BTW, Personally I am delighted the Major has stepped up and personally guaranteed that his generation will clean up the mess as soon as the Boomers are out of the way.
Being one of the very last boomers I should still be around to benefit from his success.
I’m an early boomer — almost 60 now —
Oddly, I guess, I never once participated in any of the 60’s/70’s antics. I started working right out of high school — at age 17. While marches against Viet Nam carried on, I was at work. The (older) boss said I was part of the “establishment” which never bothered me at all but was a real insult to some back then.
I recall the march in L.A. against Viet Nam war when Lyndon Johnson was visiting. All dressed up I went over to the site after work just to see what was happening. It was horrifying. I did not relate to my so-called peers at all.
My like-minded friends and I have never felt a part of the typical boomer generation. Always said we were born too late; would have preferred being born in the early forties.
I watched with amusement as many same age people grew up a bit and out of the “hippie” stage and became the great consumers boomers have been known to be for a long time. A few “hippies” remained the same — one is a relative of mine. Always a misfit, a real failure, always on the dole. Pretty pathetic.
So please don’t lump boomers together in any way — everyone had a different experience and it’s unrealistic to talk about boomers as if we are all alike. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Yes, and it is going to be a pretty big mess to clean-up, from the looks of things. Maybe the non-elitist Boomers can pitch in, if they really care. Sadly, I'm not seeing much of that in this thread.