I'm among the older GenX (also know as the "forgotten generation" in the culture wars lol!)
Angry does describe a lot of it. However- I am ALSO angry at my bodily autonomy and those of my daughters being taken away regarding basic medical care (abortion among them). I am also angry that suddenly trans people are being attacked for existing (we can debate whether true "conversion therapy" is happening too early-I suspect like everything else this is way way way blown up by media). I am afraid for my "adopted" kid (he basically adopted US during his teens when his fundamentalist christian parents decided they didn't agree with "lifestyle choices"-like anyone "chooses" to be heterosexual??) with years of agony, therapy before starting transition as an adult-and I've never seen him happier. I'm angry that people who were reasonable on covid are now 100% hypocrites on everything else and tribal politics are now blinding them (something they accused the "other" of doing with covid-uh HELLO king desantis!)
Yes covid brought out the worst of authoritarians in democrats-do NOT fool yourself into thinking the current crop of republicans are any saving angels!! They only took advantage of the "opposite' position and you'd better bet that if dems had been actually following science, kept schools open and fought teachers union, masking etc then republicans would have found some way to "oppose' that. It is naive and foolish to think otherwise.
We need independent 3rd party that represents those of us who have ALWAYS been in the middle while the ENDS keep moving further apart. Unfortunately our current autocratic crony "democracy" doesn't allow for that.
just turned 50 at the beginning of this year, putting me smack in the middle of the Gen X timeline.
I'm angry at the government, but have been since high school, so that's no change.
spent my grade school years substituting words in the "pledge of allegiance" (to the Corporation, for which it stands, one nation, under money, with liberty and justice for the rich,) and playing "duck and cover" under desks during earthquake and missile drills.
watched as Reaganomics destroyed the economy and his/fraudci's "childhood vaccine act" snowballed the number of injections required for school once the pHarmaCo liability for injuries was removed.
saw Ronnie RayGun, Slick Willie, Bush "CIA" Sr, Bush the Lesser, Obummer, Trump, and Joe Brandon all sign off on surveillance and attacks against not only other sovereign governments, but also our own citizenry.
observed the rise of electronic voting machines corresponding with increasing amounts of apparent (and unaddressed) election fraud, with public pre-vote-count statements like "Jeb ASSURES me we have Florida" and personally watched candidate vote counts in the 2016 and later primaries/elections going /down/ by thousands at a time in live stream "results."
saw the supposed "liberal and progressive" Blue Hat wing of the Uniparty drop all pretense to bodily autonomy (except abortion) based on a fraudulent State of Emergency for a type of virus that has never in history been either eradicated OR successfully vaccinated against.
it's no wonder I'm angry. there's no kosher in-bounds methods to get the (s)elected "representatives" in check, much less the extremely powerful appointed heads of state agencies with their unaccountable powers.
I'm among the older GenX (also know as the "forgotten generation" in the culture wars lol!)
Angry does describe a lot of it. However- I am ALSO angry at my bodily autonomy and those of my daughters being taken away regarding basic medical care (abortion among them). I am also angry that suddenly trans people are being attacked for existing (we can debate whether true "conversion therapy" is happening too early-I suspect like everything else this is way way way blown up by media). I am afraid for my "adopted" kid (he basically adopted US during his teens when his fundamentalist christian parents decided they didn't agree with "lifestyle choices"-like anyone "chooses" to be heterosexual??) with years of agony, therapy before starting transition as an adult-and I've never seen him happier. I'm angry that people who were reasonable on covid are now 100% hypocrites on everything else and tribal politics are now blinding them (something they accused the "other" of doing with covid-uh HELLO king desantis!)
Yes covid brought out the worst of authoritarians in democrats-do NOT fool yourself into thinking the current crop of republicans are any saving angels!! They only took advantage of the "opposite' position and you'd better bet that if dems had been actually following science, kept schools open and fought teachers union, masking etc then republicans would have found some way to "oppose' that. It is naive and foolish to think otherwise.
We need independent 3rd party that represents those of us who have ALWAYS been in the middle while the ENDS keep moving further apart. Unfortunately our current autocratic crony "democracy" doesn't allow for that.
just turned 50 at the beginning of this year, putting me smack in the middle of the Gen X timeline.
I'm angry at the government, but have been since high school, so that's no change.
spent my grade school years substituting words in the "pledge of allegiance" (to the Corporation, for which it stands, one nation, under money, with liberty and justice for the rich,) and playing "duck and cover" under desks during earthquake and missile drills.
watched as Reaganomics destroyed the economy and his/fraudci's "childhood vaccine act" snowballed the number of injections required for school once the pHarmaCo liability for injuries was removed.
saw Ronnie RayGun, Slick Willie, Bush "CIA" Sr, Bush the Lesser, Obummer, Trump, and Joe Brandon all sign off on surveillance and attacks against not only other sovereign governments, but also our own citizenry.
observed the rise of electronic voting machines corresponding with increasing amounts of apparent (and unaddressed) election fraud, with public pre-vote-count statements like "Jeb ASSURES me we have Florida" and personally watched candidate vote counts in the 2016 and later primaries/elections going /down/ by thousands at a time in live stream "results."
saw the supposed "liberal and progressive" Blue Hat wing of the Uniparty drop all pretense to bodily autonomy (except abortion) based on a fraudulent State of Emergency for a type of virus that has never in history been either eradicated OR successfully vaccinated against.
it's no wonder I'm angry. there's no kosher in-bounds methods to get the (s)elected "representatives" in check, much less the extremely powerful appointed heads of state agencies with their unaccountable powers.
Erica Jong and her “ZF quest” was onto something. 🦄
Very insightful reflection.