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How did Gen X/Millennials failed at tackling the political issues they criticised in the 90's (jlai.lu)

submitted 3 days ago by Ziggurat@jlai.lu to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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In the 90's a lot of popular song were pretty political, remember Killing in the name of and even the skate pop-punk has pretty popular political song's (Offspring, Blink Green-day). Actually political movies were also quite big in the 90's/00's (French Masterpiece La haine, or the whole work of Michael Moore).

I would expect to see that the people who were teens/young adult at the time would tackle all these issues 20-30 years latter when they'll finally take the power and the reality is that everything got worse, than even talking about-it make you sound like a radical, and that the gen-X/Millennials totally failed to change something.

What happened ? and how did we fail ?

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[–] Waldelfe@feddit.org 15 points 3 days ago

I'm 40. The largest voting group in my country is 60+. It really doesn't have a lot of effect what you vote or try to do as someone <60, 60+ decides. Same goes for a lot of companies I've been in. 50+ is in the majority, especially in positions of power. Either learn to talk like them and kiss their ass or you'll never succeed and be out of the job in no time.

Millenials are just not in charge. I've seen it in so many areas of life, be it business or civil society. Younger people try to change something and someone 50/60+ will scream bloody murder so things will stay the same because "we can't alienate those people".