A Democratic group aimed at recruiting and supporting younger candidates for political office announced its first slate of endorsements. Leaders We Deserve — a group founded by March For Our Lives …

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    I mean, yeah, but it’s a good thing.

    We only fix this problem of overaged politicians by some generation “skipping their turn”.

    If Gen X doesn’t do it, then the problem stays around.

    I’d much rather have a competent future oriented government during my retirement than a bunch of (by that point) out of touch people because they waited for their turn.

    If “stepping aside” as a generation is what fixes, well, that’s what Gen X has been training for our whole lives. I don’t see why I shouldn’t vote for younger generations simply because I’m older than them.

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      Additionally, Gen X (in general, I’m aware there’s exceptions) is almost as conservative as Boomers. If we want progress as a society, we need progressive candidates in positions of power, and the intersection of “progressive” and “want to be a politician” is a much smaller pool outside of Millennials and Gen Z.

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        Not really

        https://www.statista.com/statistics/319068/party-identification-in-the-united-states-by-generation/

        5% less Republican and 11% more Dem is a pretty significant switch.

        Side note:

        I swear everytime I look something up by generation I see a different cutoff point.

        Not sure when 1980 became the start of millennial. They really need to make the “Oregon Trail Generation” official. We’re not the same as Gen X or millennials. Computers becoming prevalent is a better line in the sand than random birth years

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          Hey, I’m happy to be wrong. The latest numbers I saw a few months ago said differently, but it was talking about conservatism vs progressivism. I suppose you can be a social conservative and still vote for a Democrat.

          And while I acknowledge that Dems aren’t currently the progressives we need, they’re still far better than the alternative. If those numbers are representative, Gen X seems to at least partly recognize the imminent danger Republicans represent.

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            Yeah, like I said it’s weird and nonuniform how it’s broken up.

            That has 1965 as start date for Gen X. I wouldn’t think of someone almost 60 years old as a gen Xer. And during the 90s they were in their 30s.

            I feel like that’s skewing the political affiliation of Gen X.

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          Millennials are those that became adults on or relatively close to the turn of the century, hence the name. If you played Oregon Trail in school, that’s what you are. The next youngest is Gen-Z (Gen-X’s kids), with the birth year starting at 1995. After that comes Alpha, the children of the millennials (being a millennial myself, that feels strange to say now. We gettin’ old and sometimes I still don’t feel like a responsible “adult”. I still play video games at 41 for damn sakes. This shit’s gettin’ wierd.)

          There’s an approximately 15 year gap between the start of each generation.

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      As an Xer I agree. I have been that way at work to. I avoid management like a plague and wish for younger folk. Like a lot of things if I was going to do that crap I should have been able to start younger. Honestly I don’t want to deal with the stuff that came out of the generation before, I hope the next gen has the energy for it.