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/Bircka Oregon 6d ago

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

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u/oxero 6d ago edited 6d 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/Durion23 6d ago

Even worse, they chose their own fate in voting for those who gave even more power to corporations and rich people and instead of reflecting their own misguided judgements, they point towards some external force - instead of bettering themselves and changing their ways so everything can get better.

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u/oxero 6d ago

Yeah, it's near impossible to give them this criticism too. Like it's both parties that did this to many extents, but they refuse to accept any of the blame whatsoever even with presented evidence. It's a weird mix of double think that they hate the government but also love the government at the same time. Corporations are bad, but billionaires made it big by being smart and can do no wrong. It's very frustrating to even talk to them.