By generation, Biden has the highest disapproval rating from Generation X (62%), compared with the Silent/Greatest Generation (48%), baby boomers (48%) and Generation Z/millennials (50%). Biden also has the highest “strongly disapprove” rating from Gen X (52%), compared with the Silent/Greatest Generation (41%), boomers (39%) and Gen Z/millennials (35%).
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At 54, Schoettle is squarely a member of Generation X — those born between roughly 1965 and 1980. That political memory alone helps explain why they tilt more conservative than members of other generations. Schoettle has voted for a Democrat for president just once: Barack Obama in 2008.
Because Obama campaigned as progressive, and that’s what voters want.
The issue is after Obama, Hillary and Biden tried the same thing. Swore up and down that they were super progressive and they’d fix stuff if we gave them the chance.
Obama got the benefit of the doubt because no one knew him. But it’s harder to trick voters when the candidate has been unapologetically neoliberal for decades.
But the party won’t let an actual progressive make it to the general these days.
They’d rather have trump for four years so they can run a neoliberal as “at least they’re not trump”.
Yes! I would love to vote for anyone from any party, who has done one thing that transfers wealth from the shareholder class to the working class. For my entire life (born in 1980) every law I’ve ever heard of has done the opposite, and I’m sick of it.
Same here b.79. I want AOC or a younger Bernie to appear in the race. At the very least Biden could pick a progressive VP for this term and fucking retire already. Because there’s no way trump can bring us anything good.
Democrats try not to completely alienate progressives challenge (very hard)
What in the deliberate propaganda
“I have a distinct memory of when Carter was in office and we had to wait in line for gas," Schoettle told NPR, in reference to the gas shortages that impacted the U.S. under Democratic President Jimmy Carter. “I feel the liberals just have always done this sort of thing and they love to word things as socially responsible and things like that, but they’re fiscally very irresponsible.”
To me it’s more telling that they have to go back 50 years, to a time most of today’s people weren’t yet born. But sure.
Source with data links and a lot more metrics
Also remember a couple years back when we had an R guy and like half a million people died? Yeah those gas lines two generations ago were pretty rough.
A million. A million people died.
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I’m Gen X, and I disapprove of much of what Biden has done (although I did vote for him – which STILL won’t stop some of y’all from accusing me of A vOtE fOr TrUmP). None of the people interviewed in this article represent my views or anyone else I know from Gen X. I’m an anarchist. My brother is a Dem Soc, and one of my best friends is a socialist.
I have no doubt there’s a problem with Republicanism in my generation. I grew up with these people, after all, and they were pretty shit-tier humans for the most part. My bullies grew up, and they’re just as worthless now as they were back then. But disapproval of Biden does NOT a Republican make. Many of us disapprove of him because he’s a fucking conservative upholding the genocidal and imperialist ideals of this fucked up nation. And doing a bang-up job of it too, considering one of his first acts was to open more concentration camps and then send his VP on a gaslighting mission to Latin America to lecture them about instability that we fucking caused.
I’m an elder gen-x. After decades of the bipartisan neoliberal ratchet effect, pulling the country ever-rightward to the benefit of the capitalist class and detriment of everyone else, and much investigation outside of corporate media, I’m a communist.
Very few gen-xers are ever going to escape capitalist realism. I’ve tried, but they’re quite ossified. Younger generations will have to be the mass of the vanguard.
Similar situation for me, though I’m on the mid to lower end. Pre-2000 I was still a liberal who believed we were on track to real progressive change and that if we’d just vote in the right candidates things would improve. It gradually became obvious that the same false hopes that kept being promised were never actually delivered and never could be by our current state or system.
I’m also solidly Gen X, and nothing in this article resonates with me.
Do I approve of Bidencs performance as President? It depends on what we’re talking about. Biden is who he’s always been, and he’s not doing anything that’s out of character for him. He’s doing fine on the economy and appears to have headed off the worst of the disasters. I never expected the college loan forgiveness actually to pan out, but I believe the attempt was well-intended and its more than any other President has tried to do yet-- not for me but for my kids. I felt he handled the situation in Ukraine very well, but is being equally ham-fisted with Israel and Gaza, again very on-brand for him. His handling of the Unions has been hit-and-miss, though. “Amtrak Joe” leaving the rail workers behind and embracing the UAW is a weird signal I don’t know what to make of.
I’m not sure I had much of a point in all this except to say this article fell flat with me and failed in any way to accurately represent what feels like an actual Gen X perspective, or at least one I’m apt to hear among my peers.
No, I don’t expect you to understand. It’s whatever.
His administration did continue pressure on the railroads though so they did end up getting their sick days:
https://www.ibew.org/media-center/Articles/23Daily/2306/230620_IBEWandPaid
Ah! Solid.
I’ll admit I did lose track of that one while it was happening and never followed up. Y’know… Life.
Thanks for the follow-up!
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Sorry to say, but that’s still me.
Look, it just wasn’t a great article. The Biden hate is overblown and the media is doing what the media always does during a slow news cycles. Take the L and maybe don’t contribute to culture wars we don’t need.
Have a good New Year, too.
Born in '69 and I’m a dem socialist. I don’t know anyone my age who isn’t left. I still have the fucking Bernie sticker on my car.
What a shit take. Just like everything ever written about Gen X, they get the motivation absolutely 100% wrong.
The article ascribes Gen X’s affinity for Republicans to the relative popularity of Reagan vs. Carter, but I wonder if it isn’t really the influence of Alex P. Keaton…
“I have a distinct memory of when Carter was in office and we had to wait in line for gas,” Schoettle told NPR, in reference to the gas shortages that impacted the U.S. under Democratic President Jimmy Carter."
Old enough to remember the gas lines from 1979 but not old enough to remember the gas lines from 1973/1974 under Nixon/Ford.
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Or conflating the two and blaming the Democrat, seems to happen to Republicans a lot:
https://www.npr.org/2016/08/16/490200895/rudy-giuliani-claims-no-terror-attacks-in-u-s-pre-obama
This is the best summary I could come up with:
For Gen X, that is largely defined by an unpopular Carter and a popular Republican president, Ronald Reagan.
“Ronald Reagan made me feel good about being a U.S. citizen, being American,” said Ken Piccolo, 56, a substitute teacher from San Jose, California.
But as of now, he says his Biden vote is driven by a disgust at the influence that former President Donald Trump has had over the Republican Party.
Walters added that Trump’s “Make America Great Again” messaging appeals to older voters, particularly boomers but also their Gen X children.
Culture wars are nothing new for Gen Xers — the generation that coined the term “political correctness” — but the current debate over when and how to police speech is particularly unpopular with them.
On the other hand, Gen X Democrats like Piccolo point their disgust at conservative efforts to curb speech, particularly in schools and libraries.
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