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What Fox News is using to show how scary Socialism is for America
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My parents are boomers and they want these things. And most people in their circles are the same. So I really get annoyed when I see this sentiment online, especially on Lemmy where you’d think people would know better. A lot of MAGA support is coming from younger people. Why do you think that Kirk dickhead was at college campuses, not retirement homes. These are people who are not anti vax because they grew up with polio. They support unions because they have seen them work.
Eh, plenty of Boomers will say they want those things but then shoot down any attempts at them as "not the right way". These are the kinds of people who showed up to the Democratic primaries in 2020 and voted for Joe Biden. If they really wanted these things they'd vote in the primaries for politicians who are fighting for them.
Eh, plenty of younger people will say they want those things but then decide not to vote for the Democrat candidate who made it as the nominee because they didn't pass some purity test. And that hands power to the fascists.
I voted for Biden. And Clinton. And Harris. In the general election, because not doing so was a vote for fascism. I also voted for different people in the primaries because that was my chance to vote for a progressive.
To be clear, you're trying to deflect blame away from people who show up to the Democratic primaries to vote for strike blocking, genocide supporting geriatrics yes?
As with any generation, many of the people who were teens in the 60s did not like the depression- and war-torn, conformist, society they grew up in, They had much different values and music and politics and approaches to life. Yes ... today they'd be called democratic socialists, they showed up for Sanders' tour. They don't watch what Mideas Touch calls the 'Regime Media'. The Repubs are running scared about the midterms, for a good reason.
Thinking everyone in an earlier generation is to blame for anything today is wrong-headed and the result of just not knowing enough about history.