Protests are for "boomers".
Posted on 11/24/2025 9:29:40 PM PST by Cronos
One of the most notable and puzzling factors is the lack of young people. If you have participated in a No Kings protest or seen one in person, you have surely noticed the upward skew in the age of participants. Only 8 percent of Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 say they took part in the protests in October, compared with 13 percent of those age 65 and older, according to YouGov. Students are most conspicuous in their absence. The Rice University student newspaper counted only “about 30” students out of a crowd of more than 13,000 at a Houston protest, and Tulane’s newspaper documented “several” students at a protest of more than 10,000 in New Orleans. ... The absence of young people from conventional protests is both a problem and a warning. The opposition to Mr. Trump’s authoritarian speed run requires new strategies that will engage a wider swath of the population. In Chicago, for instance, neighbors have formed community groups that use tools ranging from text messages to whistles to counter harrowing immigration raids. Whatever form the opposition takes, it must offer what conventional protest currently does not: a morally compelling form of resistance that can deliver results.
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Ironic thought, isn't it? It might partially explain an opening Charlie Kirk used to effect.
I remember one of the documentaries about the 1960s as the era of questioning and the time of change had a young person say: “No matter how much protesting we do now it will only be when some of us get older and take over the leadership roles in politics, education, business and culture with our ideas pushing out the old, lame, plastic ways of today that America will change.”
That has come true. Sadly.
Well, duh. The old geezers do lame stuff like chant goofy slogans and sing goofy folk songs and carry signs with goofy slogans. Young people are more into smashing store windows and throwing bricks at cop cars and tossing fireworks at cops and their horses. You know. Hijinks. Those wacky kids.
I have a huge family, my wife’s is even bigger. When I talk to the younger crowd.
Politics isn’t on their minds but their economic position is very much on their minds.
If the GOP thinks they’re going to win future elections talking about Socialism, Muslims, illegals, Israel & trannies, while doing nothing when they hold power.
Just watch, it’s going to be a rude awakening.
The only thing we have going for us is the democrats, if given power will also do nothing.
Protests are for "boomers".
A long time ago we knew each other for a short period. You don't know anything about me. It was easy then. No one had a cushier berth than we did. It's not surprising our friendship could survive that. ["Nick", The Big Chill, 1983]
Looks like a crowd of losers and tards to me but I’m a boomer so maybe my eyesight is waning.
One of the key takeaways from the Trump-Mamdani meeting is that some of their voters overlap.
Even in AOC’s district back in November, people voted for her as their rep and Trump as their president on the same ballot.
Gen Z is less PARTISAN than prior generations. They don’t care what party you are so long as you can address their grievances. Their primary right now being, affordability.
Charlie Kirk’s warnings about socialism resurface…with focus on affordability:
Beta males and homely women.
This group has been a nuisance my whole political life.(Born in 1971)
I can’t wait until they’re “eating dirt” or “ashes in an urn.”
Miller called them old stupid hippies & he was right, that’s exactly what they are.
Average age of approx 70.
And it shows in the polling, Liberals have a (big) lead only with voters over age 60. Even though Poilievre is a useless CINO who will do nothing.
Thanks.... now I feel like an even blacker sheep.
Thanks.... now I feel like an even blacker sheep.
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You and many others in your age range are black sheep. Just doing what every generation did before you without the fanfare or the attention this particular faction gets.
I hope you live to be a 100.😀
But they're dangerous by their self-righteousness. Self-righteousness is just a phony form of respectability. And when you puncture that self-righteousness and ''respectability'' that's when the Tesla dealerships get firebombed and Charlie Kirk was murdered.
“””Only 8 percent of Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 say they took part in the protests in October, compared with 13 percent of those age 65 and older”””
Surprise, surprise, the diehard Boomer leftists who are still bemoaning McGovern’s loss in 1972 outnumbered the newly minted leftists.
It’s all about the money :)
SOME Boomers are protesting Trump.
The line of Trump voting Boomers on the first day of early voting last year was long; they were protesting the saboteurs ruining their nation.
They are getting paid.
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