re: Boomer loathing?

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...holding up Generatio X and the Millennial from getting their crack at generational power.

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We X-ers don't have a problem with the Boomers for the most part. We appreciated a lot of what y'all contributed to the music scene with the great bands we saw growing up in the 70s and 80s. It's the "Flower Power/Peace Freak" part of the Boomer generation that made a mess of things, not the generation as a whole.

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The real issue is that the government sold out the middle class to cheap overseas labor decades ago.

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And the nation's cultural identity was sold out in the name of diversity decades ago as well.

Selling out the middle class to overseas labor and the nation's culture to the diversity golden calf may not have been solely due to boomers but boomers sure as hell accelerated it.

During the period in which that generation was and remains in charge (Clinton/Obama/Obama/Trump/Biden/Trump) they voted for massive government debt, allowed FedGov to become weaponized against the general population and oversaw the decline of the US from its post war peak to its current position teetering on the edge of political, cultural and fiscal collapse.

DEI was really more of a Gen X / older millennial issue but the roots were planted in the leftist / socialist takeover of the bureaucratic, academic and expert classes during the 1970s and 1980s which also happened under the watch of the boomers.

The perception of that generation is that they inherited post WW2 era prosperity in the form of a trust fund and spent it all while ignoring the massive cultural declines as they pursued their own personal goals until the very end where the conservative leaning members of that generation like Trump finally struck back leaving behind the cat lady types on the left to vote for illegal immigration and social equity judicial systems that have turned our big cities into dystopian places wrought with crime and generational poverty.

Corruption and pure greed knows no labeled age category.
Every labeled age category is loaded with those that practice and participate in the above.
X,Y,Z or whatever an age group is called will be judged by their following peer groups.

Don’t get caught up in the efforts to pit human against human. There’s an agenda. See first comment above.

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Why shouldn't they enjoy fishing and bouncing grandkids on their knees?

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Just got back from fishing. Pulled my boat up into the lift and walked up to the lake front house. A house that has doubled in value since we built it ten years ago.
I'm going to fish again this evening because the morning excursion sucked.

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The US economy buried the Russians by 1989. People born in 46 would be 43 and mid-career at that time.

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You can barely run for president at 43, the vast majority of politicians from 1980-1990 were greatest generation era.

The boomers didn’t end the Cold War any more than the millennials caused the crippling government debt. Very few if any are really in power yet outside of AOC and Vance both of whom are outliers politically.

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Why do some of you feel they have profited at your expense?

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Pure ignorance. They never lived and experienced what Boomers experienced.

These A Holes have never done anything of significance so they blame someone else. In their minds, it can't be their faults.
I'm two years older than a Boomer. I grew up in poverty. Got my education off the GI Bill and young wife working.
Put my two Sons through college, and helped buy three automobiles for my grandchildren. One of my grand daughters is working thirty hours a week at Wall Mart and carrying a full college load. I doubt that she will ever be living in her parents basement
Life is good! Screw the Whiney Bitches. Get out of your parents/grandparents basement and prove your self.
The only fault I see in Boomers. They didn't hold the line and teach their children/grandchildren how to succeed in life. Giving them a stipend is not teaching the correct lesson, IMO.

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The presidents have all been boomers since 1993, which is before I was born.

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Biden is Silent Generation (born in ‘42)

I've seen that before.

Tucker's issue seems to be with old hippies rather than Boomers, per se. My old man is a Boomer. He was USMC during Vietnam (he always points out that he did not see combat), lost some HS buddies to that war, and loathed hippies and draft dodgers with a somewhat unhealthy passion.

I was raised in a small town, conservative community. Not many of the hippy class around. So it was not my experience with teachers and mentors of that generation.

As someone else noted on the thread, I do agree that the old hippies are the ones out marching in places like Minneapolis...for reasons that absolutely escape me. How did that group come to the conclusion that a sovereign border was somehow a bad thing?