You know, instead of just mouthing your opinions, why don’t you back up your statements with actual facts. You are starting to sound like the Obama supporters: no substance to what you say.
Not only did we not start it but I don’t even believe MOST took the ball. The term Boomers is really a marketing term anyway and to even try and say that everyone born in the U.S. between the years 1946 and 1964 are somehow corporately responsible for “taking the ball” shows just how simpleminded you are being. For instance, take a woman born in Alabama in 1946 and compare her to a woman born in 1960 Los Angeles. How similar do you think they’d be in almost anything?
It’s patently ridiculous. Again, a marketing ploy. Sure, I think there are a host of cultural things that many of us can rhapsodize nostalgically over - for me these are things like roller skating; The Little Rascals; living in a time when the door was not locked at night; eating supper together as a family with no television allowed; thinking a TV Dinner was cool... I could go on and on. However, these are not deep philosophical or spiritual things that inform our ideals.
For every bra-burning, Woodstock attending, LSD-dropping person from this period, I bet I could find 10 to 1 who didn’t participate in any of this nonsense. And not only that, I would submit to you that many, many people that did these things were born in the 30’s and using this time as an excuse to do crazy things.
Do you think the 20’s were sedate? Do you think the stuff Poe, Shelly, Byron and their crowd were sedate? Be honest sir.
Good lord, if it is 10-to-1 in favor of the good guys, so to speak, why is the 1 whipping the collective butts of the 10? There is a small group of boomers that have an incredible amount of clout with the rest of the country, at least from what you're saying.
As for differences between individuals, of course these exist. But the bigger picture is that this is no longer a right-leaning country, with the main reason being that the WWII generation is dying off. The boomers are much more left-leaning, generally speaking, otherwise we wouldn't be drifting off course the way that we are. The WWII generation isn't around anymore to at least warn their kids off from the bad that can come from many of the liberal policies that many boomers worship. Sadly, many boomers are still having the battle with their parents that should have ended when they reached adulthood and got out in the real world. Instead of seeing the world through wiser eyes, there are too many boomers that still think they can change the world to some sort of leftist Utopia.
And one more thing - the battle between generations, at least in the larger sense, didn't truly become such until the boomers came along. They are too quick to dismiss past generations and the accomplishments of their predecessors to instead bash them for their indiscretions. But God forbid when the tables are turned, I guess.