340
And yet they'll all still vote Republican.
A majority of Democratic voters (57%) were ages 50 and older in the 2022 midterms, compared with 51% of Joe Biden’s voters in 2020 and 53% of voters who supported a Democratic House candidate in 2018. Just 14% of Democratic voters were under the age of 30 in 2022 — similar to the 15% of Democratic voters who were in this age group in 2018, but less than their share of Democratic voters in 2020 (17%).
Seven-in-ten Republican voters were 50 and older in the most recent election, compared with 62% of Republican voters in 2020 and 68% in 2018.
All that proves is that old people vote more than young people. Not that a majority of old people vote Democrat.
It also proves that not all older people vote Republicans
If you've ever been to St Charles, you'll understand why I said what I said.
Those are people who actually voted in the off-year election, not people whos view or registration. https://www.statista.com/statistics/319068/party-identification-in-the-united-states-by-generation/ shows that those in Gen x and above (43 year old an above) Republicans have a ~10% margin over Democrats. Even Pew agrees that Party or Leans-Party favors Republicans in the over 50 group by roughly the same margin https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2020/06/02/the-changing-composition-of-the-electorate-and-partisan-coalitions/
load more comments
(2 replies)
thats because 50 is past the middway point for the Xers. If you look at the 65+ band republicans increased over democrats 20 to 22.
Illinois has been voting blue since 1992, the current president is a Democrat, what does this have to do with republicans?
Hahahahahhahahah. Another person that doesn't realize that Chicago votes blue, but almost of the rest of the state is a deep, deep red.
My representative is January 6's Mary "hitler is right" Miller.
load more comments
(3 replies)
load more comments
(1 replies)
Elderly people without family support are going to end up on the streets en masse because of things like this.
Euthanasia will be legalised and normalised sooner than we expwct
Already happening here in Canada!
This is already happening in Canada. Even though self assisted suicide is only for those already facing a terrible and unavoidable near death, we have multiple reports of medical staff recommending it for people who can be treated… which doesn’t magically get them on some death list, it just exposes the medical staff for being an apathetic idiot.
Doesn't get them on some death list YET. That kind of callous inhumanity ferments and grows in apathy.
That's entirely possible
Family Support
The Boomers can have exactly as much family support as they gave to those who came after.
"Your 17. Get the fuck out". "Now I'm poor and elderly, and it's your problem" ay lmao
load more comments
(1 replies)
"we're not being malicious, we're just pumping prices like everyone else regardless of humans. because profits."
"Everybody's doing it. In capitalism, you try to get the highest price you can for a product."
- Martin Shkreli
Who, if you don't remember, obtained the manufacturing license for the antiparasitic drug Daraprim and raised its price by 5,455% (from US$13.50 to $750 per pill).
Which he did not get in trouble for, it was unrelated.
He should've been shot on the spot for being defective.
Why y'all so bloodthirsty? These people might not be destitute but they're not billionaires. They planned for a retirement and got it, and now they're getting evicted. They're victims of a cruel system that hurts everyone. Capitalism won't even reward people who "play by the rules", whatever those are supposed to be. Nothing wrong with having empathy. The same boot is stepping on poor people too.
Maybe if people's grandparents with nice retirements are getting evicted somebody will give a shit.
load more comments
(7 replies)
Market rate, bitch, pay up or hit the streets. #trump #republican #deregulation #sarcasm
Landleeches gonna landleech
One of my old landlords did this to me after I reported them to the city for ignoring severe water damage for 2 months. The city sent a health inspector who took one look and said they had to fix it. Landlord showed up with his goon squad to intimidate me, then hit me with a 200% increase.
How are there not laws protecting these of most vulnerable people.
Sam Zell was doing the same shit in the '00s (and still is) and even in the same area https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2007-05-27-0705260052-story.html this one ended up with my grandmother losing her retirement plans she financing.
There's always scams and they often target those most vulnerable who can't fight back. You'd think there should be some protections or safety nets but gods of capitalism require blood sacrifices
I'm not sure if you read the article, or if your grandma was fabulously wealthy, but everyone involved here is rich as shit.
