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Is GenX Going to Get Passed Over? (1 Viewer)

TheMagus

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I've been having a lot of conversations about this with my age-relevant friends recently. It seems like the Boomers will not release the stranglehold they have had on this country for decades and they are still making a run at it.  And it seems like the new wave of Democrats is all focused on millennials (Bernie, uber-progressive) which kind of leaves all us Gen Xers in the dust. And @JAA made a post tonight that I 100% agreed with and supported how I've been feeling for a while.

Kinda off topic, but ive been thinking about something lately.

No one really talks about GenX.  Everyone always talk about Boomers, Millennials, and Zoomers.  What I have been thinking about is that my gut tells me GenXers (like myself) have a lot of qualities of the Boomers which make folks resilient, but also have a lot of the wisdom and experience that the Millennials are missing.  In conclusion my money is on GenX fixing all of this.  We can do this through letting Boomers know that "sometimes, people need to be on your lawn" and the Millennials "the things your parents gave you actually cost money that you need to work for".

GenX is going to save the world!!1!11!!
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Isn't it now our time to take over, Gen Xers? We should be controlling the country right now and I do feel like as a generation we are pragmatic while still having the empathy that is required to make progress that maybe some of the older generations don't have. 

A large part of the reason I am so disgusted by the current election situation is we may legitimately have to candidates pushing 80 years old going head to head. WHEN DO WE GET TO TAKE OVER??? And part of the problem is that they are "boomers" and they have a significant percentage of the voter base due to sheer volume. But now we have a situation where we are going to let the millennials  take control of the government. I love young idealogues and all that. But it is sort of Gen X's turn to take over and maybe be able to bridge the social gap between where the Boomers are and where the Millennials want to get to.

Thoughts?

 
dickey moe said:
Pete's pretty much one, right?
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He is in philosophy. But he's still a millennial. And he's not going to win the nomination. So we are going to have two septuagenarians running against each other in this election and then after that I think the millennials take over. And GenX never really has control of the country. 

 
I'm pretty sure it's around when schools started radicalizing both their curriculum for the youth and in college that you saw so many bright minds lag.  Or get distracted. 

 
rockaction said:
I'm pretty sure it's around when schools started radicalizing both their curriculum for the youth and in college that you saw so many bright minds lag.  Or get distracted. 
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Yea I'm not really into the whole "college is indoctrinating our youth" narrative. This was more about our generation should be taking over right now and it's not happening. 

 
TheMagus said:
Yea I'm not really into the whole "college is indoctrinating our youth" narrative. This was more about our generation should be taking over right now and it's not happening. 
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I wasn't necessarily talking indoctrination; I'm just wondering why, with respect to the absence of leadership, there is a vacuum. This is coincidental with new family, social, and academic norms. Perhaps it's a different topic for a different day. I was really talking about our generation's sort of walking away from everything, only to be skipped over. Our musical face shot himself. Our literary face hung himself. Things don't seem traversed. 

 
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TheMagus said:
Yea I'm not really into the whole "college is indoctrinating our youth" narrative. This was more about our generation should be taking over right now and it's not happening. 
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Wasn't Obama Gen X?  I don't think about this stuff so much, two geriatric boomers are basically dominating the electorate across the board, for entirely different ideological reasons.  My favorite candidate so far this election cycle was 89 years old, his campaign was run by a couple of 17 year olds.  Pete does great with older folks and not so good with younger ones. 

Maybe those are just anecdotal examples, but I think people are starting to look past ageist/identitarian precepts and beginning to identify with ideological ones.  That's a good thing to me.  That's the way it should be.  

 
It's simple, we haven't earned it. The people engaged in politics from our generation are Devin Nunes, Jim Jordan, Kevin McCarthy and other such pukes, morally bankrupt jerks who saw the movie Wall Street as a how to rather than a condemnation. We've failed, we deserve to get skipped.

 
ren hoek said:
Wasn't Obama Gen X? 
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I think strictly speaking, someone born in 1961 is more accurately defined as "Late Boomer". But culturally, I always felt like he was speaking my generation's language more than any other.

By the way, we will almost certainly never have a president born in the 1930s (McCain was the only one ever nominated) and it ain't looking too good for the '50s, either, unless maybe Pence (1959) succeeds Trump. They will be the first decades since 1810-19 to not produce a president.

 
Gen X will get into the White House. in the next 5-10 years. No question in my mind about that. We are a great generation. And one of the most determined in living the American Dream. 

 
Get rid of this huge Boomer generation.  Get this almost as huge Millenial generation working.  Up the Social Security of the much smaller Gen X generation. That's how Gen X do.....

