How the baby boomers — not millennials — screwed America

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Every time I hear baby boomers complain about millennials I have to laugh. Who do you think raised millennials?
 
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This is an interesting article that has a different opinion about where our society was and where we are going.
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Wow. Harsh. I always felt the Boomers were too full of pride for their own generation. When I was in 4th grade, I was explained the generational lines by a teacher. She said every few generations, there was one that really changed the culture and advanced things. Since the boomers had done all that for us, our generation would accomplish very little because there was less to do.

I think the reality is that every generation eventually sees the flaws in their parents’ generation while looking back at their grandparents’ generation with fonder eyes. “Look what you destroyed! That was good. Why did you do that?”

I find it very odd that this article portrays boomers as Republicans who weren’t concerned about the environment. That is SO NOT their reputation. The reality is that even that just because you’re a part of the same generation doesn’t mean that you share the same political views.

Do do think the Boomers did credit themselves for a relatively booming economy that they felt had been saved from the mistakes of the generation before them. But I think what is underestimated is that they’ve remained the largest generation with few dependents both ahead of them (their parents generation) and behind them (their children’s generation).

And meanwhile I would say that millennials born in the booming 90s who then experienced the economy crumble experienced a more profound sense of loss than those born before them. Afterall, their childhood normal was quite prosperous compared to decades prior. They don’t seem to get that things weren’t as booming as they were in the 90s and that people did struggle. But the biggest downfall is that as higher paying low skill jobs. They were told to just get more educated. And indeed, this has put younger people in a position where they’re starting out their lives with far more debt than previous generations had, and a greater sense of catastrophe because of how prosperous things were in their childhood. Certainly, they are less prepared than previous generations in terms of finances AND cultural expectation. They did get screwed over.
 
He’s not wrong, though. Not that millenials don’t have their own problems, but baby boomers really screwed the pooch.
 
Member of Generation X here…

There are many articles and even a few books about how the Baby Boomers are the worst generation in American history.

What they did in the 60s and 70s, the negative affect they had on Generation X, and the damage they have done in government in the 21st century is drastic.

Millennials for the most part, are responding to mess the Baby Boomers created.
 
“If I had a dime for every time a baby boomer complained that millennials have wrecked the USA, I could afford a home in the economy they ruined.”
 
I agree. The sixties with the hippies and the sexual revolution and the Marxist leanings and all sorts of nonsense.
 
Its funny how the boomers and the millennials point fingers at each other right past the GenXers.
 
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agree. The sixties with the hippies and the sexual revolution and the Marxist leanings and all sorts of nonsense.
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I guess you didn’t read the article. It’s saying that baby-boomers that vote Republican are the ones responsible for the ruination of this country.
Something that doesn’t get discussed enough is how hostile so many of these boomers are to science. [Climate change deniers] It’s not hard to connect this aversion to facts to some of these disastrous social policies.

This is a generation that is dominated by feelings, not by facts. The irony is that boomers criticize millennials for being snowflakes, [Conservative Republican epithet] for being too driven by feelings. But the boomers are the first big feelings generation. They’re highly motivated by feelings and not persuaded by facts. And you can see this in their policies.

Take this whole fantasy about trickle-down economics. [Reagan, Trump] Maybe it was worth a shot, but it doesn’t work. We know it doesn’t work. The evidence is overwhelming. The experiment is over. And yet they’re still clinging to this dogma, and indeed the latest tax bill is the latest example of that. [Republican]

So if we unseat the boomers from Congress, from state legislatures, and certainly from the presidency over the next three to seven years, then I think we can undo the damage. But that will require a much higher tax rate and a degree of social solidarity that the country hasn’t seen in over 50 years.
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The author should just switch “baby-boomer” for “Republican voters”. That would be far more accurate and honest.
 
2towers said:
Its funny how the boomers and the millennials point fingers at each other right past the GenXers.
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Well… that’s kind of to be expected. A good chuck of the offspring of the early Baby Boomers are part Gen X, so it’s not likely for Baby Boomers to trash the generation they directly raised.

Also Gen X members (esp older ones) are typically much more moderate than both the Baby Boomers and Millennials.

Plus, Gen X is typically considered to be a small generation relative to both the Boomers and Millennials.

Finally, Gen X hasn’t taken the nation over from the Baby Boomers yet, so Gen X can’t be blamed for the current political, economic and social climate the Millennials gripe about.

God Bless
 
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Kei:
agree. The sixties with the hippies and the sexual revolution and the Marxist leanings and all sorts of nonsense.
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I guess you didn’t read the article. It’s saying that baby-boomers that vote Republican are the ones responsible for the ruination of this country.
Something that doesn’t get discussed enough is how hostile so many of these boomers are to science. [Climate change deniers] It’s not hard to connect this aversion to facts to some of these disastrous social policies.

This is a generation that is dominated by feelings, not by facts. The irony is that boomers criticize millennials for being snowflakes, [Conservative Republican epithet] for being too driven by feelings. But the boomers are the first big feelings generation. They’re highly motivated by feelings and not persuaded by facts. And you can see this in their policies.

Take this whole fantasy about trickle-down economics. [Reagan, Trump] Maybe it was worth a shot, but it doesn’t work. We know it doesn’t work. The evidence is overwhelming. The experiment is over. And yet they’re still clinging to this dogma, and indeed the latest tax bill is the latest example of that. [Republican]

So if we unseat the boomers from Congress, from state legislatures, and certainly from the presidency over the next three to seven years, then I think we can undo the damage. But that will require a much higher tax rate and a degree of social solidarity that the country hasn’t seen in over 50 years.
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The author should just switch “baby-boomer” for “Republican voters”. That would be far more accurate and honest.
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Yeah, but that’s just this article. Vox has a far left slant on everything. There are plenty of articles, books, etc that talk about how the Baby Boomers are the worst generation, both on the left and on the right.

It’s also worth noting, that we’ve had two Baby Boomer Democratic Presidents - Clinton*** & Obama and one Baby Boomer Republican: George W. Bush***. Trump*** is now the 2nd Baby Boomer.

***Though all three being born in 1946; Bill Clinton, G.W. Bush and Trump are really borderline between Baby Boomers and the Silent Generation and it can be argued that they belong the Silent Generation instead of the Baby Boomers. But since are all born in the Summer of 1946, 9, 10 and 11 months after the end of World War II, most people would classify them as Baby Boomers since their mothers were all impregnated after the end of the War - not during the War.
 
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And many of them bought into the whole Greed Is Good philosophy.
 
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