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As of 2021, out of 432 members in the house of congress, a scant 31 are millenials. In the senate, just 1. Millenials are -not- the ones responsible for disast

As of 2021, out of 432 members in the house of congress, a scant 31 are millenials. In the senate, just 1. Millenials are -not- the ones responsible for disastrous policies (yet). They haven't been around long enough yet. It's mainly boomers, some gen x, and a few silents. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/02/12/boomers-silents-still-have-most-seats-in-congress-though-number-of-millennials-gen-xers-is-up-slightly/ https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/02/12/boomers-sil... edit: Added "(yet)" because it's not obvious, I suppose. My point here is that the actual policymakers in congress, right now, are majority "not-millenials". So stop blaming millenials and/or gen-z when they're not the ones currently writing legislature...

rootusrootus 5y ago
Who is the largest single voting bloc? Edit: That struck a chord with millenials, ha! Tell your friends that bitching does not help, voting does. Boomers seem to understand this and so they have a disproportionate amount of influence. You want it to stop? VOTE.
- dragonwriter 5y ago
  Generations don't vote as blocks, but of the named generations the largest number of actual voters are Boomers, still. 2018 was the first election where Gen X and younger together outvoted Boomers and older.
- banana_maker 5y ago
  It's my understanding that millenials and gen-z make up 31% [0], as of -2020-. Boomers and older still make up 44%. So sure, go ahead and blame millenials and gen-z for policies made in 2020 and onward. 0: https://catalist.us/wh-national/ https://catalist.us/wh-national/
- blaser-waffle 5y ago
  > Edit: That struck a chord with millenials, ha! Tell your friends that bitching does not help, voting does. Boomers seem to understand this and so they have a disproportionate amount of influence. You want it to stop? VOTE. There is, still, a statistical bump in the boomers, hence the baby boom. There is just more of them, and they vote. They've only just started dying in big numbers. Plus the older voters get the more they tend to vote, for various reasons.
vlunkr 5y ago
So what you're saying is, millenials aren't responsible for disastrous policies yet. They'll get their turn.
- banana_maker 5y ago
  Correct. I've no doubt that the new generation will also make some terrible calls thanks to lobbying being legal. I believe the environment will be much more prioritized, but we'll have to see. However, I'm tired of silents/boomers/gen-xers making comments about and blaming millenials as if it's somehow our fault the boomers and silents in congress are out of touch. A quick look at voting demographics and the demographics of congress dispels that notion (for now, as of 2022).
  - ncr100 5y ago
    Good, be tired of it. The blame game is unhelpful unless a holistic explanation of Why Did You Do That is also given.
- ncr100 5y ago
  Absolutely. It's difficult to be omniscient about the impact of everything to everything else for all future outcomes. Smacks of Ageism, to my mind.

rootusrootus 5y ago

Who is the largest single voting bloc? Edit: That struck a chord with millenials, ha! Tell your friends that bitching does not help, voting does. Boomers seem to understand this and so they have a disproportionate amount of influence. You want it to stop? VOTE.

dragonwriter 5y ago
Generations don't vote as blocks, but of the named generations the largest number of actual voters are Boomers, still. 2018 was the first election where Gen X and younger together outvoted Boomers and older.
banana_maker 5y ago
It's my understanding that millenials and gen-z make up 31% [0], as of -2020-. Boomers and older still make up 44%. So sure, go ahead and blame millenials and gen-z for policies made in 2020 and onward. 0: https://catalist.us/wh-national/ https://catalist.us/wh-national/
blaser-waffle 5y ago
> Edit: That struck a chord with millenials, ha! Tell your friends that bitching does not help, voting does. Boomers seem to understand this and so they have a disproportionate amount of influence. You want it to stop? VOTE. There is, still, a statistical bump in the boomers, hence the baby boom. There is just more of them, and they vote. They've only just started dying in big numbers. Plus the older voters get the more they tend to vote, for various reasons.

vlunkr 5y ago

So what you're saying is, millenials aren't responsible for disastrous policies yet. They'll get their turn.

banana_maker 5y ago
Correct. I've no doubt that the new generation will also make some terrible calls thanks to lobbying being legal. I believe the environment will be much more prioritized, but we'll have to see. However, I'm tired of silents/boomers/gen-xers making comments about and blaming millenials as if it's somehow our fault the boomers and silents in congress are out of touch. A quick look at voting demographics and the demographics of congress dispels that notion (for now, as of 2022).
- ncr100 5y ago
  Good, be tired of it. The blame game is unhelpful unless a holistic explanation of Why Did You Do That is also given.
ncr100 5y ago
Absolutely. It's difficult to be omniscient about the impact of everything to everything else for all future outcomes. Smacks of Ageism, to my mind.