Given some of the video I have seen of Boomers at the "No Kings" protests perhaps Trump Derangement Syndrome should be reclassified as a dementia. Certain environmental toxins are now known to have tragic consequences on people's brains; it seems that a lifetime of voting Democrat should be added to the list.
I lived in a 55+ community for a year and these libbie seniors are some of the nastiest people around. The next 5years should cull this herd naturally.
My granddaughter took a sociology course taught be a leftist in high school and when asked her what she learned she said, "I've concluded those that preach tolerance are the most intolerant of all."
I believe it was Thomas Sowell who said, “If the left supports diversity and inclusion, why do faculty in Sociology Departments across the U.S. self-identify over 95% as liberal?”
absolutely true! I have my Master's in Social Work. And I was one of 2 in my class who was a known Republican. I was born w/ a hearing impairment, but in those days hearing aids were of no help, so I self-taught myself to lip read. I positioned myself in class so I could see the instructor the best I could & watch closely to "hear" the best I could. I was at a party & that instructor's son was there & he said his mom was joking about students who tried to get 'on the good side' by sitting close & watching closely.
Another instructor gave me C's. I don't think I deserved C's, but never said a word. Her favorite student always came in at least 10 minutes late & the instructor stopped class & brought her up to date on what she missed. That student always rec'd A's. That instructor gave a party; I went, & started wandering around, looking at some art; I dabbled in art & there was some good art on the walls. Another woman I didn't know approached me, we started talking, found out she was the artist, & lived there, w/ the instructor - they were a couple/gay. The instructor popped her head in & saw us talking at one point. Not a problem. I had a great evening. I got the highest marks in the class for the rest of the year.
I have noticed that too...old dear friends from the 70s have said to me "I can't believe that the Pete I knew 50 years ago would support these *&^%&^%'s". And the culling you mention will be selective. Being in a state of anger & indignation can't help longevity.
Hahahahaha! Too true. They just won't pay ANY attention to anything but ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, and MSNBC. But if you'll notice, CNN is occasionally leaning just a little right. Or they'll disappear. Elon has threatened to buy them out!!
I live in a very large retirement community and the people are overwhelmingly friendly.
I am on the Political Interest Committee and we have equal numbers of Republicans and Democrats and work together very well. We interview all of the local and statewide candidates and post their interviews for all the residents to see.
Doctors are finding that the spike protein from the C-vax infiltrates the brain in a dose-dependent manner. (cf Dr. Peter McCullough) The more shots & boosters, the higher the levels. Once there, 'ol spike can cause 84 different adverse conditions, including dementia, stroke, behavioral changes (i.e. aggression, suicide ideation), and even hallucinations.
Since over 70% of us got the clot shot, most multiple times, it makes sense that people are acting differently now than they did 5 years ago. And it's only going to get worse.
Every time I see something about the vax I am happier that I refused it.
I doubt that it has much to do with the protests, people like that have been around forever and our 'education system' has promoted this sort of idiocy for the last 40 years or more, the I'm a victim, everybody else is racist, whites are oppressors, etcetera fantasies that allow the scammers to gain more power have been poured into society by the leftist politicians, the media, Hollywood and our schools. That is what I believe is making it worse.
That, and the prevalence of social media. We haven't yet reckoned with how that affects people's brains, especially the girls and young women who dominate the genre.
I don't doubt that the Covid maxxine has terrible side effects, but I don't see those effects explaining what we see in these protests. Retarded protests like what we saw last weekend have existed long before the Covid maxxine. Unless previous retarded protests were the product of earlier maxxines, I think we should look for a more proximate cause, most likely social or psychological in nature.
I got two Covid shots in 2021 and since then I have become four years older. If I had known that this was one of the side effects of Covid vaccination I would never have gotten the shot!
I got the first two. In '21. Since then, I have little memory, mini strokes and my peripheral Neuropathy has progressed at such a rate that I've been in a wheelchair for two years. Thanks, you miserable hoax, Fauci.
I agree Chris. I was eleven in 1968. Just a kid but I found all the riots, protests, hippie mentality/ Woodstock, drugs appalling. I especially hated the communist ideology. As seniors they are just pathetic.
Deidre K, you and I are are of the same mind. I was twelve in 1968 and I too found the whole era to be a miserable experience. Later, in 1980, because of the rampant anti-Americanism of my slightly older peers, I broke ranks with my solidly and generationally democrat family when I voted for Reagan and I have never looked back. In the same vein, contrary to the boomer caricature, I smoked marijuana once as an adult at a wedding reception and I never did it again and harder drugs were never even considered by me. Lumping all of us together, monolithically, as "boomers," as if we all have the same habits and attitudes, is not just wrong, it is offensive...The boomers will be remembered as America's Most Selfish Generation, ironically, they are the sons and daughters of America's Greatest Generation.
I'm the same age as you and Diedre, born in '56. I and my friends were not card-burners. We did plenty of naughty stuff- smoking weed, drinking too much alcohol, staying up all night when we should have been studying. I'm still good friends with a lot of them. We are all citizens in good standing today. I'm probably the most right-wing of them, but the rest aren't far behind me. We all voted for Trump.
