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    Year President Birth year
    1993 Bill Clinton 1946
    2001 George W. Bush 1946
    2009 Barack Obama 1961
    2017 Donald Trump 1946
    2021 Joe Biden 1942
    2026 Donald Trump 1946
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    It’s a class war.

    Generations and age have nothing to do with it.

    People get old as a matter of time, people stay in power as a matter of corruption.

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      Generations and age have nothing to do with it.

      On and individually level, sure…

      But boomers have been the largest voting demographic that whole time, as a demographic they have been voting for this.

      It is that generations fault.

      If you think that means “it’s everyone in that generation’s fault” then you just don’t understand what people are saying and responding belligerently.

      And are creating the problem you’re complaining about, distracting from the real issues.

      • The thing is, the percentage of boomers who voted Republican is only d slightly higher than the percentage who voted Democrat. And the percentage of younger voters who voted Democrat is only slightly higher than those who voted Republican. This narrative that boomers are all a bunch of right wing conservatives is bullshit.

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            A lot of people think that because of posts like this, but it’s not true. Here’s the results of an exit poll from the 2024 election, posted by the BBC:

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            65+ (boomers) were basically tied. 30-44 were one percent more for Harris.

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      It’s not a war. One side is oppressing the other, the other is stubbornly going along with it.

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      It’s an easy out blaming the previous generation.

      The 1% love the fact that we fight race, religion, age, etc, and not the real thing which is them.

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      Real. Just kinda misleading.

      George Bush was still president for 19 days in 2009. Donald Trump was still president for 19 days in 2021.

      At some point in all of those years you could in fact say that the president was born in 1946.