Amerika

Generation X gets overlooked by the media because we wanted to be overlooked. After the horrors of our parents, the “Me Generation” and grandparents, “The Greatest Generation,” we hoped to just escape any kind of categorization and get away from the collapsing Rome 2.0 that is the modern West.

A misunderstood group, Generation X were viewed as dropouts who were completely alienated from a world they saw as disintegrating, looking back at a better WASP past as they were pushed into a failing diversity future.

Not surprisingly, much of their angst gave rise to the alt-right, fitting for the highest IQ generation which believed in a purge of the waste humans flooding a dying civilization.

Feeling betrayed by the Boomers and rejecting modernity entirely, this generation has a Trumpian view of the world: keep the creative, productive, and those that maintain useful things, and lose everyone else because they are parasites of decay.

Some are noticing that the Generation X experience was both forgotten and on-point in its rejection of the nearly universally popular illusions by which modernity lives by:

Over the past few years, generational warfare has only ramped up—so much so that it’s become boring to even reference: Gen Z hating on millennials for being cringe, millennials hating on Gen Z for being puritanical, and everyone hating on boomers for being, well, boomers. But Gen X—born somewhere between 1965 and 1980—has been largely forgotten about (although even saying that has become a cliché of sorts). Alongside all of this finger-pointing among the generations are claims that, actually, we were the cool ones—no, it was me! But what if it’s none of us? What if the cool ones are actually those unbothered people that nobody talks about?

In a shock twist, this forgotten and overlooked generation of alienated dropouts seems to like Donald Trump as a president:

Trump’s approval rating sits at 42%, down from 45% in March, according to a NPR/PBS/Marist survey released Tuesday.

Where American support drops, 48% of Generation X remain fully satisfied with the Trump presidency. We have known our entire lives that the farce must end at some point, and we applaud him for making the painful cuts before we simply become a Brazil-Russia hybrid with no future.

Tags: alt-right, donald j. trump, generation x