alt Hacker NewsCommentators: "America's young are addicted to their phones, hopelessly politically polarized, and socially illiterate. Test scores are dropping and critical thinking skills are at an all-time low. They hate and fear the other gender, mainline conspiracy theory podcasts, struggle with anxiety, were coddled from birth, etc. etc."
Also commentators: "The elderly have to go. We need fresh blood."
(Yes I acknowledge there is a middle position where you elect 45-year-olds who came of age before the internet yet are still reasonably sharp mentally. I just think it's interesting that the two narratives above seem to coexist so easily.)
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Honestly, 45 year olds will probably have some of the most objective views across that reality.
It's almost like there are different people out there with different ideas about things.
The first commentators are talking mostly about gen-z and gen-alpha nowadays while the second group of commentators wants gen-x or millennials to have power finally. These aren't really opposite takes at all (and if you're talking about test scores and conspiratorial thinking boomers seem to be worse than gen-x and millennials in my experience so in many ways these commentaries are not only not oppositional but actually compatible).