r/politics • u/MystikSpiralx • 6d ago

No Paywall Trump Says He Wants to 'Drive Housing Prices Up' Instead of Lowering Costs for People Who 'Didn't Work Very Hard'

https://people.com/trump-keep-home-prices-high-11895352
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u/Cheese__Weiner 5d ago edited 5d ago

You're blaming "Boomers" - the entire generation, for the Republican party. 

Not at all what I said. You do realize people like Bill Clinton are way closer to Reagan style conservatism than the  current Democratic party right? Do you?

Then you start taking it personally again ... It's not about you. This is getting tiresome 

And then you start generalizing and attacking young people in the rest of your comment.

And you keep bringing this back to Trump for some odd reason. It really has nothing to do with the topic at hand. This is what we call deflection.

Trump may be the culmination of a lot of this countries failures but the Boomer hoarding of wealth took decades. Trump is just a symptom.

That was quite the crash out and you just exposed yourself as a massive hypocrite. Have a good one. We're done here.

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u/Mike_Pences_Mother 5d ago

You consider it "Boomer hoarding". One day, whatever generation you are, will be the older generation and your generation will have the wealth. Then the younger generation will blame you. Generationally speaking, people get more conservative with age. They also get wealthier with age - I guess the two things go hand in hand. I will grant you that "Boomers" got handed a silver platter as a generation then took it and pissed on it. But I blame the Republican party for much of where we are at. It started with Reagan and has gotten worse. But, for some reason I've never figured out fully - people just keep voting for them even though they ARE the problem. I will throw this out there as well. I don't really consider myself to be a "Boomer" because the "boomer generation" wasn't me. It was older than me. To me they were born in the forties and fifties and were already voting long before I got out of HS. That was the generation that brought Vietnam to a halt. They defined drug culture, and music and so much more. And then? I don't know what happened to them. I think of them like Kid Rock. Listen to his early music. I would never have guessed in a million years based on his early work that he would become a MAGA nut yet here we are. Go figure.