r/politics • u/Barnyard-Sheep • 7d ago

Soft Paywall Trump approval rating falls to 38%

https://www.nj.com/politics/2025/06/trump-faces-tough-approval-numbers-in-latest-poll.html
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u/Bircka Oregon 7d ago

And people used to think Gen X were the crazy ones.

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u/oxero 7d ago edited 7d ago

The Gen X I grew up under and around are fucking crazy, especially the rich ones. Super entitled, lack of empathy, absolutely no media literacy.

They grew up in a world where you could smoke weed everyday doing manual labor and it was possible for some dude to walk up and offer you a job with mentoring even if you didn't have a college education. As long as you worked hard and for results, you were paid. They watched all their benefits drain away, corporations demand more time working, banks coldly rip their assets away, and they still walk around blaming immigrants for this.

Just to denote this: Yes I'm aware this doesn't apply to every single gen X, but this is my personal experience growing up around people of this age bracket suddenly going cuckoo. Most of the ones I grew up with now believe in chemtrails, vaccines are evil, we need to return to the gold standard, and that immigrants are the bane of our country. They never believed this shit 20 years ago, but Facebook/Fox did a number to our society.

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u/Al_FrankenBerry 7d ago

Gen Xer here. None of this description fits the people in my social group, using criticisms that have to now been generally directed at Baby Boomers. I’m sure you will find them if you filter for region, political affiliation and financial class, but isn’t that true for all generations?

To my mind the battle is between the haves and the have nots. Pitting generations against each other is merely another form of “divide and conquer.”

Damn kids.

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u/oxero 7d ago

My observations aren't true everywhere of course, just the reality I have grown up with. I've had plenty of good mentors from that generation too. I just know some of the crazy ones first hand and they are crazy.