Me personally, I'm on board with most of his agenda. with the exception of out-of-control government spending. I'm fearful lenders are going to stop lending to our government, Trump will get a black eye, and Democrats will find a path to return to power. If they do we're screwed.
The Federal Reserve is the lender, no need to worry, they will keep the printing presses going - it isn't the lender we need to be concerned about, it is servicing the debt. At this rate, not too long from now, all the taxes they collect will not be enough to pay it back. Then the country collapses.
Yeah, I don't know ... the sense of entitlement just seems to increase every generation. True hardship that generates resolve just isn't common anymore.
Gary…as a Boomer by definition of birth year, I don't believe I have any entitlement to greater largess from our govt. BEYOND the benefits of those programs I was compelled by law to pay into.
One caveat, I retired from the military and receive medical care based on that service time. Most of us that served long enough to retire feel we “paid” for this benefit.
When Congress stops increasing entitlements, some of the damage will be slowed. Your limiting yourself to holding responsible the people asking for more, rather than the people offering more.
I agree that the sixties generation imparted some dopey ideas about societal conduct; like sex and drugs and rock-n-roll. On the other hand, I question whether their parents were really “the greatest generation.” The so-called greatest generation ushered-in the welfare state and degenerate things like Playboy and Playgirl.
Hugh Heffner introduced rampant sex, along with the pill and Lyndon Johnson, the most corrupt president of all time, ushered in the welfare state all by himself to re-enslave the black population.
I’m with you on this Rare Earth, (from the band of the same name of the 60’s?).
I am circa 1955, our conversions to conservatives sound very much the same.
if someone refers to me as a Boomer due to the demographic age cohort that I’m included in, thats fair enough, but if it used as a pejorative because I look like I fit in that age group and that somehow makes me x, x, and/or x, that person automatically loses any respect and reciprocity I may otherwise offer.
For those of that ilk…please consider this Boomer advice; just because you have a man bun, that doesn't make you a man. But Im ready to assume your are one, until you prove your not.
1956 here. While technically a "Boomer," I'm also "Generation Jones." First came across that term a few years ago. I think it explains much, referring to those born in the later stages of the "Boomer" generation and their very different experiences (and so outlooks).
The quintessential "Boomers" came of age (high school / college) in the 1950's and early 1960's. The era of optimism and widely distributed rising prosperity. That (arguably) came to an end with the JFK assassination and the end of "The New Frontier" - and the societal temper tantrum that the quintessential Boomers then engaged in.
Conversely, we in Generation Jones came of age in the Vietnam defeat, Watergate, inflation, gas crises and Iran hostages era. Hence, our view of government and economics (and the economic opportunities, or lack thereof) were shaped very, very differently. (And, I would argue, more realistically.)
Tom W…an interesting premise that seems correct. my older brother was born during WWII, me in ‘55. our view of politics could hardly be more different. he is the very definition of an old hippie that “dropped out” in the early 70’s
My dad was born in 1918, my grandfather in the century before. my formative years were enriched beyond estimable value by their mentoring. I feel sorry that so much of what I learned that shaped my young life is unknown or deemed of no use by younger people.
I am ‘64, my mom was ‘29, and my dad ‘23; but all my grands were late 1800’s and were all gone by the time I was 13. Lost one great uncle in WW1. One went when my mom was 12. Learned so much from the older family members, even while not really paying them much attention as a child. Sure wish I could today! Was fortunate to have my youngest uncle around until a couple years ago, even though it was not often we talked. Am 💯 on the point of most of what I learned and shaped me early, like you, is unknown today, or deemed useless or a waste today, sadly.
>> I feel sorry that so much of what I learned that shaped my young life is unknown or deemed of no use by younger people.
Ditto.
Funny coincidence - my father was born in 1917. Career Navy, served in WWII. My older brother was born in 1944 ... was Conservative but now flipped big time. I think his kids and wife flipped him. Alas, like many families since Trump came on the scene, we haven't spoken in years (he and his wife voted for Hillary, and now I'm shunned).
It’s a shame that some peeps are willing to let their political views broach the special relationship between parent-child, and siblings. I hope you can reconcile.
1961, here. Your description of how I feel when I’m accused of being a Boomer is spot on. I’m honestly shocked how naive my older cohorts (if I have to be lumped in with them) appear to be to what dismal failures their ideas have led many of them to become.
‘64, late November. Missing genX by couple months. Definitely generation Jones, which I just did learn about. My parents agreed (silent gen and greatest gen) that the ‘50’s were the high tide and things started sliding downhill after that. Was very times than the early boomers, that is for sure. Agree it was closer to reality. And there were no huge protests movements in my smaller area; more focused on the gas crisis, Carter’s bumbling, Iran, etc.
I'm a very young boomer and since most of my life experience (except for baby and preschool years) were more of a Gen X life experience, I just say I'm Gen X "before it's time". I'll look up this "Generation Jones".
