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Old Money: Campaign Finance and Gerontocracy in the US
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- recursivedoubts 2y agoA big part of this is just boomers booming: they are a huge bulge in the population and thus are set to dominate democratic politics until enough of them die off, at which point millenials/zoomers will take over. GenX will continue to be relatively irrelevant politically. -t.genXer
- dragonwriter 2y ago> they are a huge bulge in the population and thus are set to dominate democratic politics until enough of them die off, at which point millenials/zoomers will take over. GenX will continue to be relatively irrelevant politically. Millenials are a (smaller than the Boomers) demographic bulge compared to the Gen X bust, and, combined with Gen X being more Republican for their age than both Boomers and Millenials, will probably as a single generation dominate Democratic politics (and are already coming to) without Gen X doing so, but suggesting that a "Millenial/Zoomer" alliance will presumes that there is natural similarity between Millenials and Zoomers within the Democratic coalition that does not exist between, say, Millenials and Gen X within the same coalition. While Gen Xers are less likely to be in the coalition at all, I don't think that's particulary true.