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I suspect that in every successive generation, people in their 20s generally dislike the two-party system and feel little party loyalty or identity. That was certainly true of my peers and me (Gen X). I have become aligned with one of the parties not because I think it's great (I find it frustrating tbh), but because the other party has been attacking things I most care about. I wouldn't be surprised if that "lesser of two evils" approach is true of many people.

As for economics, I believe that since the Baby Boomers, every generation has had a higher cost-of-living and a lesser share of wealth than the one before it. Certainly the cost of a college education, house, and car were more for me than for my parents. My Baby Boom parents were able to buy a 3-bedroom house in a good suburb on one entry-level salary while they were still in their early 20s and had 2 young kids. (They had no inheritance or other pre-existing wealth either.) That wasn't possible for me, and I think it has only gotten more and more distant for the generations after me--I think it's completely unimaginable now--but I'd love to see the data. With each generation having more of an uphill climb than the one before it, something is seriously wrong.

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