Less than two months from being a gen x-er lol. Yes not fully one of the other. Kinda used to it by now, but I do enjoy listening to both and putting my two cents in, lol.
I agree! It may be they are just physically repulsive naturally but the anger and bloody frothing make them look worse (I am a Boomer and wouldn’t be caught dead howling at the moon)
There are attractive seniors. Just because you are a certain age doesn't mean you are not attractive. I see how the younger people look at them. Not with the same respect as I looked at my grandparents and other adults when I was growing up.
I spoke with a Boomer who partook in the Haight-Asbury summer of love lifestyle. I asked her why she thought that after those decades the use of some of the drugs dropped off so much. She said it was probably because 20% of her friends of the era died or had debilitating mental health consequences.
This is most certainly true. They are the tenured folks at colleges and universities - they have way too much power over grants written and curricula nonsense. Their goal is to grow up to be pres of an Ivy League indoctrination camp with way too much mid east money flowing in (with strings).
Interesting I hear gen x proclaim that often, which I am not disagreeing with but much of what they claim was also true of the late boomers like me. I shake my head because it was not like they were the only ones. The confusion about the critics of the boomer generation is that it was the hippie, protestor, extremist violent agitators that get all the attention for the largest generation. They were the loudest, the most obnoxious, the most self aggrandizing, self righteous. Claiming the end of the Vietnam war made them feel the only righteous folks. But the boomers were large numbers. And like today the far left make all democrats look crazy.
Toughen up Mary is something I have been saying for years.
Saying “boomers” is a lot like saying: “women”, or “blacks” or “southerners”. It’s divisive, stereotypical and lazy. It promotes group-think, and unnecessary conflict, to gain political advantage. It doesn’t help define issues, or formulate solutions. It is part of the great distraction / misdirection machine we call “politics” (at which the democrats are so good and practiced).
I don’t recall the so called “founding fathers” using packaged generational terms; they were pretty focused on actual issues and specific goals.
As for Kings, they can be good or bad, just like democracies, which have the potential to be more destructive than kings, because of the nature of large political parties.
Just came off a few comment threads of a few articles here, where by poster one zillion, all have agreed boomers destroyed any hope of a better future. Group think at its finest.
I'm 68, and the longer I'm alive the more I believe we have been lied to about everything. As far back as the Civil rights movement I can see how we were manipulated and fed propaganda to believe we actually needed the Civil rights movement. We didn't. The politics and reality were very different. I was in elementary school and I could see reality did not match what the TV said. People and communities were changing and they didn't need government for that to happen. When DEI was introduced and adopted by corporations, healthcare, law enforcement, the post office, etc. I realized the civil rights act was meaningless. It never meant anything. Of course I see this in hind sight. The plandemic was a blessing. It was my second awakening. Of course, it's sad to now question what I thought was true. It amazes me how boomers can still believe such nonsense.
Very interesting! Looking back I see the wisdom of your comment. I grew up in a small podunk town. We had a few black families. A local minister spearheaded an effort to adopt Korean War orphans and we had quite a number of Korean and Korean-American bi racial children in our classes.
There was little if any bigotry or hateful speech or action toward non-white children. I would say none but of course it might have happened I just never saw it.
People were already rejecting the racial bigotry of the past. New laws were not necessary and spawned the bigoted DEI and Affirmative Action totalitarianism.
As a child of the mid/late 80s, I have always assumed the Civil Rights Movement was necessary, so it’s crazy (but logical) to think that perhaps the tides were already turning, or had turned.
I do tend to think that Martin Luther King Jr.’s quote, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice,” speaks to humanity’s natural inclination to move toward progress — without government intervention.
Of course it makes sense that the same type of political influence/propaganda that is used by political parties today would have been used half a century ago as well. Until now, I hadn’t ever really considered it, though. If we’re divided and disgruntled, we’re distracted.
As a boomer who stood on the sidelines of the fantasy that anarchy would bring more love and peace in 60s, and 70s, I agree wholeheartedly with your article! Easy to see through the "fantasy" of The No Kings demonstrations ...but this bunch has always believed if they said it enough times and had msm say it enough it "must be true...".
I see that same fantasy to go back to protest days as they hold "resist" signs...seriously...? You are mostly retired so what are you resisting? Stop resisting your irrelevance and make your time relevant...still lots to do !
Boomers give up power reluctantly, including the self-delusion that they know better than anyone else. Probably a carryover from our college days when we read too much Foucault (!). Regardless, younger minds must take over, and banning onions and scratchy blankets shows they see through the madness of their elders
I am so feeling this right now. My dad is a boomer with terrible TDS. He printed out (already a boomer going to do) a Garrison Keillor Substack for me to read about the murder of the Democrats in Minnesota (where we live) and it essentially ends with a statement about how those of us who voted for Trump are complicit in the murders. I'm still floored. Insane.
I left Garrison in the run up to the election and his response to it. He has TDS very bad. I listen now only to his CDs and Lake Woebegone stories, but have ceased on listening to his current stuff.