 
Todem said:
Gen X will get into the White House. in the next 5-10 years. No question in my mind about that. We are a great generation. And one of the most determined in living the American Dream. 
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I don't see it.

The way in which we've been "determined in living the American Dream" hasn't translated into anything like greatness. Our biggest accomplishment is probably accelerating the pace of technological dominance in all areas of life. And we haven't really had enough time to determine if the net result will be positive or negative. Past that, we haven't done much.

 
TheMagus said:
No. We aren't all 50 yet but the highest range of our generation is 55 which is exactly when we should be taking over. And we are not at all. 
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I think we are kinda waiting to see whats the plan is from these exiting Boomers.  Frankly, their line of "ive been paying into this broken SS system for decades and I deserve my money" is falling on def ears.  You kicked the can down the road, forcing future generations to pay your burden while you hoard the rewards of the greatest generation, and you think you still get to reap the benefit?  I think not!

 
I think we've done alright, considering the boomers have their feet on our heads and the millennials have their hands in our pocketbooks.   I've always taken more of the life and work ethic approach of my grandfather, greatest Gen, WWII vet, did anything and everything to keep his family going.   Total get the job done kind of guy.  I feel like that at work as the boomers sometimes show up, and the millenials just want to talk about the problems and share their emotions.  Before they're finished complaining and hugging it out, me and my fellow Xers already took care of it.   

 
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rockaction said:
I wasn't necessarily talking indoctrination; I'm just wondering why the absence of leadership there is a vacuum, coincidental with new family, social, and academic norms. Perhaps it's a different topic for a different day. I was really talking about our generation's sort of walking away from everything, only to be skipped over. Our musical face shot himself. Our literary face hung himself. Things don't seem traversed. 
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Agree.  We havnt produced many leaders.  I think we need more of them.  I also think we need to step up in the political spectrum, even on the local level.  Political service isnt for everyone, but we should all consider it.

I believe this because even though I dont agree with a lot of the GOPers on here, I do believe they would try to do the right thing on a local level.  I dont believe they would run the local govt into the ground nor try to make any crazy shifts.  While we have some fundamental differences, most GenXers simple want to figure out a way to balance and temper everything.

 
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TheMagus said:
I've been having a lot of conversations about this with my age-relevant friends recently. It seems like the Boomers will not release the stranglehold they have had on this country for decades and they are still making a run at it.  And it seems like the new wave of Democrats is all focused on millennials (Bernie, uber-progressive) which kind of leaves all us Gen Xers in the dust. And @JAA made a post tonight that I 100% agreed with and supported how I've been feeling for a while.

Isn't it now our time to take over, Gen Xers? We should be controlling the country right now and I do feel like as a generation we are pragmatic while still having the empathy that is required to make progress that maybe some of the older generations don't have. 

A large part of the reason I am so disgusted by the current election situation is we may legitimately have to candidates pushing 80 years old going head to head. WHEN DO WE GET TO TAKE OVER??? And part of the problem is that they are "boomers" and they have a significant percentage of the voter base due to sheer volume. But now we have a situation where we are going to let the millennials  take control of the government. I love young idealogues and all that. But it is sort of Gen X's turn to take over and maybe be able to bridge the social gap between where the Boomers are and where the Millennials want to get to.

Thoughts?
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You're already seeing this in Europe.  Look at Finland.  And the Queen is like 100 and won't let Charles have the throne.  He's gonna be King for like 4 months.

 
beef said:
I think we've done alright, considering the boomers have their feet on our heads and the millennials have their hands in our pocketbooks.   I've always taken more of the life and work ethic approach of my grandfather, greatest Gen, WWII vet, did anything and everything to keep his family going.   Total get the job done kind of guy.  I feel like that at work as the boomers sometimes show up, and the millenials just want to talk about the problems and share their emotions.  Before they're finished complaining and hugging it out, me and my fellow Xers already took care of it.   
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Yeah, I hate it when they go on social media and constantly bellyache about how all the other generations in their vicinity are giving them the shaft.

 
JAA said:
I think we are kinda waiting to see whats the plan is from these exiting Boomers.  Frankly, their line of "ive been paying into this broken SS system for decades and I deserve my money" is falling on def ears.  You kicked the can down the road, forcing future generations to pay your burden while you hoard the rewards of the greatest generation, and you think you still get to reap the benefit?  I think not!
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And that is why we fail.

The prominent members of our generation currently are the ones who have figured out how to manipulate the oldsters to gain their own ends. The rest of us, as @rockaction alludes to, are opt-outers. We don't want to be engaged in anything important, we just want to binge watch superhero content and reality t.v., slake our lust with online pr0n,  and play video games. The only time we "rise up" is when our comfort is disrupted somehow.

