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A boomers response, "Why are you marching dad"

Posted on 9/20/25 at 3:30 pm
Posted by Trevaylin
south texas
Member since Feb 2019
9449 posts
Posted on 9/20/25 at 3:30 pm


Boomers catch a lot of hell for showing up at liberal demonstrations, for many it's a sea of white haired folks following the complainers. I think I figured it out, being 77, I am a classic boomer. When I was 20 years younger, I managed important stuff, travelled the world on business, raised a family, participated in community development, 24/7.
Today the phone no longer rings. Invitations no longer exists. My letters to the editor are not posted, next generation family is moving on, trips out of the house are to doctors. Comments to community action meetings are passed over, and there is a scam behind every web page. We are lonely drifting for a cause to justify getting dressed and out the door.
Liberal causes are shallow, and easier to navigate. Liberals like noise, drum beats, slogans noises loud enough for the hearing impaired. It's a boomer welcoming environment , irrespective of what the cause is about.
My career was large petrochemical industry and it served me very well. But now the industry considers me very obsolete and having no value. Yesterday I joined an established liberal environmental activist group because I think the opportunity to be a valued participant is there, and I might be able to influence the group in a positive manner.
Figure out how to involve Boomers in conservative causes. They need to feel valued. And it will keep them off the street behind BLM, LGTBQ, Palestine, covid etc activities. Your parents need this help.
Posted by BasedAF
Member since Nov 2024
681 posts
Posted on 9/20/25 at 3:31 pm to
Shut up boomer
Posted by W2NOMO
Member since Jul 2025
1459 posts
Posted on 9/20/25 at 3:33 pm to
You sound like my dad who left his family when I was 13 to champion liberal environmental causes and drink whiskey on the rez.
Posted by Penrod
Member since Jan 2011
51488 posts
Posted on 9/20/25 at 3:34 pm to
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Shut up boomer
lol

I'm a boomer. He made some good points. But the juxtaposition of his long post and the brevity of yours was excellent!
Posted by cusoonkpd
Big Mamou
Member since Apr 2015
1815 posts
Posted on 9/20/25 at 3:34 pm to
You give boomers a bad name.
Posted by APHA
Corpus Christi
Member since Mar 2013
453 posts
Posted on 9/20/25 at 3:51 pm to
How much are they paying you?
Posted by Trevaylin
south texas
Member since Feb 2019
9449 posts
Posted on 9/20/25 at 4:02 pm to
Respondents are the proof of my analysis. They are the reason for boomers getting involved in liberal causes.
Posted by Prodigal Son
Member since May 2023
1590 posts
Posted on 9/20/25 at 4:05 pm to
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Figure out how to involve Boomers

Sorry baw. Figure out how to get the frick out of the way. Figure out how to not make the world revolve around you. Take up fishing, hunting, bingo, etc. Just stop thinking that you still have value to the mainstream of society. Your value, at this stage, is only to your great grandchildren. Buy some Worther’s Originals, and stop worrying about the world. There’s literally nothing you can do- except make it worse. Go fish.
Posted by SallysHuman
Lady Palmetto Bug
Member since Jan 2025
12031 posts
Posted on 9/20/25 at 4:06 pm to
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Respondents are the proof of my analysis.


I can see why'd you think that, but that doesn’t make it true.

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They are the reason for boomers getting involved in liberal causes.


Bull hockey... Everyone makes their own choices.

IF, IF, IF what you say is true... that Boomer Allegiance isn't to any particular cause, but is given based on who claps the loudest for them...

IF that is true- they were never gonna be conservative anyway.

Posted by Breesus
House of the Rising Sun
Member since Jan 2010
69358 posts
Posted on 9/20/25 at 4:07 pm to
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I think I figured it out, being 77, I am a classic boomer. When I was 20 years younger, I managed important stuff, travelled the world on business, raised a family, participated in community development, 24/7. Today the phone no longer rings. Invitations no longer exists. My letters to the editor are not posted, next generation family is moving on, trips out of the house are to doctors.


Where is your family?
Posted by SallysHuman
Lady Palmetto Bug
Member since Jan 2025
12031 posts
Posted on 9/20/25 at 4:07 pm to
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stop worrying about the world. There’s literally nothing you can do- except make it worse. Go fish.


According to OP, they're content to douse it in gasoline and strike a match on their way out because "someone didn't care what I had to say". Godless Pricks!!
Posted by StPeteLSU
St Petersburg, FL
Member since Oct 2011
2039 posts
Posted on 9/20/25 at 4:09 pm to
A younger (64) boomer here and I do none of the crap you wrote. Retired and made sure I had stuff to do and places to go in my last 20 plus years. And I grew up in La so pretty anti govt period. Dont like either side as they are all grifters.

However Trump found this group of people and I personally believe this is by far the largest group in the way they want the country to be. Happy now and if JD gets 8 years followed by well wish it had been Charlie. Makes me sick to my stomach still. But we can make it back to good times if we get the next 8 years after Trump gets us set up. MAGA !!
Posted by Trevaylin
south texas
Member since Feb 2019
9449 posts
Posted on 9/20/25 at 4:11 pm to
you capture the issue perfectly
Posted by Trevaylin
south texas
Member since Feb 2019
9449 posts
Posted on 9/20/25 at 4:12 pm to
I wouldn't know your dad
Posted by Trevaylin
south texas
Member since Feb 2019
9449 posts
Posted on 9/20/25 at 4:13 pm to
Penrod has some mature observations
Posted by FluffyBunnyFeet
Dallas, TX
Member since Oct 2014
3553 posts
Posted on 9/20/25 at 4:13 pm to
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Yesterday I joined an established liberal environmental activist group because I think the opportunity to be a valued participant is there, and I might be able to influence the group in a positive manner.

So, now that the mask is completely off and the liberal left has shown themselves for the soulless monsters that they are, you joined up with them? I'm glad your new purely evil comrades have provided a renewed sense of belonging, but it's no wonder your "next generation family" has moved on from you.
Posted by Trevaylin
south texas
Member since Feb 2019
9449 posts
Posted on 9/20/25 at 4:16 pm to
Went to a wedding in little Mamou one time and had to show the local kids how to open fold lock top sandwich bags.

bad name covers an infinite amount of sins, could you be more precise
Posted by ClientNumber9
Member since Feb 2009
9903 posts
Posted on 9/20/25 at 4:17 pm to
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My career was large petrochemical industry and it served me very well


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Yesterday I joined an established liberal environmental activist group


So you spent an entire career making money and doing great financially through oil and petrochemicals but now that you're retired you go virtue signal and join an environmental activist group. You are exactly what I imagine the stereotypical boomer to be. Glad to know your ethics are for sale.
Posted by Trevaylin
south texas
Member since Feb 2019
9449 posts
Posted on 9/20/25 at 4:18 pm to
In another year I will have received more retirement checks than I received payroll checks. I am sorry you lost out on defined benefit retirement programs
Posted by NC_Tigah
Make Orwell Fiction Again
Member since Sep 2003
134897 posts
Posted on 9/20/25 at 4:18 pm to
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Boomers catch a lot of hell for showing up at liberal demonstrations
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