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What generation has watched this country slide into socialism in the past 50 years? What generation has ignored the communists/anti Americans still in the State Department and elsewhere in the government who are tearing this administration down? Who are the folks who watch as Hollywood soils America's morality daily? What is the age group of politicians who do little or nothing to stand by the Founding Fathers' basics?

Boomers.

"What generation has watched this country slide into socialism in the past 50 years?"

Fifty years ago the oldest Baby Boomer was ten years old. Most hadn't been born yet. Forty years ago the oldest was twenty, and the youngest was one year old. The overwhelming majority were not of voting age in 1966. Thirty years ago the oldest was thirty, and the youngest was twelve. More than half were still under the age of eighteen, not even voting age, until the end of 1973. They weren't the politicians or the bureaucrats or the judges of the 60's and 70's. They weren't running our businesses. They weren't the important political thinkers. They weren't even that important as voters because young Boomers were no better than your generation or mine about voting. They've become increasingly more powerful through the eighties and nineties up until today. Now they are really starting to take the reins in this country. Most are actually still fifty and younger. The youngest is forty-one and the oldest is sixty. They're hitting their prime voting years. Soon they'll be the majority in both the Congress and the Senate. Sooner or later they'll become the majority in the Supreme Court. They'll be the elders running this country.

Probably most of what Baby Boomers are blamed for or given credit for, depending on the particular issue and how you look at it, really was done by people older than them. Now though is the time that the Boomers will really have their impact as leaders in this country. Now, and really probably for the next couple of decades, is the time when Baby Boomers are going to be running this country, setting policy, writing the laws, running big business, and so on. Maybe we should withhold judgment until we see how they handle it. All this Boomer bashing and blaming them for things they didn't do is neither fair, nor is it based in reality. The Boomer bashers on these forums need to check their facts. The more you dig, the more you will find that things blamed on Boomers from the sixties and seventies and even more recent times were in many if not most cases things done mostly by people born prior to 1946. The Boomers are getting a bum rap.