990s. We'll see if those two groups can sustain a coalition long enough to get it into power.