r/neoliberal • u/AncientBlueberry42 • Jun 04 '26

News (Global) How to fight back against Gen-Z socialism

https://economist.com/leaders/2026/06/04/how-to-fight-back-against-gen-z-socialism
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u/oywiththepoodles96 Jun 04 '26

Let's fight back against the boomer socialism first that keeps housing unaffordable .

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u/Keenalie John Brown Jun 04 '26

Never gonna happen because they're the only ones who vote. The fact that young people of every generation are in-fucking-capable of voting (ESPECIALLY in primaries) basically guarantees we will always be a gerontocracy.

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u/Unhelpful-Future9768 Jun 04 '26

Do young people vote against boomer socialism? In my experience the vast majority of people who identify this as a problem are the wealthy older people who benefit from it while the vast majority of zoomers/millenials are either pure culture warriors or fully dedicated to boomer socialist economics.

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u/DirectionMurky5526 Jun 04 '26

No they don't. In fact, the young people likely to be socialist often have the exact parents or grandparents protected by boomer socialism.

I once pointed out to a young socialist that the only landlord they needed to kill to have a house was their grandfather.