[Ol' Sox]

So many Generational discussion participants completely ignore the "Silent Generation" which sits between the Greatest and the Boomers. Folks born between 1925 and 1945 were the kids during WWII and the Great Depression, and their childhoods were greatly influenced by huge government. This generation was largely influential during the '60's, and most of the liberal radicals that are identified in these threads are from this generation. The "Silents" were the Beat generation, the folk singers, the Berkley campus radicals and the parents of the majority of the boomers.

Look at little closer at this generation, and you will find that most of the blame you sling at the Boomers, rightly belongs with the Silents.

[Jeff Chandler]

... the "Silent Generation" which sits between the Greatest and the Boomers. Folks born between 1925 and 1945 were the kids during WWII and the Great Depression, and their childhoods were greatly influenced by huge government. This generation was largely influential during the '60's, and most of the liberal radicals that are identified in these threads are from this generation. The "Silents" were the Beat generation, the folk singers, the Berkley campus radicals and the parents of the majority of the boomers.

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There was even a Time magazine article from 1950 decrying the so called ‘Silent Generation’.

The ‘Silent Generation’ were too young to fight in WWII and too old to fight in Vietnam.

Harry Reid...San Fran Nan... Silent Generation.

[Vermont Lt]

The Silents have always had that chip on their shoulder—their whole lives they have been sucking the dust og the GG.

They never elected a President. They have just wrecked everything.

Read “The Fourth Turning.” I had my wife listen to the audiobook on a long drive. By the time we got home she hated the Silents, was sick of the boomers, and was scared for our Millenial kids.

The study of generational attributes does not suggest a good time between now and 2020.

Sucks to be us.