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[–] 46 points 8 months ago (13 children)

If they start drafting kids, that will be the end of whatever support he has left among boomers. Boomers fought in Vietnam, many of them were drafted, and voted for "no new wars". Trump is notoriously a draft dodger, which they chose to ignore but, I think they won't be ignoring that anymore.

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  • [–] 84 points 8 months ago (8 children)

    That would take a level of moral consistency the boomers frankly don’t possess.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    You’d be surprised. Boomers on average are more liberal than Gen Xers. Most forget a lot of them were hippies too and I guarantee the hippies lived longer than the more conservative ones.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    were more liberal, maybe. are more liberal, nope.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    Those age bands don’t line up well enough to generational cohorts to draw any specific conclusions IMO, other than perhaps it is unfair to paint any generation with a single brush (which, admittedly I did earlier.)

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  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    He’s nineteen.

    Boomers are okay with that,

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