Boomers are a scapegoat, used a bit like immigrants, minorities and AI as an excuse for attacks on the working class. The US is an plutocratic oligarchy, not a

Boomers are a scapegoat, used a bit like immigrants, minorities and AI as an excuse for attacks on the working class. The US is an plutocratic oligarchy, not a boomerocracy: https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746 https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746 The candidates which would pursue popular policies tend to get nixed via underhanded political means before ascending to higher office. The oligarchy uses campaign financing and the media they own as a club to beat the two parties into submission and to stamp out any kind of populist opposition which wants to pursue policies which are oligarchy-unfriendly. This includes any kind of reform which might interfere with the value of their property portfolios or redirect their streams of unearned rental income.