My view is that as Boomers accumulated wealth, the Neo Lib bullshit of starving the beast and lowering taxes endlessly becomes appealing. When you don’t have children in school and have enough money to cover medical bills, funding schools and hospitals does not matter to them anymore. They are the fuck you, I got mine generation. Motherfuckers are destroying the system that made them so prosperous.
Even that is a way over-applied stereotype. If you look at the results of the last few elections by age demographics, you’ll see that the difference between the percentage of boomers who voted conservative vs liberal is pretty small. Likewise the difference between the younger generations that voted liberal vs conservative. In fact, if I recall right, the percentage of the youngest voters who voted conservative actually grew between the last couple elections.
I’m a boomer, and the OP fits me. I’ve consistently voted more and more progressive as the conservatives have been more and more destructive. I go to protests, and I loudly advocate for progressive causes. The vast majority of my friends are the same way. We may not be the majority of our age group, but we’re a very large minority.
My view is that as Boomers accumulated wealth, the Neo Lib bullshit of starving the beast and lowering taxes endlessly becomes appealing. When you don’t have children in school and have enough money to cover medical bills, funding schools and hospitals does not matter to them anymore. They are the fuck you, I got mine generation. Motherfuckers are destroying the system that made them so prosperous.
Even that is a way over-applied stereotype. If you look at the results of the last few elections by age demographics, you’ll see that the difference between the percentage of boomers who voted conservative vs liberal is pretty small. Likewise the difference between the younger generations that voted liberal vs conservative. In fact, if I recall right, the percentage of the youngest voters who voted conservative actually grew between the last couple elections.
I’m a boomer, and the OP fits me. I’ve consistently voted more and more progressive as the conservatives have been more and more destructive. I go to protests, and I loudly advocate for progressive causes. The vast majority of my friends are the same way. We may not be the majority of our age group, but we’re a very large minority.