I think Gen X went from “invisible” to “the enemy” in a lot of folks’ minds when exit polling showed that they broke for Trump in 2024 by a greater margin than any other age group. Before that point most millennials just knew them as their cool older cousins, whose childhood was shrouded in a warm haze of half-remembered, half-imagined 80s nostalgia.
I think Gen X went from “invisible” to “the enemy” in a lot of folks’ minds when exit polling showed that they broke for Trump in 2024
All those polls are cucked anyway. You’re taking a national composite by age when the regional variants are overwhelming. More Florida and Texas Zoomers are voting for Trump than California and New York GenXers. The Gulf Coast suburbs are absolutely choked with people in their 30s and 40s brain-poisoned by decades of consumer slop and corporate culture. Age has far less to do with it than family politics, education/business environment, and media diet.
Before that point most millennials just knew them as their cool older cousins, whose childhood was shrouded in a warm haze of half-remembered, half-imagined 80s nostalgia.
Unfortunately, they still are. And the result is this deep reactionary clinging to the Clintons and Obamas as some kind of panacea for the modern moment.
They experienced the beginning of the internet and computers becoming a main part of people’s lives
They experienced the height of the cold war and experienced genuine concern for nuclear armageddon
They experienced the end of the cold war and a few years of peace
They experienced the beginning of grunge, hip hop music, heavy metal, MTV , and the peak of Michael Jackson
They experienced 9/11, the dot com bubble burst, the housing crash of 2008, the pandemic of 2020
They lived under the thumb of the silent generation and the boomer generation dominating politics for their entire life (as we all still do today) so there voice was never really heard.
Gen X in the firing line. Bring it on mfs, I’ve survived far worse and now I’m pulling the ladder up.
I think Gen X went from “invisible” to “the enemy” in a lot of folks’ minds when exit polling showed that they broke for Trump in 2024 by a greater margin than any other age group. Before that point most millennials just knew them as their cool older cousins, whose childhood was shrouded in a warm haze of half-remembered, half-imagined 80s nostalgia.
All those polls are cucked anyway. You’re taking a national composite by age when the regional variants are overwhelming. More Florida and Texas Zoomers are voting for Trump than California and New York GenXers. The Gulf Coast suburbs are absolutely choked with people in their 30s and 40s brain-poisoned by decades of consumer slop and corporate culture. Age has far less to do with it than family politics, education/business environment, and media diet.
Unfortunately, they still are. And the result is this deep reactionary clinging to the Clintons and Obamas as some kind of panacea for the modern moment.
Nobody ever really talks about Gen X.
There are no widespread positive opinions. Not really any negative ones either. They just kind of exist. Silently.
I have to say the Wall coming down was a crazy exciting thing to experience.
Now I’m sick and tired of living through once in a lifetime events. I’d love to go back to boring.
They experience neither highs nor lows so it makes sense
They experienced the beginning of the internet and computers becoming a main part of people’s lives
They experienced the height of the cold war and experienced genuine concern for nuclear armageddon
They experienced the end of the cold war and a few years of peace
They experienced the beginning of grunge, hip hop music, heavy metal, MTV , and the peak of Michael Jackson
They experienced 9/11, the dot com bubble burst, the housing crash of 2008, the pandemic of 2020
They lived under the thumb of the silent generation and the boomer generation dominating politics for their entire life (as we all still do today) so there voice was never really heard.