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You're either ignorant or not arguing in good faith.
Boomers dismantled the safety net, starting with pensions. All through the 1990s, company after company went bankrupt and had a court dismiss their pensions, leaving retirees with nothing.
That is just ONE example of the world they created.
The problem with all of the people replying in this thread who think like you do is you apparently can't grasp that "boomer" is a generation and not a collective. It's not a political party or group that you join. It is a label that lands on you based on when you were born. You don't opt in to being a boomer. And yet you can't comprehend that what one boomer does has no relation to what another does. You see generational trends and think that, because a majority of boomers voted one way in any particular election they're all culpable for the consequences of conservative policies regardless of whether any individual actually voted that way.
Boomers were at Woodstock. Boomers were protesting the Vietnam war. Boomers led the women's liberation and civil rights movements. But you think they're all a bunch of conservatives who deserve to suffer from conservative policies.
A VERY tiny percentage of boomers went to woodstock. A very tiny percentage of boomer protested Vietnam. The majority just went to work and moved on with life. The media has long overrepresented just how engaged in these activities boomers really were and it really is no different than "avocado toast" or whatever nonsense is being spread around today.
Even just taking you at your word, it still means that you believe that "VERY tiny percentage" who did support civil rights and stood up against conservative warmongering deserve to suffer alongside the rest of their generation, because they were born at the wrong time.
The simple end of it is that you're just an ageist prick who has chosen your boogieman that you'll pin all of your problems on and can take pleasure in the suffering of.
This is the "you should feel bad for the people in Texas who didn't vote GOP" argument again. I can feel sad for those few souls while still thinking that Texas is ridiculous and focus my opinion towards the state as a whole being a shithole.
Really, though, it is unclear why you are so passionate on this subject except that perhaps you identify as part of that group and are taking it personally.
Not a boomer, sorry. I'm actually capable of feeling bad for the suffering of people that I don't identify with.
But you're right: Texas is a shit hole and yet we can feel bad for those who don't habitually vote for those who maintain it as a shit hole but have no ability to leave. So maybe you do understand nuance, so understand I was replying to someone telling boomers to "fuck themselves" in response to an article about how countless boomers are facing poverty as they retire. Those who are certainly weren't benefiting from a rigged system and pulling the ladder up from under them to make sure the rest of us are screwed too. And as I replied in another comment to you, only about half of boomers actually voted for Reagan, who is absolutely the president most responsible for the ultra-capitalist hell hole we're in today. So maybe extend some more of that empathy to other age groups that you give to geographic locations. Like I said, many of the boomers who will suffer have been screwed just as much as the rest of us, and a hell of a lot of them certainly didn't vote for it.
Lumping anyone together with the worst members of any arbitrary demographic they belong to, even if it was a (narrow) majority, is how irrational hatred persists.