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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 the PP.  In my wider circle, I have college-educated acquaintances who voted for Trump.  And they're not all male.  Several are very successful, even by DCUM standards.  It blows my mind.  [/quote]

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