I’m one of those boomers age wise but I’ve always eschewed group think. I live in deep blue Portland Oregon and for various reasons I’m stuck here. (And I could sure use some sane people to hang out with!!!) There are two groups, maybe three. 1) The Boomers who consume MSM like the holy Gospel and they are distraught to various degrees. Some are really terrified and others who just go along with the trend. (These used to be my friends. Now I have no friends because being old sucks bad enough and I need sane friends!) 2) There are the confused young far left alphabet kids who believe their craziness is the future. And 3) There are the smaller group, also young, that wait for nightfall to set the place on fire. This is ‘Antifa’, formerly known as the Anarchists. They simply want Anarchy and are allowed to do a whole bunch of damage for which the taxpayers pick up the tab. (They aren’t getting away with it quite like they did in 2020, but still bad enough.) These are crazy times. Really crazy. It’s a great time to be old!
Rita I feel your pain. I moved to Portland for college and stayed 50 years. It has gone from the Rose City to a crime infested, open air drug market and homeless camp.
I was blessed to have a small cadre of like minded friends met through a Dennis Prager meet up group. We’ve almost all left Portland. I moved back to my hometown of LaGrande. Others moved to Montana, Idaho, South Dakota and Texas. Maybe see if there is a meet up group of normal people. They do exist!
I get frosted by claims that Antifa is just in the imagination. I have literally faced off against them as they skateboarded toward me. I didn’t blink and they spun out of my path. I saw Antifa and its ilk destroy businesses, set police and government buildings and Ted Wheeler’s condo on fire. They are demonic.
Tapestrygarden, Thank you for your comment! Actually, so far this summer (long way to go) the ‘protest riots’ have been pretty subdued compared to 2020. I think maybe Antifa is spread a little thin what with L.A. and Seattle. Also, the current riot was specific to the ICE headquarters in PDX so it was the Feds, not local police, who were dealing with it so they weren’t so lenient. What do you think the right Meet Up group would be called, ‘Normal People’ or ‘Common Sense Folks’ ?? 😊
I am sure I am not the only one to point this out but the additional irony of course is that the democrats acted like "kings" for the later part of Biden's term. They were hiding our president so we couldn't see what was actually going on, allowing millions of serfdom into the country unchecked, anointed a successor that no one had voted for in a primary, followed by the liberal aristocratic class shower her with wasted cash
Not to mention the complete suspension of the Bill of Rights in the name of "COVID". Many of us knew years ago that the jab did not prevent infection OR transmission, masks didn't work, the 6-foot rule was ludicrous and liquor stores were not "essential". I would venture to say that most of the "No Kings" group were quite willing to have Fauci as king to rule over their lives, causing massive destruction to our economic, social and moral fabric.
That same generation has screwed so many other countries, including Germany, France, Spain Canada and UK. They have somehow engraved deep in their minds that the left is better, regardless of policies, results, economic mayhem or any other fact based conclusion.
If it has anything to do with Trump the Dems will find takers. May be these protestors have a part time job protesting. Remember BLM? Another excuse to burn buildings and bitch. If Trump obtained world peace and prosperity there would be protestors.
Given some of the video I have seen of Boomers at the "No Kings" protests perhaps Trump Derangement Syndrome should be reclassified as a dementia. Certain environmental toxins are now known to have tragic consequences on people's brains; it seems that a lifetime of voting Democrat should be added to the list.
I lived in a 55+ community for a year and these libbie seniors are some of the nastiest people around. The next 5years should cull this herd naturally.
My granddaughter took a sociology course taught be a leftist in high school and when asked her what she learned she said, "I've concluded those that preach tolerance are the most intolerant of all."
Yep. And those who preach against racism are often are the most racist. 🤷♂️
Smart girl. 👍
Reassuring
I believe it was Thomas Sowell who said, “If the left supports diversity and inclusion, why do faculty in Sociology Departments across the U.S. self-identify over 95% as liberal?”
absolutely true! I have my Master's in Social Work. And I was one of 2 in my class who was a known Republican. I was born w/ a hearing impairment, but in those days hearing aids were of no help, so I self-taught myself to lip read. I positioned myself in class so I could see the instructor the best I could & watch closely to "hear" the best I could. I was at a party & that instructor's son was there & he said his mom was joking about students who tried to get 'on the good side' by sitting close & watching closely.
Another instructor gave me C's. I don't think I deserved C's, but never said a word. Her favorite student always came in at least 10 minutes late & the instructor stopped class & brought her up to date on what she missed. That student always rec'd A's. That instructor gave a party; I went, & started wandering around, looking at some art; I dabbled in art & there was some good art on the walls. Another woman I didn't know approached me, we started talking, found out she was the artist, & lived there, w/ the instructor - they were a couple/gay. The instructor popped her head in & saw us talking at one point. Not a problem. I had a great evening. I got the highest marks in the class for the rest of the year.
Social Workers are very tolerant - yeah, right.
Smart girl!
Sociology is not a science, or a real study, it is always and always what the libs want it to be. Trash.
I have noticed that too...old dear friends from the 70s have said to me "I can't believe that the Pete I knew 50 years ago would support these *&^%&^%'s". And the culling you mention will be selective. Being in a state of anger & indignation can't help longevity.
