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Silents
 
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Boomers
 
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Gen X
 
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Milliennials
 
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Gen Z
 
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« on: March 24, 2021, 11:37:23 AM »

I think Gen X overtook Boomers sometime in the 2010's. Trump/Biden might be boomers, but their advisors and funders are generally Gen X.
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« Reply #1 on: March 24, 2021, 01:10:06 PM »


Biden is Silent Generation, not a Boomer.
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« Reply #2 on: March 24, 2021, 02:42:13 PM »

Still the Boomers.


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Beyond pure numbers, you've got important people like Schumer and Manchin who are Boomers. Other leadership members (Pelosi, Clyburn, Hoyer and Mitch McConnell) are Silents. Maybe once McCarthy and Scalise (both Gen Xers, barely) are in charge maybe there'll be a good argument that Boomers have lost the crown. But not yet.
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« Reply #3 on: March 31, 2021, 02:15:06 AM »

Obviously Gen Z. All other generations live in constant fear that our powerful gay BIPOC warriors will cancel them.
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« Reply #4 on: March 31, 2021, 02:19:45 AM »

Boomers obviously, but it's ironic that after 28 years of Boomers, the Presidency went to an older generation.
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« Reply #5 on: March 31, 2021, 10:49:39 AM »

This is not a useful way to think about power. The fixation on "boomers" is the same "f-you dad" angst that fueled the 60s counterculture.
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« Reply #6 on: April 12, 2021, 11:32:34 PM »

This is not a useful way to think about power. The fixation on "boomers" is the same "f-you dad" angst that fueled the 60s counterculture.
The 60s counterculture has been vindicated on every issue.
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« Reply #7 on: April 13, 2021, 03:18:00 PM »

Boomers as they have much higher turnouts than millennials despite being smaller in #'s and generally seem more active in party politics.  Millennials care just as much about politics, but I find are more issue driven than party driven whereas older generations tend to often be more party driven than issue driven.  Otherwise always vote for a certain party not matter what whereas younger generations tend to vote for which party is closest to their views on issues.
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« Reply #8 on: April 14, 2021, 11:47:30 AM »

This is not a useful way to think about power. The fixation on "boomers" is the same "f-you dad" angst that fueled the 60s counterculture.
The 60s counterculture has been vindicated on every issue.

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« Reply #9 on: April 14, 2021, 12:00:04 PM »

Boomers as they have much higher turnouts than millennials despite being smaller in #'s and generally seem more active in party politics.  Millennials care just as much about politics, but I find are more issue driven than party driven whereas older generations tend to often be more party driven than issue driven.  Otherwise always vote for a certain party not matter what whereas younger generations tend to vote for which party is closest to their views on issues.

Politically active Americans are subculture-driven at any age. Younger people's political subcultures have less to do with party because mass-mobilizing political parties are institutional structures and younger Americans often have next to no meaningful social capital, sometimes even no interest in acquiring any.
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« Reply #10 on: April 14, 2021, 01:27:24 PM »
« Edited: April 14, 2021, 01:31:46 PM by Del Tachi »

Boomers obviously, but it's ironic that after 28 years of Boomers, the Presidency went to an older generation.


Someone born in 1942, like Biden, is much more of a "cultural Boomer" than the Gen Jones'ing Barack Obama.  Clinton, Dubya, Trump and Biden were all born in a 4 year period between 1942-1946, so they have in common the experience of coming-of-age in the most turbulent years of the 1960s.

Obama, in contrast, barely remembers the 1960s and began his career as an '80s yuppie.  That's a different cultural planet.  If anyone is the odd man out in this case, it's Obama rather than Biden.

