re: #94 uriel

On the one hand, that’s true- they did get us out of Nam, pushed for civil rights for minorities and women, encouraged environmentalism, and put pressure on a corrupt president to resign.

On the other hand, there is a large and very vocal proportion of them that are now, very actively, trying to roll back civil rights to the 50’s, who have no problem with endless war, are eagerly trashing the planet, and are close to worshiping a corrupt president as a god emperor. So I can sort of see their point.

No matter how much they may have accomplished in their youth, absent the boomers and silent generation, there is no Trump. That’s just a demographic fact.

I think the mistake is in seeing “Boomers” as a monolithic bloc.

The ones who fought for civil and women’s rights, for the environment, against the war weren’t ALL OF us. It was a large fraction of us. And most of us who believed in that that then still hold those values

And a lot of our fellow Boomers resented all of that at the time and now that they’re old and fairly well off, they STILL resent it and want to take things back to how they imagined it was when we were kids.

And there are probably some who switched sides.

BTW, lest you think the white Boomer resentment is unique to our generation, remember the ‘hardhats’ who wanted to beat up the hippies back in the 60s. It’s not generational.