Baby boomers comprised a larger share of voters in 2024, accounting for 32%, but they are trending lower after hitting a peak of 36% in 2016.
Ocasio-Cortez, a millennial herself, expects the younger generation will soon tip the scales in American politics.
“Millennials are not punk kids anymore. We’re grown adults with mortgages and kids,” she said. “And we—that generation is starting to be decisive at the polls. And there is anger at being ignored, sidelined, having our economic futures mortgaged by the generations that came before us on everything from the economy to climate. And we’re taking the reins.”
From global warming to debt crisis to lack of affordable health insurance (all intentional), Boomers have definitely overstayed their welcome.
At least where I live there would need to be a generational project of encouraging unionization and worker owned coops.
Labor is so rare and weak that most people either don’t know anyone in a union or don’t know that they know someone in a union.
Worker owned Co ops are vanishingly rare. I wasn’t able to find any operating in Texas Last time I checked. We don’t have the infrastructure for workers to rise up and manage anything here, so we remain at the mercy of capital.
But, expanding Unions and Co ops is worth doing for its own sake. Even if the revolution never happens, it still improves human welfare.