And yet they’ll all still vote Republican.
A majority of Democratic voters (57%) were ages 50 and older in the 2022 midterms, compared with 51% of Joe Biden’s voters in 2020 and 53% of voters who supported a Democratic House candidate in 2018. Just 14% of Democratic voters were under the age of 30 in 2022 — similar to the 15% of Democratic voters who were in this age group in 2018, but less than their share of Democratic voters in 2020 (17%).
Seven-in-ten Republican voters were 50 and older in the most recent election, compared with 62% of Republican voters in 2020 and 68% in 2018.
All that proves is that old people vote more than young people. Not that a majority of old people vote Democrat.
Those are people who actually voted in the off-year election, not people whos view or registration. https://www.statista.com/statistics/319068/party-identification-in-the-united-states-by-generation/ shows that those in Gen x and above (43 year old an above) Republicans have a ~10% margin over Democrats. Even Pew agrees that Party or Leans-Party favors Republicans in the over 50 group by roughly the same margin https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2020/06/02/the-changing-composition-of-the-electorate-and-partisan-coalitions/
Illinois has been voting blue since 1992, the current president is a Democrat, what does this have to do with republicans?
Hahahahahhahahah. Another person that doesn’t realize that Chicago votes blue, but almost of the rest of the state is a deep, deep red.
My representative is January 6’s Mary “hitler is right” Miller.
But the article specifies chicago area, ie cook county which votes blue
Edited for semantics
Elderly people without family support are going to end up on the streets en masse because of things like this.
This is already happening in Canada. Even though self assisted suicide is only for those already facing a terrible and unavoidable near death, we have multiple reports of medical staff recommending it for people who can be treated… which doesn’t magically get them on some death list, it just exposes the medical staff for being an apathetic idiot.
Family Support
The Boomers can have exactly as much family support as they gave to those who came after.
“Your 17. Get the fuck out”. “Now I’m poor and elderly, and it’s your problem” ay lmao
“we’re not being malicious, we’re just pumping prices like everyone else regardless of humans. because profits.”
“Everybody’s doing it. In capitalism, you try to get the highest price you can for a product.”
- Martin Shkreli
Who, if you don’t remember, obtained the manufacturing license for the antiparasitic drug Daraprim and raised its price by 5,455% (from US$13.50 to $750 per pill).
Why y’all so bloodthirsty? These people might not be destitute but they’re not billionaires. They planned for a retirement and got it, and now they’re getting evicted. They’re victims of a cruel system that hurts everyone. Capitalism won’t even reward people who “play by the rules”, whatever those are supposed to be. Nothing wrong with having empathy. The same boot is stepping on poor people too.
Maybe if people’s grandparents with nice retirements are getting evicted somebody will give a shit.
Humans suck. They always have. You can’t expect them to do the right thing on their own. There must be laws, and there must be enforcement.
Why isn’t the government stepping up to end this kind of greedy practice? Because it’s made out of humans and, well…
… humans suck.
Sorry, but as a human I have seen the good things we also do. You look like you are surrounded by either humans with toxic personalities, people who are oppressed by capitalism (the rat race), or have some underlying mental issues yourself. Regardless of what the reason may be, please get mental help, and no this isn’t in any way a funny pun or an insult to you, I just want you to know that you are loved and with mental help you can see how beautiful people can be (I did).
Please take care random internet stranger.
See how I know that humans suck? You just assumed a whole lot of negative stuff about me, without knowing nothing about me. And I really, really want to think that you’re being genuine, but you sound like the “I’ll pray for your salvation, you poor lost soul” condescending crowd.
Regardless, that’s fine. I made sure that my mental health is well taken care of, I surround myself with beautiful, supportive, well-rounded peeps, and I don’t take unimportant things too seriously unless I’m bored.
You too take care, internet stranger.
Friend, “humans suck” is an easy opinion to hold if you’re already feeling defeated. Things can be better but enough people have to want it. I refuse to give up. I’ll do what I can, even if it’s only voting. Even if it’s just speaking up when people in my IRL life hold half-baked opinions and spread misinformation.
I will have hope, I think you should too.
Market rate, bitch, pay up or hit the streets. #trump #republican #deregulation #sarcasm
Landleeches gonna landleech
One of my old landlords did this to me after I reported them to the city for ignoring severe water damage for 2 months. The city sent a health inspector who took one look and said they had to fix it. Landlord showed up with his goon squad to intimidate me, then hit me with a 200% increase.
