Talking to Your Generation X Parents (or Grandparents) About: The 2024 Election

A Guide for Generation Z

This week’s Presidential election result has been stressful and upsetting for all Americans. For those on the losing side, there has been a tremendous amount of upset, feeling that their values and very sense of what it means to be an American have been betrayed.

And those on the winning side are even more upset for reasons that they can’t define.

Your dad thinks these are scary young tough guy action heroes. Just… let him have this, okay? People are getting laid off left and right at work and things have been tough with your mother lately, so please don’t ruin this thing he still enjoys.

Whether at Thanksgiving dinner, or between songs while driving in the car, or you’re on a discord server talking trash while beating them at Grand Theft Auto: Online, the subject of politics may come up, during which you will find your parents getting heated or even emotionally distraught. And nothing will make it worse than a big dose of intergenerational miscommunication.

Just remember that your parent…