re: PSA for Millennials and Gen Zers

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You do realize that Fuentes and others in that same camp told their followers to vote blue right to punish the broken promises of 2024?

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And for the love of everything holy I hope you have written this idiot off as a viable source of any influence if this is true. Because that's the dumbest plan that can ever be conceived.

This was supposedly the claimed cause of Trump being elected again. To "teach the democrats a lesson". Did it work?

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Believe what you want to

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Did a bartender in New York not do it? She's being mentioned by some people to be a candidate for the position in a hypothetical next democratic administration for crying out loud.

A copy and paste from Facebook.

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You do realize that Fuentes and others in that same camp told their followers to vote blue right to punish the broken promises of 2024? These are far right people. I promise you, they are not woke, liberals

He is the Rush Limbaugh of that demographic, and they showed themselves to be a force in this election.

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This is retarded.

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Are there any numbers youd like to dispute?

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Strawmam is strawman.

The numbers may be approximately correct, but the conclusions drawn from them are not.

Federal expenditures reached approximately $7.49 trillion in 2025, roughly an eight- to nine-fold increase.

But there's a fundamental problem: you are comparing nominal dollars across 41 years without accounting for inflation or population growth.

The purchasing power of a dollar in 1984 was substantially greater than it is today so fewer were needed for the same goods and services.

The relevant question isn't whether federal spending increased. Of course it did.

It's whether federal spending increased faster than the economy, and whether the additional spending produced corresponding value.

Additionally, Boomers didn't control the federal government for this entire period. Presidents and congressional majorities from multiple generations and political parties contributed to those decisions.

The money supply did grow, but again, this is a nominal comparison.

Money supply growth isn't synonymous with wealth creation, economic prosperity, or even inflation.

There are also measurement considerations: the Federal Reserve changed its M1 and M2 statistical definitions in 2020.

And who was responsible for monetary policy?

The Federal Reserve is independent of the president and Congress in its monetary policy decisions. Its leadership and the political environment changed repeatedly throughout this period.

You cannot simply attribute the expansion of the money supply to one generation.

Boomers were born between 1946 and 1964. In 1984, they were approximately 20 to 38 years old.

They were certainly becoming an increasingly influential voting population, but that doesn't mean they were already the dominant voting generation.

Pew Research data show that Boomers reached their peak as a voting-eligible generation in 2004, with approximately 73 million eligible voters. In 2016, they still represented approximately 31% of eligible voters, compared with 27% for Millennials

So the claim that Boomers have been the largest block of participating voters since 1980 or 1984 needs considerably more evidence.

Even if we establish that Boomers exercised disproportionate political influence for several decades, that still doesn't establish that they collectively made the decisions attributed to them.

I think the biggest intellectual weakness in your post is that it compares the difficulties facing younger people today with an idealized version of life in the 1950s and 1960s.

It treats the economic opportunities available to Boomers as though they were uniformly available, without considering the economic conditions under which they actually entered adulthood.

Here are some important examples:

Stagflation and the energy crises
Extremely high interest rates
The Vietnam War and military draft
Recessions and industrial restructuring

I'm not suggesting these challenges were equivalent to the challenges younger generations face today. They weren't necessarily worse.

I'm pointing out that the claim that Boomers never had to make hard decisions is historically indefensible.


You strawman lists developments spanning four decades, attributes them to one generation, and then blames that generation for the consequences.

But consider the timeline:

Boomers were born between 1946 and 1964.

They entered adulthood over a period spanning the 1960s through the early 1980s.

They became increasingly influential in the electorate during the 1980s and 1990s.

They held substantial political influence during the 2000s and 2010s.

Gen X and Millennials have increasingly shared political and institutional power since then.

Boomers didn't independently decide to expand federal spending, change monetary policy, increase university costs, restrict housing development or accumulate federal debt.

Those were decisions made by elected officials, regulators, institutions, businesses and voters across multiple generations.

And there's something else worth considering - Boomers didn't vote as a unified political bloc. They have always been divided by political affiliation, economic circumstances, geography and ideology.

Your post overlooks the fact that other generations have increasingly participated in the same political system and are now responsible for some of the decisions being made.

You can't assign all the blame to the generation that preceded you while absolving the generations that have since assumed political responsibility.

I’ve never met a boomer that’s good at anything other than talking shite like a limp wristed passive aggressive pussy. They’re the most selfish, soft, out of touch generation in the history of the United States and it isn’t even close. They’re the soft men that good times created even though they’re laughing in our faces right now saying that “we” created hard times

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That’s good, but I’m missing the point of the thread then. If you don’t care what boomers are saying, and boomers are a distinct minority in terms of registered voters - how are they controlling everything?

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I didn’t make the thread.

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Again... what are the plans for millennials and Gen Z to balance the budget, cut spending, and reduce the debt?

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What politicians are millennials and Gen Z that are in power and can make these decisions?

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And for the love of everything holy I hope you have written this idiot off as a viable source of any influence if this is true. Because that's the dumbest plan that can ever be conceived.

This was supposedly the claimed cause of Trump being elected again. To "teach the democrats a lesson". Did it work?

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I really dont care what you people think anymore. This thread wasnt for yall. You think I really value the opinion of old men who cant even control their emotions and do nothing but throw out juvenile insults in rage? You all should be ashamed of yourselves.

Dayum!

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I’ve never met a boomer that’s good at anything other than talking shite like a limp wristed passive aggressive pussy. They’re the most selfish, soft, out of touch generation in the history of the United States and it isn’t even close. They’re the soft men that good times created even though they’re laughing in our faces right now saying that “we” created hard times

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I have never met one that even remotely sounds like that. Sounds more like a millenial.