You are a small fringe minority in that age group and you know it. You're lumped in that group because almost every boomer I know still gets their news exclusively from Fox and refuses to change. The stereotype is accurate. You and your friends are remote exceptions.
Truth hurts. The fee boomers here, which I am proud of for breaking the mold, are a tiny fringe of their demographic. The overwhelming majority are still asleep watch Fox. OP was correct. It's happening this way because the vast majority are still sheep. Especially the older gen. Trust me I work in service. I run into a hundred new people on average a week. Mostly conservative. Almost all of them watch Fox and only Fox.
"You're lumped into that group because every boomer I know..." That right there is what the other side does. "All blacks are XXX...", "all Latinos do XXX...", "all women...", etc.
Stereotype: an often unfair and untrue belief that many people have about a group of people with a particular characteristic. (Britannica)
I have news for you... Boomer here with boomer friends that are wide awake and are not Faux news devotees. There are more of me and my friends than you realize. Hell, my 84yo mother was more awake than some people here!
Again, you and your friends, which I am very proud of, are the fringe minority. My job puts in contact with a lot of new people every week. Mostly conservative. In your age group, 90+% are Fox sheep. This is about fours of experience too and it hasn't changed much in the last two. I run into very few boomers getting their news outside Fox and even fewer doing their own real research. It's a critical issue and if we act like it's not because you and your friends say it's not, we can't address it properly. Frankly, I'm sick of this group because many of them are dumb enough to turn on Trump because they're too thick to release that narrative is being feed to them by Fox.
Im not a boomer. Im gen x. Born 1965. And I am not a small fringe minority. This is the age group all of my friends are in. Our first Presidential vote was Reagan in 1984. Dont tell me what "I know" because you are freaking clueless about what I know, where I live, who I associate with and our life experiences.
You and your friends do not change the fact that the majority of conservatives in a certain age group overwhelmingly get their news from only one place. There are majorities and there are always exceptions. The existence of exceptions do not discount the majorities existence just as noting the obvious majority does not discount your experience.
You are a small fringe minority in that age group and you know it. You're lumped in that group because almost every boomer I know still gets their news exclusively from Fox and refuses to change. The stereotype is accurate. You and your friends are remote exceptions.
Do you even hear yourself? Ffs I thought we were learning to actually think in here. Catch up pup or be left behind.
Truth hurts. The fee boomers here, which I am proud of for breaking the mold, are a tiny fringe of their demographic. The overwhelming majority are still asleep watch Fox. OP was correct. It's happening this way because the vast majority are still sheep. Especially the older gen. Trust me I work in service. I run into a hundred new people on average a week. Mostly conservative. Almost all of them watch Fox and only Fox.
"You're lumped into that group because every boomer I know..." That right there is what the other side does. "All blacks are XXX...", "all Latinos do XXX...", "all women...", etc.
Stereotype: an often unfair and untrue belief that many people have about a group of people with a particular characteristic. (Britannica)
I have news for you... Boomer here with boomer friends that are wide awake and are not Faux news devotees. There are more of me and my friends than you realize. Hell, my 84yo mother was more awake than some people here!
Again, you and your friends, which I am very proud of, are the fringe minority. My job puts in contact with a lot of new people every week. Mostly conservative. In your age group, 90+% are Fox sheep. This is about fours of experience too and it hasn't changed much in the last two. I run into very few boomers getting their news outside Fox and even fewer doing their own real research. It's a critical issue and if we act like it's not because you and your friends say it's not, we can't address it properly. Frankly, I'm sick of this group because many of them are dumb enough to turn on Trump because they're too thick to release that narrative is being feed to them by Fox.
"Stereotype" - an inconvenient truth.
Im not a boomer. Im gen x. Born 1965. And I am not a small fringe minority. This is the age group all of my friends are in. Our first Presidential vote was Reagan in 1984. Dont tell me what "I know" because you are freaking clueless about what I know, where I live, who I associate with and our life experiences.
You and your friends do not change the fact that the majority of conservatives in a certain age group overwhelmingly get their news from only one place. There are majorities and there are always exceptions. The existence of exceptions do not discount the majorities existence just as noting the obvious majority does not discount your experience.