A Democratic group aimed at recruiting and supporting younger candidates for political office announced its first slate of endorsements. Leaders We Deserve — a group founded by March For Our Lives …
Let’s fucking go. Get some young idealists in there who haven’t been brain fucked yet by trying to work their way up through this busted ass system. We can make changes we just need people willing to stand up for us.
Man, Gen-X really can just go screw themselves, huh. We’re going to go straight from boomers to millennials running everything.
I mean… lol. Gen X makes up ~33% of the US House and ~20% of the overall population.
Meanwhile, Millennials make up 8% of the House and 25% of the population.
Yeah. But I’d bet most of them were still born in the 1960s…
Technically Gen X, but effectively boomers.
The edges of generations are fuzzy.
It’s evenly distributed.
- 50 born 1965-1969
- 49 born 1970-1974
- 50 born 1975-1979
Point is, Gen X is PLENTY represented in Congress.
I mean, yeah, but it’s a good thing.
We only fix this problem of overaged politicians by some generation “skipping their turn”.
If Gen X doesn’t do it, then the problem stays around.
I’d much rather have a competent future oriented government during my retirement than a bunch of (by that point) out of touch people because they waited for their turn.
If “stepping aside” as a generation is what fixes, well, that’s what Gen X has been training for our whole lives. I don’t see why I shouldn’t vote for younger generations simply because I’m older than them.
As an Xer I agree. I have been that way at work to. I avoid management like a plague and wish for younger folk. Like a lot of things if I was going to do that crap I should have been able to start younger. Honestly I don’t want to deal with the stuff that came out of the generation before, I hope the next gen has the energy for it.
I feel this comment in my millennial bones.
