The hard part is watching everything that was pretty cool (not perfect, mind you) just fuck right on off. I’m certain there’s a PTSD carried by most Gen X’rs that have watched the degradation one catastrophe at a time juxtaposed to the relatively peaceful upbringing we had.
Sorry you had to deal with that at such a time. My two youngest were sophomore and senior during the COVID pandemic and I got to watch them navigate that scenario without having any wisdom to offer. Shitty hand to be dealt at what should be a positive and transformative moment in their lives.
Oldest sibling owns a house, I will die working while probably renting with roommates as my body fails me too much to do the employment that keeps me in solo housing. That gap of 12 years changed a lot…
Imagine having a dem president for 8 years without having the economy collapse right before.
Dems aren’t perfect. The 90s weren’t perfect. Wealth inequality was a problem then too. They could be significantly more progressive. I’d like to see us use our wealth and power for bigger things than the Dems have gone for since JFK.
But they’re so much fucking better than the Republicans, even the old 1990s Republicans. So much better.
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I was 29 on 9/11. It has been a shit show since.
The hard part is watching everything that was pretty cool (not perfect, mind you) just fuck right on off. I’m certain there’s a PTSD carried by most Gen X’rs that have watched the degradation one catastrophe at a time juxtaposed to the relatively peaceful upbringing we had.
Yeah I was a Junior in high school when it went down. The spark kind of went out over the next few years.
Sorry you had to deal with that at such a time. My two youngest were sophomore and senior during the COVID pandemic and I got to watch them navigate that scenario without having any wisdom to offer. Shitty hand to be dealt at what should be a positive and transformative moment in their lives.
Oldest sibling owns a house, I will die working while probably renting with roommates as my body fails me too much to do the employment that keeps me in solo housing. That gap of 12 years changed a lot…
Imagine having a dem president for 8 years without having the economy collapse right before.
Dems aren’t perfect. The 90s weren’t perfect. Wealth inequality was a problem then too. They could be significantly more progressive. I’d like to see us use our wealth and power for bigger things than the Dems have gone for since JFK.
But they’re so much fucking better than the Republicans, even the old 1990s Republicans. So much better.
Do some reading on Clinton, especially his crime bill and what he did to welfare. He undid a lot of FDR’s New Deal.
NAFTA was also pretty shit.