Smile ... most of that cohort is vaxxed and boosted. They have willfully acellerated their own demise.
Hahahahaha! Too true. They just won't pay ANY attention to anything but ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, and MSNBC. But if you'll notice, CNN is occasionally leaning just a little right. Or they'll disappear. Elon has threatened to buy them out!!
I live in a very large retirement community and the people are overwhelmingly friendly.
I am on the Political Interest Committee and we have equal numbers of Republicans and Democrats and work together very well. We interview all of the local and statewide candidates and post their interviews for all the residents to see.
Aging hipsters🙄
yeah they are pretty brutal. they broke the planet and are willing to believe anything that makes them seem like the saviors.
If you count post Vax deaths, it may be a massive loss of life.
You cannot reason with a demoralized person. TDS is terminal in the No Kings crowd. Grifters on Trump Derangement Substacks are making millions stoking hysteria in their mentally ill readers: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/trump-derangement-substack-correspondents-dinner
Doctors are finding that the spike protein from the C-vax infiltrates the brain in a dose-dependent manner. (cf Dr. Peter McCullough) The more shots & boosters, the higher the levels. Once there, 'ol spike can cause 84 different adverse conditions, including dementia, stroke, behavioral changes (i.e. aggression, suicide ideation), and even hallucinations.
Since over 70% of us got the clot shot, most multiple times, it makes sense that people are acting differently now than they did 5 years ago. And it's only going to get worse.
Every time I see something about the vax I am happier that I refused it.
I doubt that it has much to do with the protests, people like that have been around forever and our 'education system' has promoted this sort of idiocy for the last 40 years or more, the I'm a victim, everybody else is racist, whites are oppressors, etcetera fantasies that allow the scammers to gain more power have been poured into society by the leftist politicians, the media, Hollywood and our schools. That is what I believe is making it worse.
That, and the prevalence of social media. We haven't yet reckoned with how that affects people's brains, especially the girls and young women who dominate the genre.
I don't doubt that the Covid maxxine has terrible side effects, but I don't see those effects explaining what we see in these protests. Retarded protests like what we saw last weekend have existed long before the Covid maxxine. Unless previous retarded protests were the product of earlier maxxines, I think we should look for a more proximate cause, most likely social or psychological in nature.
I got two Covid shots in 2021 and since then I have become four years older. If I had known that this was one of the side effects of Covid vaccination I would never have gotten the shot!
I got the first two. In '21. Since then, I have little memory, mini strokes and my peripheral Neuropathy has progressed at such a rate that I've been in a wheelchair for two years. Thanks, you miserable hoax, Fauci.
It's the vaxes!
Oh my heavens I am howling at the responses! And I’m a Boomer.
If I weren't a monarchist before, these protests would have done a great deal in turning me into one.
Thats brilliant!! Well said
Spare us your identity politics, sonny. Trump himself is a Boomer.
I believe you have a point my friend
Ditto.
I agree Chris. I was eleven in 1968. Just a kid but I found all the riots, protests, hippie mentality/ Woodstock, drugs appalling. I especially hated the communist ideology. As seniors they are just pathetic.
Deidre K, you and I are are of the same mind. I was twelve in 1968 and I too found the whole era to be a miserable experience. Later, in 1980, because of the rampant anti-Americanism of my slightly older peers, I broke ranks with my solidly and generationally democrat family when I voted for Reagan and I have never looked back. In the same vein, contrary to the boomer caricature, I smoked marijuana once as an adult at a wedding reception and I never did it again and harder drugs were never even considered by me. Lumping all of us together, monolithically, as "boomers," as if we all have the same habits and attitudes, is not just wrong, it is offensive...The boomers will be remembered as America's Most Selfish Generation, ironically, they are the sons and daughters of America's Greatest Generation.
I'm the same age as you and Diedre, born in '56. I and my friends were not card-burners. We did plenty of naughty stuff- smoking weed, drinking too much alcohol, staying up all night when we should have been studying. I'm still good friends with a lot of them. We are all citizens in good standing today. I'm probably the most right-wing of them, but the rest aren't far behind me. We all voted for Trump.
Me personally, I'm on board with most of his agenda. with the exception of out-of-control government spending. I'm fearful lenders are going to stop lending to our government, Trump will get a black eye, and Democrats will find a path to return to power. If they do we're screwed.
The Federal Reserve is the lender, no need to worry, they will keep the printing presses going - it isn't the lender we need to be concerned about, it is servicing the debt. At this rate, not too long from now, all the taxes they collect will not be enough to pay it back. Then the country collapses.
Yeah, I don't know ... the sense of entitlement just seems to increase every generation. True hardship that generates resolve just isn't common anymore.
Gary…as a Boomer by definition of birth year, I don't believe I have any entitlement to greater largess from our govt. BEYOND the benefits of those programs I was compelled by law to pay into.
One caveat, I retired from the military and receive medical care based on that service time. Most of us that served long enough to retire feel we “paid” for this benefit.
