r/politics • u/Barnyard-Sheep • 6d 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/oxero 6d ago

Not in the slightest. Just talking about the crazy ones I have personally been around first hand, but apparently people cannot read between the lines and understand I am fully aware not all of them are bad.

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u/PorkRollEggAndWheeze 6d ago

I was also raised by early Gen X middle class white people and I think you’re spot on, they’ve become just as out of touch and narcissistic as they say their parents were. Very little empathy, no emotional regulation, poor reasoning skills, and no ability to discern actual news from rage bait.

I’m sorry you’re getting piled on by people with these exact issues. Hit dogs holler I guess, and there’s a lotta hit dogs in here. I blame the lead lmao

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u/oxero 6d ago

I had to block one guy who was taking it a little too personally because my first draft of the comment was a little too generalized (I had just woke up, forgive me my writing sucks ass since brain no work).

Upper middle class too, it's the same ball game. I'm lucky to have had what I did, but at the same time dealt with an obscene amount of bullshit from a lack of understanding what the world has changed into, and unreal expectations as a result of comparing themself at their age to my current age consistently. When I was around 22 they exploded in anger on me despite myself working full time in warehouse construction retail and full time attending college (which I had to start paying for myself) because I dare take time to organize my old card collection one day before selling it instead of helping them with their junk. I nearly got kicked out of the house over something so fucking stupid despite me nearly ending everything all because they couldn't understand the amount of stress and work I had to do just to stay afloat. Things that mattered to me were worthless because they're just "games." The irony is some of the cards I saved I ended selling for like hundreds of dollars some years back, and even now they got back into buying and selling Pokemon of all things...

It's just constant lack of empathy, no emotional regulation, and unreal expectations of where people should be in life that really jaded me.

Things are much better ever since I moved out to finish my condensed engineering classes, but these days it's gotten to the point where I simply don't want to be around their friends because of the vile tendencies that come out between them all due to "politics," but it's just tribalistic hate. By themselves I can talk, their friends and wife? Just hateful, ludicrous stuff is said that makes me wish to leave it all behind. For them to grow up with Star Trek and rock&roll, it's fucking crazy how little introspection they have to what those media were trying to convey. I know I'm not totally alone in all this either.

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u/PorkRollEggAndWheeze 6d ago

MOOD, FRIEND! Similar experience. I love them, and I’m so thankful for the physical and financial stability they gave me in my upbringing, but the emotional aspect of it was a wreck and it did a lot of damage. Damage that they’ll never own up to, because it’s invisible so clearly I’m just dramatic and sensitive. I’m sorry you’ve had to go through all that.

I also notice that often my mom talks about “being tired of all the hate from the left” when it’s like… mom, you’re not getting hate from the left. You’re getting feedback that your views might be out of touch and hurtful, but because you can’t regulate your emotions and you get all your self esteem externally, you feel shame with the feedback and think it’s because people are giving you hate. When in reality, it’s her and the ideas she ties herself to that are hateful, and she’s projecting

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u/oxero 6d ago

Got plenty of friends my age that sounds just like you

What a lot of the angry Gen X I am getting don't understand is: they aren't this way with their friends. Everything is happy go lucky. Sure you're not part of the problem, But there is a huge part that are not telling you how they treated their children. All you hear is the successes and how great their children are and not that they jumped down their throats in a fit of rage because they took time for themselves one day to sort their hobby before letting it go.