Baby boomers comprised a larger share of voters in 2024, accounting for 32%, but they are trending lower after hitting a peak of 36% in 2016.

Ocasio-Cortez, a millennial herself, expects the younger generation will soon tip the scales in American politics.

“Millennials are not punk kids anymore. We’re grown adults with mortgages and kids,” she said. “And we—that generation is starting to be decisive at the polls. And there is anger at being ignored, sidelined, having our economic futures mortgaged by the generations that came before us on everything from the economy to climate. And we’re taking the reins.”

From global warming to debt crisis to lack of affordable health insurance (all intentional), Boomers have definitely overstayed their welcome.

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[–] 238 points 1 month ago (37 children)

This day and age with a growing positive sentiment toward authoritarianism, anti intellectualism, and fascism, I think some punk would be good. A lot of punk, even.

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    [–] 91 points 1 month ago (29 children)

    In 1960, minimum wage was $1.00/hour and the price of the average US home was $11,000.00

    A Boomer could graduate high school and be living in their own place with no roommates with money they'd earned delivering newspapers.

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  • [–] 48 points 1 month ago (26 children)

    And depending on their area, that house may sell for a million+ now to millenials who have no other option if they want to live the classic american white picket fence dream

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  • [–] 20 points 1 month ago (9 children)

    I think that the US as a country needs to abandon the idea that every family should have a detached house with four bedrooms, two cars, and a lush green front garden surrounded by a picket fence. It's just not sustainable. That made sense in 1960, but the country's population has doubled since then.

    On the other hand, I would like to see it possible for every family to be able to at least afford a basic 2-bedroom condominium with all the amenities that modern life has to offer, including walkable spaces, accessible green areas, and reliable public transportation.

    11,000 hours of minimum wage labour in my city would be $185,000. Maybe a bit too low to be entirely realistic, but $200,000 is probably within reach with a bit of elbow grease on the government side.

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    [–] 76 points 1 month ago (38 children)

    This framing gets it wrong. It isn’t boomers vs. millennials. It isn’t immigrants vs. citizens. It’s ordinary people fighting over a shrinking share while an extraordinarily wealthy few accumulate more money, assets and political power than they could ever need. Stop turning class problems into generational wars. Tax extreme wealth.

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  • [–] 49 points 1 month ago (21 children)

    I agree that is class war but boomers are enabling the wealthy.

    Boomers would rather punish millennials for our avocado toast than see billionaires taxed.

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    [–] 52 points 1 month ago (34 children)

    True to form - Gen X getting skipped over in the discussion again.

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  • [–] 66 points 1 month ago (27 children)

    Make no mistake, Gen-X is part of the problem.

    And I fully expect to be downvoted for my unpopular opinion.

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  • [–] 79 points 1 month ago (14 children)

    In my experience, the older Gen X are not distinguishable from boomers while the younger Gen X are not distinguishable from millenials.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    There is a small overlap between (iirc) 1977-1982 (maybe 76-81) where they are called Xennials.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    That's where I fall. My life was a Millennial life, not a Gen X life. All the stuff Millennials complain about happened to me first!

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  • [–] 18 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    I managed to catch the dot com bubble within a year of getting a steady job, got laid off, worked overseas because there was no work where I lived, finally decided to move back and took the mortgage crisis straight in the nads. That was nearly a decade of my employment life that was interrupted/nerfed.

    Make no mistake, Gen X has not been well served by the boomers. I'm sure there are greedy fucks in every generation, and the greedy Gen Xers probably got rich earlier and faster than Y and Z, but the systemic shit is a boomer badge to wear.

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    [–] 48 points 1 month ago* (21 children)

    This is not old versus young, plenty of old heads want what the younger gen wants.

    This is class warfare. The Epstein class has been attacking the rest of us for ages with impunity. The first strike came from Senator Joe McCarthy in the 1950s.

    I appreciate what AOC does in most respects, but this is a miss for her. We can’t afford this divisive messaging and she needs to be told this.

