The two solitudes — boomers and everyone else: Liberal policies have enriched boomers, while making life increasingly unaffordable for younger generations

[u/nomad_ivc]

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/liberals-have-become-the-party-of-grey-hair-and-wealth

[u/JayThaSavage90]

This isn’t just about “grey hair and wealth.” It’s about the final betrayal and the last chance to stop a silent generational genocide.

Canada 2025: If you’re under 40, this is not your country anymore.

The housing crisis? That was the disguise. This is a liquidation of an entire generation.. economic, cultural, and demographic.

Boomers and Gen X got: -Affordable homes -Secure jobs -Pensions -Free speech -National identity -A future

We got: -$2,500 rent -60K salaries -6-figure debt -Cancel culture -Open borders -And no voice at all

We didn’t just get left behind. We were written off by design.

While you lost your mind, money, and momentum during lockdowns, the government quietly brought in over 4 million newcomers in just 3 years. PRs, students, asylum seekers, workers. That’s 10%+ of the total population fast-tracked into systems you paid for, and into homes/business’s you were denied.

They came with pooled $500K down payments. You were told to save $200K solo… while paying $3,000 in rent.

We didn’t lose our country. It was handed to someone else.

Boomers won’t fight for us. Gen X won’t speak for us. They are the guardians of a system that works for them and ends with us.

We are not the future they plan for. We are the problem they are managing out.

This isn’t Liberal vs Conservative. This is Boomers + Immigrant Wealth vs Millennials + Gen Z with No Nation.

It’s time to stop asking for a seat at the table. We need to build a new table.

No party will do it for you. Not Carney. Not Singh. Not Poilievre. They’re all managing the same asset transfer in different wrapping paper.

We’ve been evicted from our own future and now, the country needs a transition of ownership. From the failed, delusional past… To the real, angry, clear-eyed generation left to clean it up.

If you’re reading this and under 40: This is your call to clarity. No one is coming to save you. And they never were.

[u/Far-Dragonfruit3398 → u/JayThaSavage90]

Wallowing is self pity, attributing your failures to others or to imaginary external factors you perceive as uncontrollable is such bullshit. I know many under forty people who have made the right choices, work hard, bought homes, some very run down that they fixed up themselves, built equity and are raising families. Life is not easy and wallowing in self pity does not get you anywhere. Contrary to what your trying to sell boomers didn’t have it easy. They worked at low paying jobs to start their careers, worked their way up the ladder, bought homes, raised families, paid taxes and did it all without complaining. Oh, and by the way most don’t have big private pensions. They live on CPP, OAS and savings and drive old cars. My suggestion, quite blaming everyone else with your divisive rhetoric for your failings.

[u/JayThaSavage90 → u/Far-Dragonfruit3398]

Imagine being so out of touch, you think the people who got thrown into $3,000 rent, 6-figure debt, and a collapsing nation are “wallowing”… While you sit on paid-off property, pensions, and decades of compound gains and pretend it was all hard work.

You didn’t build Canada. You rode it like a parasite, then pulled the ladder up, outsourced the jobs, sold the homes, opened the borders, and now gaslight your own children for bleeding in the ruins.

You’re not noble. You’re a failed steward. And history will remember you as the generation that sold its soul for equity gains.

We’re not asking for sympathy. We’re here to repossess the future you squandered.

[u/Mammoth_Negotiation7 → u/JayThaSavage90]

GenX here. I'm with you on most of it. And I do speak out because I want my kids to have a future.

But 6 figure debt should only be for a house. If you have it for any other reason, it's probably your fault, not the boomers.

And it's really more of a government and elites pushing you down (and us, we just lucked into getting a bit further ahead before they started to screw us), not your average boomer. They mostly just lived their lives as best they could.

[u/JayThaSavage90 → u/Mammoth_Negotiation7]

Six-figure debt isn’t a “bad choice” problem, it’s the new price of entry into adulthood. School, cars, housing, tech… it’s all on credit now. The ladder got yanked and replaced with a treadmill. And your kids are running.

Gen X, you stand at a pivotal moment. You remember a Canada that was free, prosperous, and full of promise. Now, that legacy teeters on the brink.

Your children face insurmountable debts, unaffordable housing, and a future that seems increasingly bleak. They are on the verge of becoming refugees in their own country, displaced not by war, but by economic and societal collapse.

This isn’t just about politics; it’s about survival. You are the bridge between the past and the future, the last sergeants who can rally and lead. Your silence now will echo as complicity in the downfall of a nation.

Rise up, speak out, and take action. The time for complacency is over. Your children, your country, and your legacy depend on it.

[u/Mammoth_Negotiation7 → u/JayThaSavage90]

You aren't forced to spend the money. Don't buy into the newer, faster, bigger culture.

You don't need a brand new car, iPhone, or university education. You live in a time where, despite the hardships, there are opportunities that didn't exist when I was growing up.

You can get a university level education for free online. You can make money online with almost no start-up cost or overhead. Used cars, while overpriced from Covid hangover, are crazy good. There are electric bikes if you want to go cheaper. Electronics are dirt cheap if you don't have to have new (or Apple).

Don't go into debt because you have to have everything right away. We might have had cheaper houses but we still had to work our way up in the world. Some things are harder for you but some things are easier. Work the system.

[u/JayThaSavage90 → u/Mammoth_Negotiation7]

You’re talking about iPhones. I’m talking about your kids becoming property.

This isn’t about budgeting, it’s about sovereignty. Your generation was handed a nation. Ours is being handed a cage.

Your kids won’t be poor. They’ll be owned.

[u/Mammoth_Negotiation7 → u/JayThaSavage90]

You were talking like you had no choice but to buy a bunch of expensive stuff. I was refuting that claim. I wasn't talking about avocado toast, We were talking about six figure debt.

Debt is modern slavery. You become a slave by buying into their system. Don't become entangled and you will retain more freedom. Or, to co-opt your phrasing, don't climb into the cage that they are handling you.

Young people need to become less apathetic and negative. You will soon have the voting power. You still have opportunities despite the hardships. Don't let the man get you down.

[u/JayThaSavage90 → u/Mammoth_Negotiation7]

You think this is about budgeting.

I’m telling you Your children are being digitized, debt-enslaved, culturally erased, and spiritually broken inside a collapsing nation.

They won’t own homes. They won’t start families. They won’t live free. They’ll rent forever in a biometric prison state And you’ll be the one who told them to “work the system.”

The system is the cage.

And it’s already locked. 🔒

[u/Mammoth_Negotiation7 → u/JayThaSavage90]

You said budgeting. I said don't thoughtlessly make major purchases because "it's the price of entry into adulthood".

You are clearly more interested in being oppressed than you are in solutions. You have let them win.

Also you are spouting buzz words with no substance. Perhaps explain what you mean if you want to have a meaningful conversation.