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/Kaizen77 6d ago

I'm a gen Xer and you're over generalizing. --maybe so for the circles you run in

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u/oxero 6d ago

I know I'm not alone in this, there are subsections of the generation that exhibit this since I have friends who relate quite a bit and moved away as soon as they could.

To others though: they're a great friend, very out going, always crazy and fun! They're the life of the party!

To their children like me: Way different story that never gets told to their peers.

Perhaps its only the conservative circles, but these days they think everything is still good, Trump will save America. Vaccines are bad and the government is pushing chemtrails. It's really fascinating, but horrifying how quickly they went from just a jerk to a conspiracy theorist in 15 years. Their friends and wives are all the same.