When Congress stops increasing entitlements, some of the damage will be slowed. Your limiting yourself to holding responsible the people asking for more, rather than the people offering more.
I agree that the sixties generation imparted some dopey ideas about societal conduct; like sex and drugs and rock-n-roll. On the other hand, I question whether their parents were really “the greatest generation.” The so-called greatest generation ushered-in the welfare state and degenerate things like Playboy and Playgirl.
Hugh Heffner introduced rampant sex, along with the pill and Lyndon Johnson, the most corrupt president of all time, ushered in the welfare state all by himself to re-enslave the black population.
Woodrow Wilson could be considered most corrupt, considering how he really enslaved blacks.
I’m with you on this Rare Earth, (from the band of the same name of the 60’s?).
I am circa 1955, our conversions to conservatives sound very much the same.
if someone refers to me as a Boomer due to the demographic age cohort that I’m included in, thats fair enough, but if it used as a pejorative because I look like I fit in that age group and that somehow makes me x, x, and/or x, that person automatically loses any respect and reciprocity I may otherwise offer.
For those of that ilk…please consider this Boomer advice; just because you have a man bun, that doesn't make you a man. But Im ready to assume your are one, until you prove your not.
1956 here. While technically a "Boomer," I'm also "Generation Jones." First came across that term a few years ago. I think it explains much, referring to those born in the later stages of the "Boomer" generation and their very different experiences (and so outlooks).
The quintessential "Boomers" came of age (high school / college) in the 1950's and early 1960's. The era of optimism and widely distributed rising prosperity. That (arguably) came to an end with the JFK assassination and the end of "The New Frontier" - and the societal temper tantrum that the quintessential Boomers then engaged in.
Conversely, we in Generation Jones came of age in the Vietnam defeat, Watergate, inflation, gas crises and Iran hostages era. Hence, our view of government and economics (and the economic opportunities, or lack thereof) were shaped very, very differently. (And, I would argue, more realistically.)
Tom W…an interesting premise that seems correct. my older brother was born during WWII, me in ‘55. our view of politics could hardly be more different. he is the very definition of an old hippie that “dropped out” in the early 70’s
My dad was born in 1918, my grandfather in the century before. my formative years were enriched beyond estimable value by their mentoring. I feel sorry that so much of what I learned that shaped my young life is unknown or deemed of no use by younger people.
I am ‘64, my mom was ‘29, and my dad ‘23; but all my grands were late 1800’s and were all gone by the time I was 13. Lost one great uncle in WW1. One went when my mom was 12. Learned so much from the older family members, even while not really paying them much attention as a child. Sure wish I could today! Was fortunate to have my youngest uncle around until a couple years ago, even though it was not often we talked. Am 💯 on the point of most of what I learned and shaped me early, like you, is unknown today, or deemed useless or a waste today, sadly.
>> I feel sorry that so much of what I learned that shaped my young life is unknown or deemed of no use by younger people.
Ditto.
Funny coincidence - my father was born in 1917. Career Navy, served in WWII. My older brother was born in 1944 ... was Conservative but now flipped big time. I think his kids and wife flipped him. Alas, like many families since Trump came on the scene, we haven't spoken in years (he and his wife voted for Hillary, and now I'm shunned).
It's really hard at my holiday dinners, too. How long can you talk about the weather?
It’s a shame that some peeps are willing to let their political views broach the special relationship between parent-child, and siblings. I hope you can reconcile.
1961, here. Your description of how I feel when I’m accused of being a Boomer is spot on. I’m honestly shocked how naive my older cohorts (if I have to be lumped in with them) appear to be to what dismal failures their ideas have led many of them to become.
Born in '62. I've heard "boomers" go thru '64, but I'm more of a "Generation Jones" guy
No worries. According to this you / we are solidly Generation Jones. ;-)
https://marketbusinessnews.com/financial-glossary/generation-jones/
Thanks for posting this link.
I never felt I had much in common with people born in the late '40s/early '50s. Splitting the Boomers/Jonses in the mid 1950s makes lots of sense.
‘64, late November. Missing genX by couple months. Definitely generation Jones, which I just did learn about. My parents agreed (silent gen and greatest gen) that the ‘50’s were the high tide and things started sliding downhill after that. Was very times than the early boomers, that is for sure. Agree it was closer to reality. And there were no huge protests movements in my smaller area; more focused on the gas crisis, Carter’s bumbling, Iran, etc.
I'm a very young boomer and since most of my life experience (except for baby and preschool years) were more of a Gen X life experience, I just say I'm Gen X "before it's time". I'll look up this "Generation Jones".
When my adult kids say "OK Boomer." I say "OK Boomer daughter or Boomer son" depending who I am talking to. Shuts them up. 😂
Better a boomer than a snowflake
Agree 💯
Does that work now! *scribbles furiously, taking notes for discussion points with both gen z sons* 😃
Hahaha 😂 it does. They don't have a reply.
Me, too. Caught between the generations. Not quite one but nit quite the other.
Less than two months from being a gen x-er lol. Yes not fully one of the other. Kinda used to it by now, but I do enjoy listening to both and putting my two cents in, lol.
