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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not that one but this one:   https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/opinion/gen-x.html?unlocked_article_code=1.fE8.UMA6.No0Xj6Q9Rmjp&smid=url-share
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This article is so true but so flipping depressing.  [/quote]

"The inability to accept this may explain why so many Gen X-ers voted for Donald Trump. If they view him as anti-establishment, he validates their need to feel that they’re being subversive. If you see a post that used generative A.I. to make Mr. Trump look like a U.F.C. fighter or Rambo, I’ll bet you a bottle of Boone’s Farm Strawberry Hill that it was made by a Gen X-er. Mr. Trump is more Beavis or Butt-Head than John Kennedy or Franklin Roosevelt, and that appeals in the sense that he annoys the responsible grown-ups, which X-ers have loved doing since “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” And mostly, he gives them a story that says: Yes, you were lied to, and that’s why your life sucks, dude."

This line of thought is so completely alien to me (GenX born in 1972) that when I see that crap, I assume it's Boomers who can't tell AI from real photos. I guess I do see it with a few GenX acquaintances who went full MAGA. I don't see it among my actual friends who are much more the stereotypical hyper-competent and responsible type who are always the clean up crew and get stuff done.[/quote]

GenX voted for Trump? I assume they mean non college educated— because that’s the real divide.  [/quote]

I’m uneducated Gen x. Blue collar. Definitely did not vote for T. Cannot even write his name. He’s a stain.

The only folks I know in my generation that voted for him were ones that came from wealthy Republican families to begin with. Or sadly the opposite very poor republicans who wanted to keep their guns for hunting. They voted for guns instead of the medical card they cannot afford. [/quote]

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