Opinion: Millennials Want To Overhaul America, But Boomers Are Still In Charge
Aspiring presidential candidates are picking their sides in the great Boomer vs. millennial war. “The Boomer generation needed just 306 hours of minimum wage work to pay for four years of public college,”in April, compared to almost 4,500 hours for millennials. “The economy today is rigged against working people and young people.”
The two politicians, each in their mid-70s, have embraced different generational bases: it’s clear in the quote above who the “we” is that Biden aligns with, and just as clear from where Bernie Sanders draws his most passionate supporters. As these two candidates stay far ahead of the Democratic pack, the primary will continue to double as a kind of proxy war in a larger generational battle.
But the appetite for this kind of discourse reflects the unavoidable reality of a growing generational divide — one that is already central to US politics, and will grow even more so for the foreseeable future. Young people imagining a fundamental overhaul of America will first need to come to terms with the political power that boomer Democrats will retain for at least the next decade — and probably longer.Boomers have dominated national politics for a long time.
This can be explained in fairly straightforward terms: In a US-style democracy, the number of people in a group is a big part of its electoral power, but only if they actually turn out to vote. There are roughly equal numbers of millennials and boomers, but turnout isAs boomers continue to age, their share of voters who actually show up may become even more skewed. According to some projections, an astonishingpeople over 65.
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