I'm a very young Xer (August 79) and my kids are Gen Z. My sister was born in 71 and her kid is Gen Z.
I do not personally know a single other Gen Xer that is awake. They are all focused on their careers and sports and still listen to MSM. I do think if they could wake the hell up, they could be a powerful force for change and leadership, especially the 50+ men. Looks like it's gonna be painful for them though.
Same here. Sample pool is roughly half Libs, half centrists/GOPers. Sadly even the latter-day Reaganites in their late 40s/early 50s are utterly stuck in the suburban rat race mentality. HS Prom. Getting Billy or Mary to the good college (with crushing debt). Redoing the kitchen. Posting pics of the recent Cancun trip on FB. Etc, etc...
Part of me thinks that if they focus too long on the pandemic lockdowns and the Vaxx plan and the insane foreign policy and mass immigration and rising crime and social unrest, they will buckle mentally....so instead they are consciously doubling down on keeping up with the Joneses and life pre-2020 to the best they can.
If there is one silver-lining, if you can even call it that, it is the slow creep of "something unsettling" happening to the economy with every trip to the grocery store and gas station. That they talk about. Not in a scared way. But more in a "I see it" way. Many don't want to show or admit they are actually struggling (b/c it flies in the face of that they are not, in fact, keeping up with the Joneses) and this would be a tacit admission they may be f*****.
Gen x here. It's embarrassing how many of our gen are stubbornly unawake. I'm thankful our kids (zoomers) are getting it. They might be the key.
I would have guessed gen x is the most awake of the generations.
It is. No clue what the other guy is talking about. And our kids are millennials not zoomers. My three kids range from 38 years old to 27.
I'm a very young Xer (August 79) and my kids are Gen Z. My sister was born in 71 and her kid is Gen Z.
I do not personally know a single other Gen Xer that is awake. They are all focused on their careers and sports and still listen to MSM. I do think if they could wake the hell up, they could be a powerful force for change and leadership, especially the 50+ men. Looks like it's gonna be painful for them though.
Same here. Sample pool is roughly half Libs, half centrists/GOPers. Sadly even the latter-day Reaganites in their late 40s/early 50s are utterly stuck in the suburban rat race mentality. HS Prom. Getting Billy or Mary to the good college (with crushing debt). Redoing the kitchen. Posting pics of the recent Cancun trip on FB. Etc, etc...
Part of me thinks that if they focus too long on the pandemic lockdowns and the Vaxx plan and the insane foreign policy and mass immigration and rising crime and social unrest, they will buckle mentally....so instead they are consciously doubling down on keeping up with the Joneses and life pre-2020 to the best they can.
If there is one silver-lining, if you can even call it that, it is the slow creep of "something unsettling" happening to the economy with every trip to the grocery store and gas station. That they talk about. Not in a scared way. But more in a "I see it" way. Many don't want to show or admit they are actually struggling (b/c it flies in the face of that they are not, in fact, keeping up with the Joneses) and this would be a tacit admission they may be f*****.