Posted on 06/11/2004 2:21:22 PM PDT by qam1
Now that the boomers are approaching late middle age, they are becoming increasingly exasperated that the fruits of their great reorganization of society are not popular. There is no great uprising against the family, neither has the welfare state caught on, troops coming back from Iraq are not spat upon, neither does gay marriage have any popular support.
It must be frustrating for those who so much wanted to save the world to be looked upon by the world as a bunch of minority odd balls. Africans view abortion as genocide, Asians support the traditional family even more now than in past days if that is possible. True the third world and also the second resents US economic and military strength but this is to be expected. In ancient times there was anti-Greek propaganda where manuscripts were tampered with in order to portray them and their leaders as homosexual. Europe was depicted by third world countries as having become great due to the cheap purchase or theft of its oil minerals and farm produce. (Where are minerals and oil coming from now?)
The tragedy of the baby boomers is just that: they are a generation who elected politicians who passed laws congenial to college students. After all, when 75% of the voting population is under 30 years of age what can you expect.
As the baby boomers come to realize that their lives are built upon a fraud they become more and more embittered seeking to strike out at what they envision as an underhanded conspiracy to deny the world the fruits of the revolution a la The Beatles, Woodstock, et al. Bill Clinton came to power on the Gays in the military platform in order to embarrass those who support the military (mainly Republicans). Water Gate was an ideal platform for those angry with Nixon for getting elected with a landslide victory on a platform against: pot, abortion and the confiscation of wealth (non media wealth) to get even. There is no anti-revolutionary conspiracy. The normal workings of nature is the problem for the baby boomers. Systems put in place over a period of 3000 years temporally over thrown by the young will be subject to the laws of nature which always corrects an imbalance of force.
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You ought to rename this Lonely Liberal Baby Boomers, cause there's a lot of boomers out there who this would not apply to in any fashion.
"Xers", given their first opportunity to vote like a grown-up, ushered Bill Clinton into the White House....twice.
MILF'S ?
I'm a boomer . . . . and I have NO idea what the hell this idiot is talking about.
Gee, they were the first generation ever to be teenagers, rebel against their parents, have kids, have mid-life crises, go through menopause, and have their own parents get old and infirm, and now they're the first to be over the hill. What would we young folks do if we didn't have their lead to follow?
I am also a BOOMER and despise the Stainmaster and his followers .Wake up and smell the coffee .
Guess what when the 1st boomer president Klintoon dies I will stand in line to pee on him at his lying in state.
The b******d was drinking Czech beer the day I received my orders to the SEA War Games.
As far as kerry goes, he should of been brought on war crime charges long ago, calling me a baby killer while i was serving in SEA.
BTW must boomer's I have come across are a waste of protoplasm, whiners, who wanted to be served government cheese.
Now, they are crying cause someone is trying to protect their sorry butts.
This is not correct at all. If you go back to 1992, you'll find that "gays in the military" was never a campaign issue and was never promoted as an important policy by the Clinton campaign.
In what ought to be remembered as one of the most colossal political blunders in recent times, "gays in the military" suddenly became a priority in the first days of the Clinton administration in January of 2003. His popularity ratings immediately fell through the floor -- a disaster that he never recovered from during his first term and was largely responsible for the huge GOP gains in both houses of Congress in 1994.
My, how sweet the air must be on Mt Olympus.
The word 'respect' falls far short of how we all must feel now that the enlightened-ones have left grade school, and are now walking among us.
Yesterday, one almost actually touched me. I remember the first time one addressed by my name.....well, I was just speechless.
:::sigh::: Great Society programs were enacted before any baby boomer could vote. Divorce statistics started to grow before baby boomers were old enough to marry. Check out the ages of the leaders of the feminist movement.
Politicians pandered to Senior citizens, because they VOTE, so while boomers were greater in number, they were not a block of much interest to the politicians.
When I became an adult I was greeted by double digit inflation, high tax rates heading higher, double digit interest rates & double digit unemployment numbers & somehow all of the garbage is the fault of people my age?
Dear Gen X, Y & Z,
Get your nose planted deeper into some history books & do a bit of math about the age people were when things started to turn upside down.
I am beyond tired of getting it from both sides.
I am also a BOOMER and despise the Stainmaster and his followers .Wake up and smell the coffee .
Reagan gave the boomers their first opportunity to elect a decent president since Eisenhower. That's when they finally grew up. As a Gen-X'er, I think my ex-hippy, baby-boomer parents came of age when my generation came into being....well, at least some of the baby boomers did.
AMEN.
Do you have a reference for that? The post-war aged voters were the most opposed to Reagan, and are still the most democratic age-demographic today. Although a slim majority may have swung for Reagain in 1984, President Reagan and both Presidents Bush's were elected in spite of them, not by them.
Though a small sample, my ex-hippy parents are a reference.
Now, could we have a little less generational bashing, please? I do not judge my son's generation by Asley Judd and the slacker at the local mini-mart.
This post ignores all of the patriotic boomers who fought for our nation in Vietnam. Lumping everyone born between 1945 and 19?? together is a terrible mistake. Many of us who are in the baby boomer category are not as the post describes.
Lots of them are right here on FR.
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