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So far, not a god damn thing.

It's starting just now, like this year. Millenials had the numbers for at least 8 years, but not the turnout. Well, Cheeto man finally made them mad enough to get out there and vote and we're seeing quite a few upsets even within the Dem establishment party itself.

Better late than never.

One thing to remember is that, even now, we live in a gerontocracy. The wave of younger candidates winning in primaries is a sign of things to come, but more than the voting population shifting to younger people, we're still waiting for the candidates and politicians themselves to be younger on average. Still so many very old people in the US senate/house.

The momentum was never there because we were all busy following the boomer path of trying to go to college to make aoemthing of ourselves and ended up in college debt for life and then got shat on, by the very people who raised us to take that path in good faith hoping it would work out the same for us as it did them but it fucking didn't.

It's 50/50 here ya know. Like we all had the chance to not do what they said to do or go against the paths we were raised to follow and do our own thing. They also failed to see the absolute state of the changing world and only focused on what benefits them.

There is no war but the Class War.

That khumbaya idealist world is not happening. The other side actively weaponizes these conflicts successfully, if you keep pretending they don't exist you alienate everyone.

I agree that is class war but boomers are enabling the wealthy.

Boomers would rather punish millennials for our avocado toast than see billionaires taxed.

What you describe goes way back further than 100 years.

The hippies never disappeared, they were marginalized, ostracized, and excised by a fascist system. The War on Drugs was one of many tools the oppressive government used. Some hippies did in fact become yuppies but I don't blame them, the system was simply stronger than their ideals.

GenX aren't what I would call centrists. That implies they try to balance or can see the value in both sides of the political spectrum. They are not leftists by any means as multiple fascist purges of the left in US history has ensured they don't exist in any appreciable numbers. I could agree they are centrists between the right and the far right.

GenZ are not woke, they are malleable. They don't have strong ideals, values, or a Zeitgeist if you will. I think you confuse woke with just not caring and accepting reality as it is. This is not really conviction though, it is sinply resignation.

You are absolutely correct every generation is selfish. Also, the generation before will always complain about the later generation. This theme has existed throughout all recorded human history.

Most the people I meet are generally good and will make positive decisions given the time, resources, and opportunity. This is regardless of generation.

The problem clearly lies with a minority of wealthy individuals who have disproportionate level of power and representation. This is also nothing new. This same issue existed when the country was founded.

Nah its just that nice progressive people are also not ruthless murderous cunts, and thus bad at sezing power which then just ends up in the new generation of ruthless murderous cunts. Most people are pretty great which is sadly not a good trait for enacting change.

The God Damn boomers were the hippies from the 60s. What the fuck happened to peace and love?

LOL, Hippies were maybe 2% of American society in the 60's and a lot of those Hippies didn't fucking make it to adulthood between the drugs, wars & hard living.

The people who were hippies in the 60s are mostly still hippies today. Well, the ones who subscribed to the peace and love philosophy at least. Despite the media attention the hippies were never large enough to be a politically influential group in that generation. Most of the boomers grew up bullying the hippies.