

I’m referencing Marjorie Taylor Greene. https://people.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-says-maga-was-all-lie-and-claims-trump-is-only-serving-big-big-donors-11898049
Not a phrase I thought I’d ever say but it rings that much louder when it’s someone who was part of this whole taking advantage.
But it’s also not a comment I make unthinkingly, let’s look at the voting intention tracker in the UK:
https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/trackers/voting-intention
If you select ages 18-24, the Green party (actual leftwing party) is in the lead the far-right party (Reform) is far behind. If you select ages 25-49, then Labour is in the lead, they are just average run of the mill conservatives.
So everyone between the ages of 18-49, that’s a span of 32 years is at least in more or less agreement that we should not have the far-right in government.
Now let’s take a look at 50-64 A majority by a large margin are voting for Reform UK. This also tracks for 65+ by an even larger margin.
No other category demonstrates a split like this, not by class, not by sex, not by social grade, not by anything - age is the only predictor that is this reliable and obvious.
So yes, statistically speaking boomers are brainwashed. Or if you think voting for the far-right doesn’t mean they are brainwashed, then that’s fine, I’m also willing to accept that they are fully cognizant of what they are doing, but that would mean that they are just plain evil
Young people are suffering everywhere at the hands of a gerontocratic tyranny they practically institute serfdom by already taking everything they have via rent. It needs to end and it needs to end soon.






There’s also faithless electors and gerrymandering. And losing car keys through sewer grates. Phones too. Oh and human rights and friends as well. Flushed away like dreams of grandeur and pretense of grace after a hearty night out.
There’s rejection too, that feeling when what you think or hope the other person feels comes crashing into the hard wall of reality, they felt nothing like it, you were misled by your own instincts, or another for reasons you’ll never know. You’ll never understand this ‘another’. The distance between souls is one you will never cross, and betrayal is always at hand.
Oh the humanity! Is there anything other than misery?
But in the end, there are a few moments that make it all worthwhile.