Whole lotta Boomers can’t figure out that they aren’t entitled to their children’s attention, love, or respect, that their kids are… conscious, sentient, independent human beings… after they spent their whole narcissistic lives negging their kids and inventing new problems for them, new standards to meet, more messes to clean up, whenever they feel ‘unappreciated’.
Oh well, they can enjoy the housing crash they caused by fancying themselves as prudent investors, and then they can enjoy their golden years in an underfunded and understaffed elder care home.
It didn’t have to be this way, but too many of 'em never listened to a damn thing anyone else said that made them feel insecure or unclever for even a moment.
(Most of the housing market run up, most of the purchased properties, both 08 era and now… actually were done by ‘small landlords’, self styled real estate investors. Yep, corpos did a lot too, but not the majority. Also, now the median homebuyer age is 61, the median first time homebuyer has gone up from 28 in 1980, to 38 now in 2025… the boomers literally, objectively are the primary responsible party for making housing unaffordable for everyone else. But hey, fuck them kids, eh?)
(… and thats all before going into generational voting patterns, and how by continuing to try to ride along with a system rigged in their favor, they have also literally doomed the planet and biosphere. Just a real bang up job.)
Ditto. Mine are now virtue signaling how anti-Trump they are when they always pedaled “voting for your wallet” and other Reagan-type bullshit. I don’t blame them for being so obtuse, but god damn can it be frustrating to see the hypocrisies bubble up while they demand adulation.
LOL mine too. They suddenly see the light and realize that they were terrible parents and now are so sad that many of my siblings are rampant MAGA types. Oh if only they knew then what they know now, dontchano.
I hypothesize that insular “family values” is the time bomb that stoked their egos insofar as to blind them to the real machinations of this world, and now their minds are detonating into a cloud of dissonance, deflection, and denial. It’s sad really, to witness the fallout of decades of propaganda.
Just maybe might have something to do with the hitherto unseen mass phenomenon of adult children going no contact with, ghosting their parents.
Whole lot of narcissistic abuse on one side, whole lotta CPTSD on the other.
https://theweek.com/culture-life/no-contact-family-estrangement
https://justinthenickofcrime.substack.com/p/no-contact-why-millennials-gen-z
https://slate.com/life/2024/08/no-contact-parents-meaning-family-estrangement.html
Whole lotta Boomers can’t figure out that they aren’t entitled to their children’s attention, love, or respect, that their kids are… conscious, sentient, independent human beings… after they spent their whole narcissistic lives negging their kids and inventing new problems for them, new standards to meet, more messes to clean up, whenever they feel ‘unappreciated’.
Oh well, they can enjoy the housing crash they caused by fancying themselves as prudent investors, and then they can enjoy their golden years in an underfunded and understaffed elder care home.
It didn’t have to be this way, but too many of 'em never listened to a damn thing anyone else said that made them feel insecure or unclever for even a moment.
(Most of the housing market run up, most of the purchased properties, both 08 era and now… actually were done by ‘small landlords’, self styled real estate investors. Yep, corpos did a lot too, but not the majority. Also, now the median homebuyer age is 61, the median first time homebuyer has gone up from 28 in 1980, to 38 now in 2025… the boomers literally, objectively are the primary responsible party for making housing unaffordable for everyone else. But hey, fuck them kids, eh?)
(… and thats all before going into generational voting patterns, and how by continuing to try to ride along with a system rigged in their favor, they have also literally doomed the planet and biosphere. Just a real bang up job.)
This describes my boomer parents with scary accuracy. So fucking true.
Ditto. Mine are now virtue signaling how anti-Trump they are when they always pedaled “voting for your wallet” and other Reagan-type bullshit. I don’t blame them for being so obtuse, but god damn can it be frustrating to see the hypocrisies bubble up while they demand adulation.
LOL mine too. They suddenly see the light and realize that they were terrible parents and now are so sad that many of my siblings are rampant MAGA types. Oh if only they knew then what they know now, dontchano.
I hypothesize that insular “family values” is the time bomb that stoked their egos insofar as to blind them to the real machinations of this world, and now their minds are detonating into a cloud of dissonance, deflection, and denial. It’s sad really, to witness the fallout of decades of propaganda.
I have felt sorry for boomers because of the endless propaganda. Only a few seem to have been able to see through it.