I think the reason why boomers helped themselves to social programs and then voted them away is solely for "stolen valor" of the "bragging rights" that rightfully belong to milennials and gen Z.
What do boomers value as a personality type more than anything else? Toughness. Everything is about proving how tough they are.
After "winning" on easy mode, they voted to crank it up to "Dante must die" mode in hopes that people in other countries might be impressed at how well they're doing despite them not only living in hard mode by choice, but voting to make it harder and harder because "We Americans like to challenge ourselves, unlike you pansies!"
Call me a conspiracy theorist, but here goes:
I think the reason why boomers helped themselves to social programs and then voted them away is solely for "stolen valor" of the "bragging rights" that rightfully belong to milennials and gen Z.
What do boomers value as a personality type more than anything else? Toughness. Everything is about proving how tough they are.
After "winning" on easy mode, they voted to crank it up to "Dante must die" mode in hopes that people in other countries might be impressed at how well they're doing despite them not only living in hard mode by choice, but voting to make it harder and harder because "We Americans like to challenge ourselves, unlike you pansies!"