Overall, 39% of U.S. adults say they are “extremely proud” to be American in the most recent poll.
Meanwhile, only 18% of those aged 18-34 said the same, compared to 40% of those aged 35-54 and 50% of those 55 and over.
18% is still too high. As Obama’s pastor said, God damn America! Americans have very little to be proud of at this point.
I’m embarrassed to be American at this point… Republicans are literal fucking nazis, democrats continue catering to the whims of corporate lobbyist bribes, and corruption is everywhere. Nothing will change until the boomers start dying off ~2032, and that’s assuming we can remain a democracy that long.
Germany is currently seeing a resurgence of even-more-literal Nazis. France recently bypassed its legislature in order to force a higher retirement age. The Italian government is de-registering same-sex parents. I might point to literally any action done by the government of Hungary. And that’s just Europe.
These problems aren’t unique to America by any means. Democracy is very hard, no matter where you are. We’re certainly not doing well, but we could be doing much worse.
You’re crazy if you think there’s not a bunch if young generation politicians who are more than happy to cater to the whims of corporate lobbyist bribes, lol
Baby Boomers are already dying off, most are in their 70’s and retired now
Youngest boomers are 59. Gotta long way to go.
I wouldn’t consider 1964 to be baby boomer territory, or at least it’s at the very end of it. Baby Boomers are the hippy generation, they were the ones protesting Vietnam in the late 60’s early 70’s. By the time the Vietnam war ended they only would’ve been 10 years old. 90% of baby boomers are long gone from America at this point or have retired. Gen X is in charge now
I hate this. Actively wishing death on people because of the old “boomers bad” meme. You can’t really pin all of societies faults on boomers when there’s so many complex issues at play and so much propaganda machines. Are you hoping for the random 70 year old fella to die so your party wins? You have more reason to hate a executive from the same generation as you than some random boomer. The machinations that brainwash people into voting right wing will just make the next generation vote right wing as well. Letting capitalism divide people is how it wins.
Yep, and they’d do well to remember that the boomers were the ones who fought tooth and nail against Vietnam, the military industrial complex, and a very long struggle to get Roe v. Wade into law. Oh, and interracial marriage, Stonewall, women’s rights, workplace equality, and . . . the list goes on.
Much of what is being actively destroyed today is what boomers fought so hard to achieve in the 60s and 70s when average Americans still had a voice that was not corrupted by selfishness, greed, and foreign-based divisive propaganda. And they too paid the price: no one here seems to remember Kent State, or the sit-ins, or the Vietnam draft, or the many riots, or even the “Dick Nixon before Nixon dicks you” campaign buttons, lol.
While there are certainly many hard-right Fox-watching boomers that are every inch “I got mine so fuck you” there are many more as pissed off as the younguns because what they fought for so hard themselves has now been skewered by the same corporate/religious right interests they fought against.
A good example is abortion rights. Just because they are now too old to breed (or to have their bodies forced into carrying pregnancies against their will) does not mean that they don’t remember how it was BEFORE Roe v. Wade. Hell, even I remember those black and white gory pics of death by illegal abortion, and I was only a kid then.
There are good and bad in every generation, just as there is good and bad in every person. “Otherizing” entire groups based on their date of birth is just as ignorant as doing so based on their genitals or their bedfellows or their religion or their skin color.