I give a fuck; I just find it funny that people think the way society changes is voting for the right pre-selected candidate from two stale political parties.

This thread has a lot of people blaming Boomers for everything. In 1968, 47% of people under 30 voted for Humphrey, and only 38% voted for Nixon. Participation rates of Boomers and Millennials appear to be about the same.

What is going to be funny is seeing what the kids of Millennials make of them.

This intergenerational sniping may not be something powerful people fomented with some sort of conspiracy, but it benefits them. Further dividing generations against each other just increases division and people voting only for their own selfish interests. It is easy to vote against people you don't like.

It is like Boomers forgot they were young and sometimes goofy once (they are fortunate enough not to have had cell phones everywhere to record it, but we can see some of their asshattery in the Woodstock movie, in particular with the two idiots giving their child LSD).

Millennials sometimes forget that they will one day grow old and want to retire and will require financial conditions - possibly help - to do so.

As for Millennials, my personal experience with them is a whole lot of them seem like douchebags online, yet I can't think of one I've met - and I've met many - who I've disliked. All the Millennials I've met have been fairly well adjusted, thoughtful, and not in any way entitled (I mention this because that's the stereotype).

I wonder how many of us in GenX were douchebags, had we especially grown up in our teen years with the Internet. As with Boomers, we escaped having everything recorded online, as well as whatever effects online feedback loops have on people.

I've liked a lot of Boomers. Boomers were my teachers; they were good to me.

I am not surprised that whole generations blame whole other generations, but I am surprised the degree to which it happens, and the apparent comfort people have doing that.

I have less to say on GenX. My personal experience is people partied fairly hard, a minority were assholes who created problems for themselves and others, but most of us went on to graduate and get jobs.

I get on with everyone. I have questions to ask people of different ages and they have stories to tell. Millennials definitely have their own unique set of bullshit - I don't want to overstate the similarities to other generations, but so to do Boomers.

As Xers, we've escaped a lot, but I think this is the quiet second act. I think people are going to say we were alright, or kind of bastards, depending on what we do in the third.

To Millennials I would say just this: I have voted against my interests and my own political position for the last four elections, under the theory that the candidates I voted for (Kerry / Obama / Obama / Clinton) would do some good to help you guys with student debt and the like. I don't want a medal, but I am a libertarian and I am a gun owner, and I have committed to the fact that the world is complex and while I'm willing to live with inequality, I think there's a limit to my tolerance of that.

I know that Millennials got pushed into college (and debt) by their parents. A lot of them are getting blamed for doing what their elders told them to do and was important. I'm tired of seeing that.

I would warn that the current polarization and the "I hate you because your politics differ from mine" is going to result in everyone losing. We will never all agree on one candidate, but we should be voting positively for politicians we support or can at least live with (I am realistic), not just because we hate the other side.

And I really think Trump got elected because a lot of people hated the other side.

That other side is now giving Trump voters more and more reason to vote against them again in the next election.