• toadjones79@lemm.ee
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    22 hours ago

    I can’t argue with that. But as a late Gen X, I graduated highschool at the time when my age was the wealthiest generation in human history. The politics that led us here is not just Boomers fault. Millennials, Gen X, and even the Silent Gen have blame here too. We were all too happy to see Clinton continue Reagan’s pandering and then felt shoehorned into most of this by the 911 attacks. The economy collapsed and then Bush’s policies totally saved us… for a few years. Then the recession hit and the Bush era legal changed wrecked our ability to regulate our government officials leaving us vulnerable to corporate slavery.

    • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      Not a single millennial was old enough to vote for Clinton. Barely any were old enough to vote for Bush, even during his second term.

      Do not lump millennials in with that mess. We didn’t make it, we were just forced to grow up with it.