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As a fellow Xennial, I resonate with this so much.
I don't know about you but I always have felt isolated in everything, I know that's a gen x thing to say, but when you look at movies music for people our age, 48 leading the way There's not a lot of 47-52 year olds out there representing us.
Like when we can get together and unite i think we're successful but there are so few of us 77-82 it just doesn't happen anymore and we have been divided now.
Like we grew up with the reality of the aids epidemic but our schools were still successful and I think we were the last ones to have good public schools before Regan and his policies destroyed what was still working.
Like believe it or not despite her being being a complete racist piece of shit. A lot of my morals came from the Roseanne show. My parents were never home. My dad tried to push church on me but I always saw the church crowd as hypocrits and have never went back
We Gen-X saw both a broken world but had hope of change (a lot of it was misleading, but we didn't know then). You had that same hope, but saw problems on the horizon. Millennials were the first to see the hope was more propaganda and gaslighting than anything, and Gen Z... yeah, I feel bad for you guys, what a mess you grew into.
I.e., it was always messed up, they just were able to lie better back then. Now they're not even trying, they just shrug and laugh.
another gen-xer here. What haunts me a tad is that we are such a quiet generational cohort that we risk not even existing in future historical anlyses of the decline of the US. We may just get lumped in with the boomers. I do feel like we were much different than them, but we never got anything done, or led anything. There was always this feeling that we'd get our chance when the boomers faded out of the picture and they just never did. I suppose we had to fight for it and we didnt (enough), or something.
If you Google prominent gen-X politicians a list of republicans come up starting with vance. No dems on the list. Then ask again for prominent genX politicians on the left and you get cory booker, Gavin Newsom, and Beto Orourke. Its like my whole generation never existed.
I don't think we were ever designed to lead. We basically learned to survive on our own and grew to like being alone with no rules or schedule
I think the extremely young millennials and the old gen z helped create this right wing bullshit but it's partly because we failed in teaching them we were just to busy trying to survive
They were new meat, ignorant thanks to failing schools and parents, and the conservative echo chamber was right there to give them something to grab onto, just like the Boomers designed it to do.
I'm most upset at my fellow Gen-Xs. My first taste of Facebook long ago showed me how so many of them completely went stupid. I knew these people, and yet some of the shit I saw them post. So it's the Boomers' fault, but damn, we dropped the balls too.
I get it completely. I have always felt as if we're supposed to just shut up and take it, by our Boomer parents, our GenX elder siblings, etc. But as far as I'm concerned at this point in my life, they can all screw off. They have knowingly turned America into a shit hole and have the audacity to blame everyone else, including the younger generations. They were handed peace on a silver platter by their parents who fought and died in WWII. And they squandered it because of their macho ego.