It's Gen-X's turn now

[BrightShinyGirl]

LOL I didn't make the cutoffs. But yes she is technically a boomer. Or would she be a Xoomer. Ha.

I'll agree that she's liminal, but putting Harris in the same generation as Hillary Clinton is weird. Kamala was 4 years old during Woodstock. She was born after the Kennedy assassination. Not a Boomer.

 

[adrina]

The times when we are born defines us to a point but not all that much. Harris and I have pretty much the same attitude and i am from the silent generation.

Sadly most of our government is from the silent gen - and acts like it.

 

[adrina]

Honestly I feel like Gen X just decided to politely sit things out for some reason that I don't know. Like they decided they were pissed at the Greatest Generation and the Boomers but their big move was to spend a decade telling us how bad The Man is and hope that would be enough. They are gonna get skipped right over for whatever reason.





There is a ton the Democratic Party offers. You spend too much time here to spew that BS.

We were too busy inventing things like 8/16 bit, Atari, Apple, MySpace, Twitter (til Elon blah) and all the fun gadgets.

Plus our numbers sucked. We were never going to be much of a voting block at less than 20% and there's too many of us that are still conservative.

 

[subdudeme13]

Sadly most of our government is from the silent gen - and acts like it.

The average age of the House and Senate is closer to Boomers and on the cusp of GenX . Time flies.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Honestly I feel like Gen X just decided to politely sit things out for some reason that I don't know. Like they decided they were pissed at the Greatest Generation and the Boomers but their big move was to spend a decade telling us how bad The Man is and hope that would be enough. They are gonna get skipped right over for whatever reason.





There is a ton the Democratic Party offers. You spend too much time here to spew that BS.

I have a slightly different take. I'm a generation-Jones boomer (i.e. latter half of the boomer cohort) and once the boomers got their hands on the levers of power in America they would not relinquish it. This is why we had two geriatric candidates for President until very recently. Boomers used their sheer population density to hang on to power. The bad part is there are two percent fewer boomers in America with each election cycle starting in 2000. 2020 was the tipping point, they now comprise something like 48 percent of American voters and that's why they've concentrated their efforts from restricting other people from voting.

 

[Rotadom]

Its hard to take anything you say seriously

You could have stopped there.

 

[adrina]

The average age of the House and Senate is closer to Boomers and on the cusp of GenX . Time flies.

Good point. Unfortunately the Feinsteins, McConnells and a few others are seriously hiking up the average.

 

[subdudeme13]

Good point. Unfortunately the Feinsteins, McConnells and a few others are seriously hiking up the average.

Feinstein is not hiking it up. Every generation has it's good and bad.

 

[RobDownSouth]

<snip snip snip>

The reasons for concern relating to switching horses mid-stream were / are very valid and real: The Democratic Party has defied all expectations with the speed and organization of the transition - and there are likely some powerful Democrats working in the background who deserve some serious credit for how well things have gone - so far.

Hope ALL ^ that helps.

This ^^^ is possibly the story of the year (which is amazing in a year where a President was convicted of a felony, staged a shooting, and a sitting President opted not to run for re-election).

The Democratic party is the "inclusive" party, and that inclusion has made for some interesting internal jostling. I think the party as a whole got a wakeup call in 2016 when the Bernie Bros actively sabotaged Hillary Clinton.

I was pleasantly surprised how fast and ruthlessly efficient the Democratic party was in immediately lining up behind one candidate to carry the banner against Team Orange's fascist Project 2025 agenda.

 

[RobDownSouth]

The average age of the House and Senate is closer to Boomers and on the cusp of GenX . Time flies.

56 of 100 United States Senators are age 65 or older. The "Average" age of a US Senator is 64 years old...with two outliers in their 30s.

 

[Lazaran]

I was wrong.

See how easy that was.

You (we) weren’t “wrong” to be concerned - yet.

There is STILL a campaign to be run and an election to be won.

And things certainly went better than ANYONE expected as far as Democrats coalescing in support of Kamala.

The individual(s) responsible for herding the cats during this "crisis" should be roundly applauded and celebrated.

 

[MajorRewrite]

Hate to break it to you but GenX starts at 1965 and she was born in 1964. Technically she's a boomer.

Not in attitude though.

She’s a boomer!! Suck it GenX!

Boomers for Harris She’s one of us!

 

[adrina]

Feinstein is not hiking it up. Every generation has it's good and bad.

