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I think a lot of people forget what the world was like when the older baby boomers came of age.
That's all well and good, but let's hope we see the fruits of this swing at the ballot box.
if anybody reads what the DNC voted on for their platform lowering aging people's cost of healthcare was a big one and the rest of their platform was mostly for seniors to benefit off of it
more gerontocracy horseshit so no surprise people switched
we need a party for the younger people at this point that would fight for living wages and universal healthcare for all not just Medicare expansion and lowering prescription drug costs lowering that will mostly just help seniors
I mean helping seniors is important too. 1/3 have income below 200% of the poverty level, and the average SSI is $600/month.
But yeah, universal healthcare is a no-brainer.
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Am I fucking dreaming?
Did I fucking DIE on the morning of July 21st 2024 and ALL of this has been nothing but a manic hallucination as all my neurons fire off for one last time?
what i mean is, i honestly thought the boomers were beyond help???
I could have SWORN they stopped giving a shit about anything but enriching themselves and fucking over their kids and grandkids and great grandkids just for the sake of their own sick amusement an entire decade ago.
I am legitimately astonished that there's a scrap of decency left in them to even COMPREHEND supporting anything but absolutely the worst of all available wrong decisions.
there's actually some part of me that wonders if kamala actually winning the support of THEM could actually be some kind of red flag... O_o; I'm not going to entertain that part or cultivate it, i'm going to starve it into atrophy now that i've expressed and confronted the thought, but still, this is such a shock that it was actually there.
Republicans are coming for their old people benefits. They want to gut Social Security and Medicare. Any old person that has a scrap of intelligence hearing that is simply following their own self-interest to vote Democrat. Also helps that most young people in their lives are probably talking about Harris positively. We'll see if that pans out at the polls.
I mean, or it's just true that no group is a monolith and that even the misguided can change course. It's a good thing that was never impossible.
How about that. Harris moves to the left on domestic economic issues, and boomers switch to her. Even as prominent Republicans call her a commie.
Conventional "wisdom" within the centrist wing of the party is that we have to move to the right because boomers will flee in panic if we dare move to the left. Turns out, centrists have been full of shit this entire time. We've wasted so many years moving to the right for a lie. What else are centrists full of shit about?
Harris moves to the left on domestic economic issues, and boomers switch to her.
You might be making a classical correlation is not causation mistake here. There are a lot of separate reasons to prefer Harris over Trump.
Where were you for the past few decades when centrists were gleefully announcing that all wins are because they moved to the right, and any losses are because they were too far to the left?
What aren't they full of shit about?
did they finally realize GOP is going to take everything away from everyone who isn't a billionaire and give it to billionaires? like they started in 16?