    Accountability to the people for ALL politicians.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago (18 children)

    Except in a way it is old vs young. The old will need more and more care, and that ends up coming from the youth. The same youth that were promised a future that doesn't exist, and now have little desire to give giving what they cannot afford. Many countries are going to have to have a real reckoning with aging populations, and few have even started the conversation.

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    [–] 34 points 1 month ago (9 children)

    Just like the death of the Republican party, we've been hearing this too for a decade now.

    Millennials will be the next biggest voting block! Gen Y is pissed and going to change everything in the voting landscape!

    So far, not a god damn thing. I mean, we're not seeing record turn out outside of one single election and in the last election we even saw that millennials increased their voting share to Republicans.

    They may be mad but they're the exact same morons as the rest of America.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    The momentum was never there because we were all busy following the boomer path of trying to go to college to make aoemthing of ourselves and ended up in college debt for life and then got shat on, by the very people who raised us to take that path in good faith hoping it would work out the same for us as it did them but it fucking didn't.

    It's 50/50 here ya know. Like we all had the chance to not do what they said to do or go against the paths we were raised to follow and do our own thing. They also failed to see the absolute state of the changing world and only focused on what benefits them.

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    [–] 33 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I'm Xillenial. There is NO part of my life that has not been dominated by boomers. Even now, it's still the boomers running things. There Gen X didn't exist. Millennials only exist because they complained after being denied the dream.

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    [–] 31 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    She didn't say "boomers", fucking Fortune added that. And they reported this specifically to stir the bogus generational conflict.

    AOC should not have mentioned generations at all, she's supposed to be uniting us against the billionaire class, and here she is quoted in a billionaire rag about this. I hope she does better, and soon.

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    [–] 31 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (8 children)

    We're also mad about the corruption, industrial scale pedophilia, and the land theft and genocide. Thats not going away. There needs to be paybacks. The guillotines arent for show. We have criminals to round up.

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    [–] 27 points 1 month ago (10 children)

    We may not be punk kids anymore but we’re definitely still punk.

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    [–] 24 points 1 month ago

    ...driven by anger over economic futures...

    Sounds pretty punk rock to me.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 month ago* (19 children)

    Every single generation in the past 100 years has said the same thing. "My generation will fix it when we're in charge".

    The God Damn boomers were the hippies from the 60s. What the fuck happened to peace and love?

    My generation (Gen X), my goodness, we could see through all the bullshit. We're the original centrists.

    Every single one of my children's Gen Z friends are all so woke they never sleep.

    Turns out every generation is full of selfish shortsighted dumbasses just like the one before it. Just like "The Greatest Generation". Just like the boomers. Just like Gen X.

    Faith in humanity...fading

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  • [–] 18 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    The people who were hippies in the 60s are mostly still hippies today. Well, the ones who subscribed to the peace and love philosophy at least. Despite the media attention the hippies were never large enough to be a politically influential group in that generation. Most of the boomers grew up bullying the hippies.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Both my boomer parents were hippies. My Mom literally lived in a commune for some time in her early 20s. She voted for the T-Dog in 2016 because she wanted to see real change.

    I used to chuckle when I was a kid the way my Dad would look at me and roll his eyes when my grandparents would talk about politics and religion. My Dad loves his MAGA hats now. And wonders why his grandchildren don't want to be around him.

    My sample size of 2 says otherwise!

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    [–] 16 points 1 month ago (11 children)

    I'm 43 and have been married for nearly 20 years. We are the old people now

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    [–] 16 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Speak for yourself I'm a punk kid for life, at least my weight says so

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    [–] 15 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I'm still a punk kid inside and as one I'm still raging against authority.

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    [–] 13 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Young people have always had an abysmal voter turnout. Y’all need to vote, and not just the big ticket presidential elections. The state legislature elections are every bit as important, if not more important.

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    [–] 12 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I’m a millennial. I’m well into my 40’s ffs.

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    [–] 12 points 1 month ago

    Yeah... We're punk adults now. 🤘

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago

    Yeah we're middle aged punks now!

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    We're grown adults with mortgages and kids

    If we're lucky

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