Personally, as a Millennial, I blame Boomers for everything.
No, it's not. It's making broad generalizations on a huge group of people. It's like blaming all white people for discrimination or all black people for crime. It's wrong and discriminatory, and makes the assumption that everyone in that group is equally bad.
Instead of focusing on a certain age group, focus on the economic forces that gave boomers more opportunity than the younger generations. It's not the age group that's caused the issues, it's those forces.
The growth of Chinese manufacturing is in large part a result of trade policies and our vast growing national debt's impact on currency's. Want long term growth? End deficit spending.
Our poor heath care system is again based on political choices.
The current drug policy and prison system is again an outgrowth of political choices.
Just look at all the collage students not busted for drugs. We have a long history of intentionally creating systemic issues.
I'm not saying that black people commit more crime because they're black. In fact, that's exactly the point I was trying to make: blaming black crime on their skin color is bad because it ignores the socioeconomic forces causing them to commit more crimes than other races with lower poverty levels. Just like how blaming boomers ignores the geopolitical and economic forces that gave them an advantage at the time. Not all black people commit crime, and not all boomers were privileged or lucky in life.
Not saying the stats are worthless; just biased.
If you look annually their are ~17,000 reported murder and non-negligent manslaughter cases in the U.S. However, that excludes for example a significant subset of the ~32,000 traffic facilitates in the US that could be classified as Murder with slightly different laws. (Call it 1/4 from thin air and those murder statistics look different.) Importantly, they are generally both crimes, but while someone still ends up dead legally they are very different.
Another issue is if a factory kills thousands from pollution is that one crime, thousands of murders, or millions of assaults based on different interpretations of the law.
PS: Why are most serial killers in the US white? Is it because they actually kill more people, or because gang violence is not counted.
PPS: I am not sure why so many people are down voting you, it's reasoned argument even if I don't exactly agree.
This is at root of most discussions about problems in these areas. And never gets mentioned, instead lots of intellectualizing about what should and shouldn't be.
No, this makes the assumption that all millennials would only vote for a millennial. That doesn't make sense. Millennials typically don't have as much political experience. Why would we vote for them?
Millennials don't need to be voted into office for their voice to be heard. That's the point of a republic, to elect representatives that reflect your _viewpoints_, not age.
Requires someone to be in Congress, not be a normal person on election day. Regular voters have very limited direct impact on specific pieces of legislation.
Personally, it seems like it's the millennials keeping the whole system afloat!