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%).
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.