Anyway, our popular conceptions of "generations" are too long.  Someone born in 1945 has nothing in common with someone born in 1964 even though, by some definitions, they are both "Baby Boomers."  I suggest we update the American generational chronology as follows:

G.I. Generation:  1915 to 1924
Silent Generation:  1925 to 1936
War Babies:  1937 to 1945
Baby Boomers:  1945 to 1953
Generation Jones:  1954 to 1964
Generation X:  1965 to 1976
Generation Y:  1977 to 1985
Millennials:  1986 to 1996
Homelanders:  1997 to 2005?
Zoomers:  2005 to 2015-ish?

If you notice each of these cohorts is about 10 years, which I think makes a lot more sense when we already tend to think about pop culture/events/politics on a decadal scale.  
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« Reply #11 on: April 15, 2021, 10:27:41 PM »

Boomers obviously, but it's ironic that after 28 years of Boomers, the Presidency went to an older generation.


Someone born in 1942, like Biden, is much more of a "cultural Boomer" than the Gen Jones'ing Barack Obama.  Clinton, Dubya, Trump and Biden were all born in a 4 year period between 1942-1946, so they have in common the experience of coming-of-age in the most turbulent years of the 1960s.

Obama, in contrast, barely remembers the 1960s and began his career as an '80s yuppie.  That's a different cultural planet.  If anyone is the odd man out in this case, it's Obama rather than Biden.

Anyway, our popular conceptions of "generations" are too long.  Someone born in 1945 has nothing in common with someone born in 1964 even though, by some definitions, they are both "Baby Boomers."  I suggest we update the American generational chronology as follows:

G.I. Generation:  1915 to 1924
Silent Generation:  1925 to 1936
War Babies:  1937 to 1945
Baby Boomers:  1945 to 1953
Generation Jones:  1954 to 1964
Generation X:  1965 to 1976
Generation Y:  1977 to 1985
Millennials:  1986 to 1996
Homelanders:  1997 to 2005?
Zoomers:  2005 to 2015-ish?

If you notice each of these cohorts is about 10 years, which I think makes a lot more sense when we already tend to think about pop culture/events/politics on a decadal scale.  
Not a bad idea honestly, but I am curious where you are getting the names from. Where does Jones and Homelanders come from?
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« Reply #12 on: April 16, 2021, 12:34:34 AM »

Boomers obviously, but it's ironic that after 28 years of Boomers, the Presidency went to an older generation.


Someone born in 1942, like Biden, is much more of a "cultural Boomer" than the Gen Jones'ing Barack Obama.  Clinton, Dubya, Trump and Biden were all born in a 4 year period between 1942-1946, so they have in common the experience of coming-of-age in the most turbulent years of the 1960s.

Obama, in contrast, barely remembers the 1960s and began his career as an '80s yuppie.  That's a different cultural planet.  If anyone is the odd man out in this case, it's Obama rather than Biden.

Anyway, our popular conceptions of "generations" are too long.  Someone born in 1945 has nothing in common with someone born in 1964 even though, by some definitions, they are both "Baby Boomers."  I suggest we update the American generational chronology as follows:

G.I. Generation:  1915 to 1924
Silent Generation:  1925 to 1936
War Babies:  1937 to 1945
Baby Boomers:  1945 to 1953
Generation Jones:  1954 to 1964
Generation X:  1965 to 1976
Generation Y:  1977 to 1985
Millennials:  1986 to 1996
Homelanders:  1997 to 2005?
Zoomers:  2005 to 2015-ish?

If you notice each of these cohorts is about 10 years, which I think makes a lot more sense when we already tend to think about pop culture/events/politics on a decadal scale.   
"Generation Jones" has been around for a while; the name implies a "keeping up with the Joneses" sense of competitiveness and materialistic "jonesing" that is perfect for the yuppies of the 1980s

Homelanders get the name because their 2000s childhoods were largely defined by 9/11 and the global War on Terror (i.e., "Homeland Security"); I believe this was one of the initial names thought-up by Neil Howe and William Strauss to refer the post-Millennial generation
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« Reply #13 on: April 20, 2021, 12:55:22 AM »

Boomers (largest voting bloc, and most represented in positions of power across society), then Millennials (actually the biggest generation)
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