Everybody is different. Or as one of my engineer friends was fond of saying, "Everybody is stupid, just concerning different things."
Most people look at these self indulged, delusional and very unattractive seniors and cringe. No one wants to be them. The optics are bad.
I agree! It may be they are just physically repulsive naturally but the anger and bloody frothing make them look worse (I am a Boomer and wouldn’t be caught dead howling at the moon)
Agree. It's a shame. I respected my elders growing up. I raised my children the same way.
You sound like a real beauty Annie
There are attractive seniors. Just because you are a certain age doesn't mean you are not attractive. I see how the younger people look at them. Not with the same respect as I looked at my grandparents and other adults when I was growing up.
I spoke with a Boomer who partook in the Haight-Asbury summer of love lifestyle. I asked her why she thought that after those decades the use of some of the drugs dropped off so much. She said it was probably because 20% of her friends of the era died or had debilitating mental health consequences.
A good portion of those with debilitating mental health consequences went into academia.
... or government.
This is most certainly true. They are the tenured folks at colleges and universities - they have way too much power over grants written and curricula nonsense. Their goal is to grow up to be pres of an Ivy League indoctrination camp with way too much mid east money flowing in (with strings).
Ditto. Repulsive ego stroking nonsense.
What fantasies does the 1968 generation have? I am generation X. I thought we were the realists.
Interesting I hear gen x proclaim that often, which I am not disagreeing with but much of what they claim was also true of the late boomers like me. I shake my head because it was not like they were the only ones. The confusion about the critics of the boomer generation is that it was the hippie, protestor, extremist violent agitators that get all the attention for the largest generation. They were the loudest, the most obnoxious, the most self aggrandizing, self righteous. Claiming the end of the Vietnam war made them feel the only righteous folks. But the boomers were large numbers. And like today the far left make all democrats look crazy.
Toughen up Mary is something I have been saying for years.
It's not the boomers. it's some boomers. Just like it's some of every generation.
True. Rush Limbaugh was a Boomer.
I prefer to call myself a “Rusher.”
me too, I miss him. despite our riches of right-wing commentary, still, no-one even close.
Why must you call yourself anything? Why do you need a specific label, that limits you, and artificially frames everything that you then say?
Why not just say the Dems, Marxists, Muslims are right about this, but not about those things?
It was a joke.
Saying “boomers” is a lot like saying: “women”, or “blacks” or “southerners”. It’s divisive, stereotypical and lazy. It promotes group-think, and unnecessary conflict, to gain political advantage. It doesn’t help define issues, or formulate solutions. It is part of the great distraction / misdirection machine we call “politics” (at which the democrats are so good and practiced).
I don’t recall the so called “founding fathers” using packaged generational terms; they were pretty focused on actual issues and specific goals.
As for Kings, they can be good or bad, just like democracies, which have the potential to be more destructive than kings, because of the nature of large political parties.
Absolutely. Alarms should go off in anybody's mind when they hear stereotypical references based on race, gender, income, or anything else.
Just came off a few comment threads of a few articles here, where by poster one zillion, all have agreed boomers destroyed any hope of a better future. Group think at its finest.
Yet they'll tell you they support 'diversity' and condemn divisiveness.
I'm 68, and the longer I'm alive the more I believe we have been lied to about everything. As far back as the Civil rights movement I can see how we were manipulated and fed propaganda to believe we actually needed the Civil rights movement. We didn't. The politics and reality were very different. I was in elementary school and I could see reality did not match what the TV said. People and communities were changing and they didn't need government for that to happen. When DEI was introduced and adopted by corporations, healthcare, law enforcement, the post office, etc. I realized the civil rights act was meaningless. It never meant anything. Of course I see this in hind sight. The plandemic was a blessing. It was my second awakening. Of course, it's sad to now question what I thought was true. It amazes me how boomers can still believe such nonsense.
Very interesting! Looking back I see the wisdom of your comment. I grew up in a small podunk town. We had a few black families. A local minister spearheaded an effort to adopt Korean War orphans and we had quite a number of Korean and Korean-American bi racial children in our classes.
There was little if any bigotry or hateful speech or action toward non-white children. I would say none but of course it might have happened I just never saw it.
People were already rejecting the racial bigotry of the past. New laws were not necessary and spawned the bigoted DEI and Affirmative Action totalitarianism.
We were lied to.
As a child of the mid/late 80s, I have always assumed the Civil Rights Movement was necessary, so it’s crazy (but logical) to think that perhaps the tides were already turning, or had turned.
I do tend to think that Martin Luther King Jr.’s quote, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice,” speaks to humanity’s natural inclination to move toward progress — without government intervention.
Of course it makes sense that the same type of political influence/propaganda that is used by political parties today would have been used half a century ago as well. Until now, I hadn’t ever really considered it, though. If we’re divided and disgruntled, we’re distracted.
It’s always been about control.
60 and have came to similar conclusions.