 
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Gr00vus said:
And that is why we fail.

The prominent members of our generation currently are the ones who have figured out how to manipulate the oldsters to gain their own ends. The rest of us, as @rockaction alludes to, are opt-outers. We don't want to be engaged in anything important, we just want to binge watch superhero content and play video games.
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Honest to God, I was 100% one until Trump started being Trump and I was aghast.  So on one hand I need to thank Mr Trump for motivating me to care, on the other, its taking me a lot of time to re-watch The Wire thanks to all this political posting!

 
Gen X is kind of forgotten because they are not really at an extreme. If the argument is boomers were handed everything, and millennials got the shaft, being somewhere in the middle is just not super newsworthy. Gen X - didn't get as much stuff as boomers, got more than millennials. Not super catchy. 

 
huthut said:
Gen X is kind of forgotten because they are not really at an extreme. If the argument is boomers were handed everything, and millennials got the shaft, being somewhere in the middle is just not super newsworthy. Gen X - didn't get as much stuff as boomers, got more than millennials. Not super catchy. 
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We've also been smothered generationally by the boomers driving the policy that largely benefited them at each step of their life cycle and have been sitting here waiting to take over and start fixing some of this stuff. It seems like we aren't going to get that chance and the generations behind us seem to be in the more "burn it all down" mindset which also isn't great for our demographic. 

 
TheMagus said:
I've been having a lot of conversations about this with my age-relevant friends recently. It seems like the Boomers will not release the stranglehold they have had on this country for decades and they are still making a run at it.  And it seems like the new wave of Democrats is all focused on millennials (Bernie, uber-progressive) which kind of leaves all us Gen Xers in the dust. And @JAA made a post tonight that I 100% agreed with and supported how I've been feeling for a while.

Isn't it now our time to take over, Gen Xers? We should be controlling the country right now and I do feel like as a generation we are pragmatic while still having the empathy that is required to make progress that maybe some of the older generations don't have. 

A large part of the reason I am so disgusted by the current election situation is we may legitimately have to candidates pushing 80 years old going head to head. WHEN DO WE GET TO TAKE OVER??? And part of the problem is that they are "boomers" and they have a significant percentage of the voter base due to sheer volume. But now we have a situation where we are going to let the millennials  take control of the government. I love young idealogues and all that. But it is sort of Gen X's turn to take over and maybe be able to bridge the social gap between where the Boomers are and where the Millennials want to get to.

Thoughts?
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I don't disagree

What office are you looking to run for? 

 
The Great Boomer Die-off starts later this decade. You (know-it-all) Genexers need to start getting in front of the Millennials and Gen Zs right tf now. They will be in position to dominate the electorate with their numbers but they'll need your leadership moving the country forward. And I mean forward, not embracing the past and impeding the changes that we need. If you're just gonna be another Silent or Boomer in your political and social views, who needs you?

Do it. Do it now.

 
TheMagus said:
We've also been smothered generationally by the boomers driving the policy that largely benefited them at each step of their life cycle and have been sitting here waiting to take over and start fixing some of this stuff. It seems like we aren't going to get that chance and the generations behind us seem to be in the more "burn it all down" mindset which also isn't great for our demographic. 
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I think our time is coming.  We will live longer than the boomers so I think it makes sense we start a little later.  Im guessing over the next 4-8 years we will see a bunch of new faces pushing through all the political levels.

 
beef said:
I think we've done alright, considering the boomers have their feet on our heads and the millennials have their hands in our pocketbooks.   I've always taken more of the life and work ethic approach of my grandfather, greatest Gen, WWII vet, did anything and everything to keep his family going.   Total get the job done kind of guy.  I feel like that at work as the boomers sometimes show up, and the millenials just want to talk about the problems and share their emotions.  Before they're finished complaining and hugging it out, me and my fellow Xers already took care of it.   
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These generational stereotypes crack me up.   There are slackers and hard workers in every generation. 

My advice:  Do what YOU need to do to provide for your family while at the same trying to help others that are less fortunate and make the world a better place.

Or you can complain about about other generations.  

 
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Workhorse said:
I'm far less concerned about getting passed over politically than I am about paying into Social Security my whole working life and having it vanish just as I retire.

:kicksrock:
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One of the ways your generation disappoints us is by falling victim to the same kind of anecdotal fearmongering that the generations older than you have been falling for their entire lives.

We'll be dead soon, ffs. Your children's generation will be better educated than your parents and grandparents ever could have dreamed for themselves. Take advantage of that. Lead them. Fix our election system. Make government work for the people who pay it. Make the people who pay for it understand what is reasonable to expect for its money. 

DON'T BE LIKE THE ####### OLD PEOPLE

 
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