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No generation is a monolith. I and lots of us were and are opposed to the rightward shift, although I'm not opposed to people having right/conservative viewpoin

by a3n 10y ago

No generation is a monolith. I and lots of us were and are opposed to the rightward shift, although I'm not opposed to people having right/conservative viewpoints and acting on them. People have a right to speak, and to vote for their direction. Sometimes people win, sometimes people lose. Sometimes things go really badly, but we can't all be President or members of Congress. You speak to your friends, you do what you can within your life, you support justice and oppose actual evil (not sloganed evil). You respect respectful people of all politics. You play with your kids and hope for the best.

fweespeech 10y ago
> No generation is a monolith. You need to realize it isn't personal against you. If a majority of a group vote in favor of X, they bear some responsibility for it. Particularly when they don't rebuke it after the fact. > People have a right to speak, and to vote for their direction. Sometimes people win, sometimes people lose. Sometimes things go really badly, but we can't all be President or members of Congress. Obama and HRC were (economic policy wise) 60s Republicans. Modern Republicans are basically Reagan-derivatives. https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/11/05/baby-boomers-are-whats-wrong-with-americas-economy/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/11/05/... > One moment in the third Republican presidential debate encapsulates everything terrible about baby boomers and the way they’ve pillaged the U.S. economy. It came from Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, a Generation Xer, who offered the standard line — you can hear it from the mouth of almost any American politician today — on how to keep Medicare and Social Security solvent. Rubio defended the idea that future workers will need to retire later or receive fewer benefits from those safety-net programs than current retirees. “Everyone up here tonight that’s talking about reforms,” he stipulated, was “talking about reforms for future generations. Nothing has to change for current beneficiaries.” I don't feel the need to be polite about it when elected politicians are comfortable stating their plan to "reform" the system is to screw me and people my age in favor of another group of people.

by a3n 10y ago

fweespeech 10y ago

> No generation is a monolith. You need to realize it isn't personal against you. If a majority of a group vote in favor of X, they bear some responsibility for it. Particularly when they don't rebuke it after the fact. > People have a right to speak, and to vote for their direction. Sometimes people win, sometimes people lose. Sometimes things go really badly, but we can't all be President or members of Congress. Obama and HRC were (economic policy wise) 60s Republicans. Modern Republicans are basically Reagan-derivatives. https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/11/05/baby-boomers-are-whats-wrong-with-americas-economy/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/11/05/... > One moment in the third Republican presidential debate encapsulates everything terrible about baby boomers and the way they’ve pillaged the U.S. economy. It came from Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, a Generation Xer, who offered the standard line — you can hear it from the mouth of almost any American politician today — on how to keep Medicare and Social Security solvent. Rubio defended the idea that future workers will need to retire later or receive fewer benefits from those safety-net programs than current retirees. “Everyone up here tonight that’s talking about reforms,” he stipulated, was “talking about reforms for future generations. Nothing has to change for current beneficiaries.” I don't feel the need to be polite about it when elected politicians are comfortable stating their plan to "reform" the system is to screw me and people my age in favor of another group of people.