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“Boomers should hurry up and die off so the kids can fix all their problems”

I was recently commiserating with my wonderful, intelligent, and insightful Boomer parents about the awful partisan filth that's recently been spewing from the SCOTUS. It's amazing how our country caters to the for-profit whims of the corporate elite. To make matters worse, most of my parent's Boomer friends are Trumpers and are cheering as our nation-sized dumpster fire rages and takes down the rest of the world with it. My sweet, compassionate mother's proposed resolution was that the Boomers all needed to hurry up and die so their kids could rush in and fix everything. That's it. Most of her generation has already made up their mind and nothing's going to change it, so they just needed to die off. I didn't disagree with her, but I'm worried that it will already be too late by the time that happens. Also, I want my parents to see us making the…


I was recently commiserating with my wonderful, intelligent, and insightful Boomer parents about the awful partisan filth that's recently been spewing from the SCOTUS. It's amazing how our country caters to the for-profit whims of the corporate elite. To make matters worse, most of my parent's Boomer friends are Trumpers and are cheering as our nation-sized dumpster fire rages and takes down the rest of the world with it.

My sweet, compassionate mother's proposed resolution was that the Boomers all needed to hurry up and die so their kids could rush in and fix everything. That's it. Most of her generation has already made up their mind and nothing's going to change it, so they just needed to die off.

I didn't disagree with her, but I'm worried that it will already be too late by the time that happens. Also, I want my parents to see us making the world better before they go.

What can we do to fix our country now?

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