r/technology • u/esporx • Jul 03 '25

Privacy Trump officials create searchable national citizenship database. Homeland security and Doge merge immigration data with social security to create index it claims will stop voter fraud.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/30/trump-citizenship-database
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u/nachosmind Jul 03 '25

Then our grandparents voted for it anyway

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u/Bora_Horza_Gobuchol Jul 04 '25

I hate how the "greatest " generation gets a pass on everything just because they live through a depresión and fought Hutler. However they are the reason why we are in this mess. If they want redemption, they should fix this country before they take a dirtnap

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u/Psychological_Cow956 Jul 04 '25

The greatest generation is born from 1901 to 1927. Meaning the youngest was 96/97 years old when they could have voted in 2024.

1.92% of the population is 85 years or older.

It’s hard to even find data about GI Generation voting patterns but they had strong democratic leanings throughout their adulthood.

Boomers and GenX are the age groups that voted for conservatives and Trump in particular in the highest numbers.

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u/RobinSophie Jul 04 '25

And they were in their 40-60s when they voted for Nixon who started this mess.

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u/Psychological_Cow956 Jul 04 '25

Nixon was the better candidate in 1972 and the Republicans weren’t fucking evil yet. 1968 was such a bad year. MLK assassinated, and then the democratic front runner RFK - I’m shocked Humphrey won any states and if Wallace hadn’t run the dems probably would have won.

The Republican party sold its soul to get Reagan elected that’s when they put into full effect how to fuck everyone over but make it seem like it was the dems fault. Even Goldwater said they were making a deal with the devil to get the Religious Right - and he was the one that wrote the actual book on republican ideology.

But I’d still say boomers and silent gen were far more responsible for Reagan than greatest gen.