I was being tongue in cheek. You're losing your Gen X attitudinal cred.

 

[MajorRewrite]

After I chase some kids off my lawn, I’m gonna come back and explain why we boomers have always been the best at everything.

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

Since it's a contentious point I pulled Strauss & Howe's 1991 Generations off the shelf to see the dates they use:

• G.I. 1901-1924
• Silent 1925-1942
• Boom 1943-1960
• Thirteenth 1961-1981
• Millennial 1982-?

(Their name for Gen-X is "Thirteenth") They list prominent Xers in 1991 as Michael J. Fox and Eddie Murphy, both born in '61 and Brooke Shields, born in '65.

They predict that core years for a Gen-X President will be 2020-2040. Joe Biden fits the generational stereotype of the wise old Boomer providing sage advice to the pragmatic Gen-X leader in charge.

 

[RobDownSouth]

My preference is people who don't use dumb marketing labels like "Gen X." Plain numbers would be more useful to indicate age. Or something more descriptive, like the Asscrack Generation, for the guys with sagging pants.

Initially there were only two age cohorts: The so-called "Greatest Generation" (average age 98 now) and the Baby Boomers (starting at the end of WW2 and ending with the approval of the birth control pill in 1964. Then everyone wanted in on the act with their own "fun" generational cohort name.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Since it's a contentious point I pulled Strauss & Howe's 1991 Generations off the shelf to see the dates they use:

• G.I. 1901-1924
• Silent 1925-1942
• Boom 1943-1960
• Thirteenth 1961-1981
• Millennial 1982-?

(Their name for Gen-X is "Thirteenth") They list prominent Xers in 1991 as Michael J. Fox and Eddie Murphy, both born in '61 and Brooke Shields, born in '65.

They predict that core years for a Gen-X President will be 2020-2040. Joe Biden fits the generational stereotype of the wise old Boomer providing sage advice to the pragmatic Gen-X leader in charge.

Even more fun is the Generation Death Count Clock. Boomers achieved a goal last month: 33.3% of all boomers are dead.

 

[jaF0]

I was pleasantly surprised how fast and ruthlessly efficient the Democratic party was in immediately lining up behind one candidate to carry the banner against Team Orange's fascist Project 2025 agenda.

Well, ya know cuz it was all planned and orchestrated and consipracied way long out ahead of time.

 

[adrina]

Even more fun is the Generation Death Count Clock. Boomers achieved a goal last month: 33.3% of all boomers are dead.

The "extinction" date is quite direct.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Well, ya know cuz it was all planned and orchestrated and consipracied way long out ahead of time.

Oh noe! You mean the Illuminati is behind all this?

 

[MajorRewrite]

Since it's a contentious point I pulled Strauss & Howe's 1991 Generations off the shelf to see the dates they use:

• G.I. 1901-1924
• Silent 1925-1942
• Boom 1943-1960
• Thirteenth 1961-1981
• Millennial 1982-?

(Their name for Gen-X is "Thirteenth") They list prominent Xers in 1991 as Michael J. Fox and Eddie Murphy, both born in '61 and Brooke Shields, born in '65.

They predict that core years for a Gen-X President will be 2020-2040. Joe Biden fits the generational stereotype of the wise old Boomer providing sage advice to the pragmatic Gen-X leader in charge.

I refuse to be a “thirteenth” and demand to be acknowledged as a true blue Boomer!

Those of us in the last 4 years of the boom will not be denied!

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

Initially there were only two age cohorts: The so-called "Greatest Generation" (average age 98 now) and the Baby Boomers (starting at the end of WW2 and ending with the approval of the birth control pill in 1964. Then everyone wanted in on the act with their own "fun" generational cohort name.

When Strauss & Howe invented the idea of generational archetypes in the 90s, there were four main generations (see my post above) The Millennials were their name for the babies being born when the book was being published.

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

I refuse to be a “thirteenth” and demand to be acknowledged as a true blue Boomer!

Those of us in the last 4 years of the boom will not be denied!

The Boomers suck. You're an Xer.

 

[MajorRewrite]

The Boomers suck. You're an Xer.

Noooooooooo! I’m too rich to be GenX!

I’m going to write a letter to someone in protest. Where did I put the stamps?

 

[TastySuckToy]

Some time, in some future, I'd like to see conservatives that didn't enjoy attempting to be bullies that find derision as their best tool.

It's just sad.

Are you actually going to sit there with a straight face and pretend I'm capable of 'bullying' you on these forums?