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Bruce Springsteen says Trump is running ‘rogue government’ and ‘siding with dictators’
(www.theguardian.com)
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Annnnnnnd boomers hate Springsteen now.
Countdown to Faux News bashing the "antisemite, American hating, Hamas supporter, communist Springsteen."
Really? Boomers? You do realize boomers were hippies, right? And that the mean age for federal workers means that most are 44. Fully millennial.
It's just a mouthful to have to parse out every segment of that generation that is cool when his audience, and the people most likely to get mad about him, are of the boomer generation.
I'm not sure what the federal worker bit has to do with it. It was mostly a joke in that the people most likely to be his fans are boomers, he comes out and says what he did, and now they hate him.
Be careful there. You're dangerously close to falling into the trap of blindly labeling anyone older than you a "boomer" and using the term disparagingly to paint a broad stroke that isn't justified.
According to Wikipedia, Baby Boomers are the generation "often defined as people born from 1946 to 1964 during the mid-20th century baby boom that followed the end of World War II."
They are followed by Generation X, which is "generally defined as people born from 1965 to 1980"
"Born in the USA" was recorded in 1984
The oldest "boomers" at this point were nearing 40 years old. Some of the oldest Gen Xers were already in college. So one could easily argue that most of his fans are probably Gen Xers.
Here's a few things that the "boomer generation" is known for that you may not be aware (just to barely scratch the surface).
Bruce Springsteen (a boomer) has never been shy about his views on these kinds of things. His actual fans are fully aware and still fans. This isn't him surprising them with some radical statement out of nowhere. This is him reminding them of what they already knew and asking them to continue to fight the good fight.
ETA: Another notable boomer was arrested this week protesting a congressional hearing.
thank you. you showed it much better than I did.
The older you are at the moment, the more statistically likely your demographic aligns with Trump, the more hateful and biggoted you are likely to be.
Maybe the Good Boomers died out, or maybe the lead in the water or the cable news monopoly has rewired their brains. Maybe they were always disproportionately represented/covered by the media and historians.
Jesus Christ! Look at your own chart and actually read it! Look at the bottom 3 lines. 43%, 46%, 39%. That's millions of people that you're straight faced pretending don't exist.
No! They're right there in your chart! Voting! Protesting! Getting arrested for protesting! Fucking hell!
Did some drift to the right? Sure. But that doesn't mean that the rest of them cease to exist. The same thing is already happening to your generation, whatever it is. If you happen to be one of the measly 46% still on the left when you're in your 70's, I'm sure you won't have any complaints when people tell you that you don't exist, anymore. I mean, 46% of 30ish million people is only... what... 5 or 6 people? Maybe a dozen at most? I don't know, you do the math.
Every protest I've been to so far this year (Hands Off, May Day, multiple Saturday mornings in front of the Tesla dealership, plus a few others) has been overwhelmingly people between 50 and 80. Where were all the younger generations at? I can tell you from personal experience where some of them were. They were driving by flipping us off. Where were you?
Yeah, if you put 10 boomers in a room then 6 are the enemy. This ain't rocket science, pal. Fuck boomers.