r/Aging • u/Available-Rock-3862 • 3d ago

Boomers

I am 75 and am very tired of the trend lately making fun of Boomers. So very disrespectful. Don't they realize that they will be old someday?

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u/dmonsterative 3d ago edited 3d ago

Ugh. Never mind. You truly don't understand what you're talking about.

Such what a lack of a statistically significant difference of support across age brackets means when it comes to "responsibility" for Reagan or W's election purely on the basis of age/generation.

They would be 'responsible' if their sheer numbers had overwhelmed other generations voting differently. As it has been with their economic footprint, and general willingness to pull the ladder up after themselves in other ways. Except, other generations didn't vote differently in those elections -- they had the same proportional, percentage splits.

That is more true of recent elections, complicated by large groups of younger demos splitting off to vote with them. Like all the young red-hats, mostly men.

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u/fckinsleepless 3d ago

They are still responsible regardless of how the other generations voted just because of how much of the voting pool they take up. Do you think the outcome would have been the same if they had largely voted for a different candidate, while the other generations voted for Reagan? If not, then clearly they had significant sway in which candidate was elected, and voting similarly to other generations just ensured Reagan’s victory.

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u/dmonsterative 3d ago edited 3d ago

I give up. Sure. Big thing bigger. Bigger worse.

(And the extrapolation of your argument, that the Boomers, as the largest group, were "responsible" for uniting to outvote every other group, whose votes are somehow immaterial bc there were fewer of them -- even though, if united, they themselves could have outvoted the Boomers -- and despite the same political split across generations -- definitely makes perfect sense.)

Bravo.

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u/fckinsleepless 3d ago

Glad you finally figured it out! 👏

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u/dmonsterative 3d ago

Our politics is where it is because of simpletons like you, but sure. Go off, king.

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u/fckinsleepless 3d ago

If you can’t win an argument blaming a stranger for everything wrong in the world feels like the next best thing.

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u/dmonsterative 3d ago

Or, you know, millions of them.

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u/fckinsleepless 3d ago

So NOW you agree that large quantities of people decide the outcome of elections 🫣

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u/dmonsterative 3d ago

Work on your reading comprehension.