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As long as what you want is what the economic elites want, it happens.
The correlative factor between what the regular people want and what ends up happening is 0.05. elites are 0.78. business interests are 0.48
If you want to see change become an oligarch, and if not join a business lobbyist group. If you can't do either you're SOL.
It's not about age, it's about corruption. Old politicians have had more time to make deals, forge alliances, and prove themselves useful to money.
One way to mitigate this is term limits for Congress. Force them out before they can do too much damage, before they can entrench themselves, and gain the support of some billionaire. Less reason to throw millions at a candidate if they'll be gone in eight years.
No, the low IQ wing nuts who make up at least 50% of the population who allow people like Trump to become president. They literally ruin anything good we could have a society 😒
Money is, for sure.
They have you focused on old people so you are distracted from the fact that capitalism is the problem
To be fair most old people clutch their pearls when you say radical things like "capitalism is the problem"... so yeah. They've ruined a lot of shit.
Billionaires are ruining it. Don't let the NYT shift the blame.
The boomers that vote for far right grifters and are happy to pull up the ladder behind themselves certainly deserve a share of the blame too.
Nearly half of boomers have no retirement savings. Blame them all you want, but the problem is the rich. Always has been. Always will be.
Most boomers gleefully enabled the system.
Which part do you think was a lie? Half of all boomers being broke, or the rich being the problem?
Oh its rich people. And the overwhelming majority of them being boomers.
Who's voting in primaries for the kinds of politicians who refuse to take on billionaires?
Not all Republicans are old.
Yeah, there are several new generations of fascists ready to take over when the old ones die off, with exactly the same opinions and goals. It is not an age thing, it is a class thing, but oligarch mouthpieces love to spout this particular brand of obfuscation as part of their propaganda, because it seems to be really succesful strategy.
And not all old people are conservative.
This isn't an old person problem; this is an asshole problem.
Nah. It's capitalism and social engineering by the powers that be. That shit is divisive as fuck. The old will be dead soon enough, but that 1% at the top bullshit has gone on for a very long time already. Decades, generations.
Does NY Times want to distract us from having class solidarity?
Where are all these boomers with class solidarity? Show me.
It's been ruined for a long time, big money interests has always had a stranglehold on it. That tends to be older people sure but not all of them are beyond 30 either.
No war but class war, brother
Agreed. And Boomers picked the side of the capitalists.