As a boomer who stood on the sidelines of the fantasy that anarchy would bring more love and peace in 60s, and 70s, I agree wholeheartedly with your article! Easy to see through the "fantasy" of The No Kings demonstrations ...but this bunch has always believed if they said it enough times and had msm say it enough it "must be true...".
I see that same fantasy to go back to protest days as they hold "resist" signs...seriously...? You are mostly retired so what are you resisting? Stop resisting your irrelevance and make your time relevant...still lots to do !
That was my thought! I am Boomer, semi retired, community and church volunteer. There is plenty to do. So quit waving signs and step up.
Agree!
Careful of painting with a too broad brush on slamming “boomers”. This boomer has voted “R”longer than many of you have been alive.
Ditto, sez this ol' fart from 1947.
Boomers give up power reluctantly, including the self-delusion that they know better than anyone else. Probably a carryover from our college days when we read too much Foucault (!). Regardless, younger minds must take over, and banning onions and scratchy blankets shows they see through the madness of their elders
As a child of the Summer of Love, I can empirically report that my hippie parents are just as stupid and narcissistic today as they were then.
I am so feeling this right now. My dad is a boomer with terrible TDS. He printed out (already a boomer going to do) a Garrison Keillor Substack for me to read about the murder of the Democrats in Minnesota (where we live) and it essentially ends with a statement about how those of us who voted for Trump are complicit in the murders. I'm still floored. Insane.
Is Keillor still a "thing"? Why doesn't he just go for a long swim in Lake Wobegon ...
I left Garrison in the run up to the election and his response to it. He has TDS very bad. I listen now only to his CDs and Lake Woebegone stories, but have ceased on listening to his current stuff.
Is Garrisons Substack acct publicly funded?
I’m one of those boomers age wise but I’ve always eschewed group think. I live in deep blue Portland Oregon and for various reasons I’m stuck here. (And I could sure use some sane people to hang out with!!!) There are two groups, maybe three. 1) The Boomers who consume MSM like the holy Gospel and they are distraught to various degrees. Some are really terrified and others who just go along with the trend. (These used to be my friends. Now I have no friends because being old sucks bad enough and I need sane friends!) 2) There are the confused young far left alphabet kids who believe their craziness is the future. And 3) There are the smaller group, also young, that wait for nightfall to set the place on fire. This is ‘Antifa’, formerly known as the Anarchists. They simply want Anarchy and are allowed to do a whole bunch of damage for which the taxpayers pick up the tab. (They aren’t getting away with it quite like they did in 2020, but still bad enough.) These are crazy times. Really crazy. It’s a great time to be old!
Rita I feel your pain. I moved to Portland for college and stayed 50 years. It has gone from the Rose City to a crime infested, open air drug market and homeless camp.
I was blessed to have a small cadre of like minded friends met through a Dennis Prager meet up group. We’ve almost all left Portland. I moved back to my hometown of LaGrande. Others moved to Montana, Idaho, South Dakota and Texas. Maybe see if there is a meet up group of normal people. They do exist!
I get frosted by claims that Antifa is just in the imagination. I have literally faced off against them as they skateboarded toward me. I didn’t blink and they spun out of my path. I saw Antifa and its ilk destroy businesses, set police and government buildings and Ted Wheeler’s condo on fire. They are demonic.
Tapestrygarden, Thank you for your comment! Actually, so far this summer (long way to go) the ‘protest riots’ have been pretty subdued compared to 2020. I think maybe Antifa is spread a little thin what with L.A. and Seattle. Also, the current riot was specific to the ICE headquarters in PDX so it was the Feds, not local police, who were dealing with it so they weren’t so lenient. What do you think the right Meet Up group would be called, ‘Normal People’ or ‘Common Sense Folks’ ?? 😊
I am sure I am not the only one to point this out but the additional irony of course is that the democrats acted like "kings" for the later part of Biden's term. They were hiding our president so we couldn't see what was actually going on, allowing millions of serfdom into the country unchecked, anointed a successor that no one had voted for in a primary, followed by the liberal aristocratic class shower her with wasted cash
Not to mention the complete suspension of the Bill of Rights in the name of "COVID". Many of us knew years ago that the jab did not prevent infection OR transmission, masks didn't work, the 6-foot rule was ludicrous and liquor stores were not "essential". I would venture to say that most of the "No Kings" group were quite willing to have Fauci as king to rule over their lives, causing massive destruction to our economic, social and moral fabric.
I could get behind 'Ban Onions' but only raw onions and only sometimes.
It makes sense that Boomers would be driving this. The left's narrative about Trump is being driven primarily by TV MSM news.
The average MSM TV news consumer is on Medicare.
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These Boomers are quickly aging out of life; and the fully vaccinated NPC's are hot on their trail. Patience cures most ills.
That same generation has screwed so many other countries, including Germany, France, Spain Canada and UK. They have somehow engraved deep in their minds that the left is better, regardless of policies, results, economic mayhem or any other fact based conclusion.
If it has anything to do with Trump the Dems will find takers. May be these protestors have a part time job protesting. Remember BLM? Another excuse to burn buildings and bitch. If Trump obtained world peace and prosperity there would be protestors.