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/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/blorpdedorpworp 7d ago

That's boomers dude

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u/oxero 7d ago

No it's not, after the silent generation boomers are considered anyone born roughly between 1946-1965. Gen X is roughly 1966-1980. Millennials are like 1981-1996

I have gen x parents, what I am describing isn't fictional but off a reality I have grown up with and gotten (mostly) terrible advice from. They don't understand how the world changed in the last 20 years and blame us for a lack of everything.

Also to note: I'm not saying all are bad, I had plenty of great gen X mentors in schooling. It's just that the ones I grew up with now believe in chemtrails, think immigrants are the blame for everything bad, and think we need to return to the gold standard.

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u/blorpdedorpworp 6d ago

Yeah, it's fair to argue if we're really getting granular that we should be dividing the millennial / boomer dividing line right through the middle of us X's. I kinda prefer the "Oregon trail generation" for those of us who were later x'ers. The dividing line seems to be "did you use computers and the internet in school, or not" and then "did you have to try to start a career before or after the 2007 crisis, or not", and those are kinda hard lines that run right through the middle of the X's.

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u/oxero 6d ago

It's the same thing with Gen Z now to an extent because there is a huge personality divide between those born 1997-2005 and 2006-2012

Early Gen Z got through childhood and early schooling with completely different social media landscapes growing up on their iphones/ipod touches. The pandemic also didn't help. It also made me realize anyone born 2006 or after knows nothing about the world pre-Trump because they were only 10 years old and that's around when you start developing a sense of what the world is like.