• Custoslibera@lemmy.world
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    How did these boomers vote?

    What policies did they support for their entire lives that have impacted this?

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          Every thread where boomers get mentioned, there’s so much hate, and a lot of questionable information. I don’t think this community would stand for it if people said “I can’t wait until they’re all dead” about any other group, but I see it regularly about boomers.

          Here’s a Pew research chart on the 2020 election demographics by age. Yes, it does show that there are more older Trump voters than older Biden voters, but bit look at the magnitude of the differences - it’s very small. Also notice that the difference between the number of younger Trump voters and younger Biden voters isn’t that great either.

          People think all the older people are wearing MAGA hats and all the younger people are wearing pride shirts, but the reality is the amount that the age groups skew one way or the other isn’t that huge. There are tons of liberal older people (like me) and lots of conservative younger people.

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            wow, they’re barely different. thanks for sharing the stats 🙂

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              I’m not seeing the disconnect. Your said an awful lot of boomers are GOP voters. I said that it’s more than half, but not a lot more, and the percentage of younger GOP voters wasn’t a lot less than half. What did I miss?

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                Was I wrong?

                If you want to adopt the boomer tag and be offended go right ahead, but the point is, the boomer generation had the leg up on voting during their prime years and they chose to elect pieces of shit that slowed world’s progress and harmed millions of innocent people. Sure there were boomers who didn’t but I’m not talking about them.

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                  I think you’re wrong. Look back on the chart I linked, at the first column in each set. That’s the demographics back in 96, since we’re talking about laws enacted that we’re living with. We could go back further, but this one is handy and the data doesn’t change drastically.

                  You’re saying boomers have been voting conservative and elected in all those shitty Republicans who passed laws favoring the rich. Well here’s the data. Keep in mind that in 1996, boomers were 32 to 50 years old.

                  • The same percentage of people 18 to 29 voted for Republicans as Democrats.
                  • For people 30 to 49 (the vast majority are boomers), 43% voted Republican and 41% voted Democrat, just a 2% difference
                  • For people 50 to 64, 22% voted Republican and 21% voted Democrat, a 1% difference
                  • For people 65 and older, 18% voted Republican and 20% voted Democrat, a 2% difference

                  So where’s the wild split saying boomers were overwhelmingly conservative? Oh, and take a look at this chart showing average political leaning by year of birth. It just doesn’t hold water. The silent generation shows as much more conservative, but you know what? It’s because that data was taken when they were old. When they were young, it wasn’t nearly as true. Old boomers now are more conservative than younger boomers on average; is basically true for every generation and there’s zero evidence that it don’t be true for whichever one you fall into.

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        For every hippy progressive, there were at least 5 Leave it to Beavers ready to take up the conservative mantle. Sure, not every Boomer supported the GOP, but a ton definitely did.