r/GenXPolitics

>On Aug. 28, 2014, the tan suit that then-President Barack Obama wore to a White House press conference became an unexpected story as right-wing critics attacked Obama[....]

>Here’s the news: Obama gave the suit away cleaning out his closet.

>So, where is the suit?

>Follow Lynn Sweet, former Sun-Times Washington Bureau Chief, in her quest to find the original tan suit.

Truthfully?

After breaking for Trump all three times and basically collectively giving the finger to the Democrats ever since you've all been able to vote. A generation weaned on Reagan and his voodoo trickle-down economics and capitalism gone amok (which is how we've ended up with fat cats like Bezos and Musk).

You've always collectively leaned MAGA at worst, libertarian at best, which is pretty sad for the first generation to fully undergo racial integration in schools.

You've all always been obsessed with hating the idea of PC. Being able to be un-PC has always been a virtue and so it follows that you'd fall for a bankrupt conman who makes being loud, vulgar, and un-PC his entire persona.

And now you all want to have a president of your own? For what? What would a Gen X president even represent? You've all made your disdain for younger generations very loudly clear and so it's certainly not to help them. You all don't seem to want change. You seem to want just enough status quo to make it through retirement and fuck everybody else after you.

Need to stop choosing old guys and choose young person. From behind the scenes as it done. ⛓️

I really don't look at this politically, I don't think it's political at all. But the Gen X subreddit said it was, so here I am.

A response to the news of the hiring of thousands of gamers to train to be Air traffic controllers:

"BRILLIANT move to hire YOUNG MEN into stable, well-paying positions,” one person wrote. “As any nation should. Note that it took a Gen Xer to launch this program. A boomer would never.”

Sean Patrick Duffy (born October 3, 1971) Secretary of Transportation

To those of you that think the wealthy elderly are praying upon younger generations, what do you think should be done?

I propose the following:

Change how Social Security is collected and distributed. First part should be no Social Security tax until you make $40k, $80k, whatever is needed with no cap. Second part is means testing it like many credits, so the more you make, the less you receive.

The market value for keeping track of passwords, email, using Quicken, etc is so much higher than people realize. I doubt there's a Congressperson over 65 that knows how to do this and keep it straight.