People like French paid a few hundred thousand dollars upfront to live in the community, then taxes, utilities, and a maintenance fee every month. In recent years, that maintenance fee has risen above $1,300.
"We thought that was outrageous," French said. "Little did we know what was coming."
What was coming was $6,150 a month, a more than 300% increase from new property owner, Jaybird Senior Living.
These are wealthy people who paid hundreds of thousands upfront to a place they still technically rent from. They can easily move, and they absolutely have the money to fight back.
Senior living is often fraught with bullshit but these people are just angry that their gated community got more expensive. They weren't priced out, they were annoyed.
Going by the first sentence of your link, these are two very different situations
The head of Illinois' mobile home owners association, Terry Nelson, is elated.
The homes in the article we're commenting on are quite different from mobile homes.
Same area, st Charles and Elgin are one town apart. It's been a while since I checked but I think $100k-200k would be the average house price in the area. I'm a little closer to the city than those burbs and tiny foreclosures that aren't even up to code can be 200k.
So yeah that might be rich compared to some areas but for this area it's not but all surprising.
This news are actually quite similar. You'll find in both people investing heavily, most of their retirement savings, to establish themselves and then the management company or property owner jacking up the rent to the point where people can no longer live there and have to abandon their investment/retirement fund. Not too complicated of a comparison really.
load more comments
(2 replies)
load more comments
(6 replies)
On the off chance I ever retire I am never going to a retirement community. I will either bother my remaining family with my care or just be found a month later during a wellness checkup, dead on my own kitchen floor after falling.
I don't trust these "communities". I don't trust any "community" that has a buy in.
My plan is to go to a South American country where I can get a living visa to live of the pennies I'll get from my Social Security checks in one of their elderly care facilities.
Plan for warm weather.
load more comments
(2 replies)
My 95 year old mom lives in an assisted living facility. She's in a 1 bed, 2 bath apt with a kitchen and living area. Her utilities and meals are paid for. Her rent is over $6k a month, and she's still fairly independent. She's in her right mind--no dementia at all. She can bathe and dress herself, get herself to the bathroom, get herself into and out of bed, can walk without assistance and handles her own meds.
Once she needs assistance with any of the above, her rent goes up by $1k a month.
She just got a complete health workup, and they gave her a life prediction of 10 years. (Her mom and aunts/uncles all lived to be at least 104.)
Luckily, my dad left her with a sizable amount of money and income from SS and some annuities, but if she does live 10 more years, those annuities will be depleted and so will her savings. She will not be able to afford to stay; SS will never cover her rent.
It keeps me up at night. We are already paying for half my MIL's assisted living. How will we ever afford to help both?
It's terrible to find yourself hoping your mom doesn't outlive her money.
States are different. I have a loved one who lives in a similar situation. A one bedroom apartment with only retired people but the rent is capped at ⅓ monthly income (savings don't count). We can treat our elderly with dignity. We just have to be willing to pay for it and vote for politicians who are willing to enact it. Children, elderly, people with special needs, etc. it frustrates me to no end how we'll just throw them aside so our taxes can be just a little bit lower.
Good and recent episode of freakonomics covers private equity firms
https://open.spotify.com/episode/12j1heah9A4FCTzdkH5OS8?si=CItpqhUWTOWjL80mX4wk-g
load more comments
(1 replies)
From lunch to happy hour, neighbors in the western suburbs love nay excuse to be social, but one group of best friends is breaking up.
If they can't bother to copy edit their lede paragraph, I'm not reading the article.
load more comments
(1 replies)
view more: next ›
this post was submitted on 22 Nov 2023
340 points (100.0% liked)
News
22896 readers
3724 users here now
Welcome to the News community!
Rules:
1. Be civil
Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.
Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. We have an actively updated blocklist, which you can see here: https://lemmy.world/post/2246130 if you feel like any website is missing, contact the mods. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.
Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.
5. Only recent news is allowed.
Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.
6. All posts must be news articles.
No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.
7. No duplicate posts.
If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.
8. Misinformation is prohibited.
Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.
9. No link shorteners.
The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.
10. Don't copy entire article in your post body
For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS