When I quit my job as Graphic Department Manager, I told the woman I had hired and trained, and my likely replacement how much I was paid as I left the building.
She didn't say "boomers", fucking Fortune added that. And they reported this specifically to stir the bogus generational conflict.
AOC should not have mentioned generations at all, she's supposed to be uniting us against the billionaire class, and here she is quoted in a billionaire rag about this. I hope she does better, and soon.
And, yet we're all in the same shit. Stop pointing fingers at your class, and focus on the true enemy in our midst. Tear down the walls the billionaires have erected among us.
Fortunately, we're not alone. We're all in this together, it's a class war. We need to stop framing it as a generational war, and build bridges between the generations not shore up the walls the billionaires have built.
True to form, people still framing the class war as a generational war.
Entire generations are not in power, only a few corrupt examples of them. All we've done, all we've ever done, is vote for the "lesser of two evils". That's how we got here. We were all duped, and are still being duped, as the voting record will show.
So, she didn't say "boomer". But she did frame it as a generational issue.
It really has nothing to do with age. In fact that's backwards. It's about people who have been in power too long, and are coincidentally old. They aren't corrupt because they're old, they're corrupt because they're in power, and they're old because they've been in power a long time. Too long. Bernie is rare because he's avoided becoming corrupt, his age is coincidental.
We need term limits for Congress. That won't stop the corruption but it will mitigate the damage they can do, and help prevent them from becoming entrenched and forming damaging long-term alliances with other corrupt politicians and billionaires.
You might say, "voting is the term limit", but voters are notoriously terrible at spotting corruption, and of course, the politicians do everything they can to hide it.
When I quit my job as Graphic Department Manager, I told the woman I had hired and trained, and my likely replacement how much I was paid as I left the building.