Posted on 10/01/2025 6:50:11 AM PDT by Starman417
Politics is a dirty business. It always has been. But today, politics is sometimes too often synonymous with violence.
While there were many catalysts that resulted in violence being seen as a “legitimate” form of political discourse, one stands out: Columbia University, 1968. That year, a combination of black and anti-war activists took over a building on the campus of New York’s premier university. They demanded that Columbia cancel a proposed nearby gymnasium that was claimed to be racist and end its relationship with a Department of Defense-affiliated think tank.
The NYPD eventually ejected the activists after a series of violent clashes. In a sane world, every one of those students would have been expelled, barred from campus, and sued for damages. But that’s not what happened.
No, the administration acquiesced to virtually every demand, and there were very few consequences. Suddenly, on TVs across America, activists were learning the lesson that violent takeovers can yield good results with minimal consequences, if any, even at one of the nation’s leading universities. The message having been received, it was suddenly gloves off for activists across the country. Yale, Howard, Brown, and others followed. The next year saw more of the same at Harvard and U Penn, too.
These students, these radicals, including terrorists, did not reflect most American people’s opinion. In that year’s election, the Democrat candidate, who was far more acceptable to the American people than the left’s activist wing, could still secure only 13 states and 42% of the popular vote. Four years later, Nixon would be reelected by a 49 to 1 Electoral College landslide. Not only that, but between 1968 and 1988, Democrats would win only one out of 6 elections and would lose 49 states twice.
In 1968 and many years after, the radicals in the Democrat party wouldn’t reflect majority opinion, but the die was cast. The lesson was learned: Violence wins. And so it grew.
The radical SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) launched violent protests against their closest mainstream ally, the Democrats, during the 1968 DNC convention in Chicago. The next year, terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn would launch the Weather Underground, which would bomb the US Capitol two years later. The pace accelerated: “During an eighteen-month period in 1971 and 1972, the FBI reported more than 2,500 bombings on U.S. soil, nearly 5 a day.” That violence wasn’t coming from conservatives.
Over time, those Baby Boomers, the spoiled spawn of the Greatest Generation, would basically turn against and undermine everything their parents fought for. They would go on to become teachers and professors and writers and journalists, taking the lessons and the perspectives from 1968 with them. Nothing exemplifies this more than the fact that Communist Howard Zinn’s treacherous A People’s History of the United States became the textbook of choice for tens of thousands of teachers across the country.
It would take a while, but by the early 1990s, the radicals from ’68 were firmly in control of almost every educational and cultural institution in America. From schools and universities to NGOs and newsrooms, the radicals were in a position to brainwash America’s youth with their leftist poison. And they did.
America began to see the full fruit of the radicals’ poison during the Bush years, when he was regularly called a Nazi and compared to Hitler. In 2008, the radicals finally came into their own with the election of their fellow traveler, Barack Obama. Indeed, Obama launched his political career in the home of terrorists Ayers and Dohrn.
Under Obama, the racial divide would grow, the gay lobby would begin its evolution into the trans nightmare we have today, and the violent rhetoric against anyone who opposed the left would intensify. Obama would use the government apparatus, which was now fully stocked by acolytes of those 1960s radicals, to target conservatives. Simultaneously, the justice apparatus across the country—by design, typically one of the least radical elements of the government structure—from District Attorneys to parole boards to judges and justices, embraced the leftist victimization mentality where virtually no transgression, including violence, should be punished, unless the perpetrator is from an unapproved group.
What’s more, the universities had become indoctrination centers producing millions of illiberal and sometimes violent graduates taking to the streets in support of every leftist cause. They were found in Antifa, in BLM, in trans groups, in pro-illegal immigrant groups, and antisemitic groups from both the Islamic and progressive perspectives.
All of this culminated during the era of Donald Trump. His first term was bookended by violence. In January 2017, Washington went up in flames upon his inauguration, and in the summer of 2020, cities and towns around the country were engulfed in flames and violence as the death of George Floyd sparked the left’s decades-long propaganda kindling of white supremacy and institutional racism. Then, during the Biden administration, violent antisemitic protests were allowed to blossom on campuses across the country.
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Bless you!
Ok I guess your ego won’t let you see the obvious.
“Make it stop!”
Some people just have to have a scapegoat. When I was young I never had a clue that I would be this reviled.
Tucker Carlson did a show about how horrid the Boomers are. It might have been posted on FR. There is no reason to go after a group that is full of conservatives and MAGA members unless one is TRYING to create division. I am not convinced that Tucker is on the side of conservatives. I think he is a snake
I see clearly. I’ve been teaching American lit and history to younger generations, patriotism and prayer
I served my country in the military
Listening to some current pundit practically spit talking about having spoken to a ‘Boomer’ who was dumb, I shut him off immediately. That’s hatred and bigotry
I know the boomers. I know the generation who raised them,
Boomers did not introduce divorce, not responsible for the destructive Viet Nam situation, did not introduce birth control
It is bigotry and unnecessary
We are trying to fix this
I’m the end of the generation before the boomers. We were sort of in it without really being in it. Too conservative to tolerate marijuana but enjoying the tie dyes and the ultra short skirts and the music. University of Chicago never really went radical. They were too busy arguing about Roberts Rules of Order to really get around to doing anything.
But the assassination of Kennedy stopped the world cold, and the riots around the Chicago convention were scary. It was the first time danger from human sources, instead of from natural weather like blizzards that made cars disappear, threatened us. We stayed in and read about it in the Tribune and learned the barest iota about the feelings of people in countries that were really at war.
I came out of that era more determined than ever as a conservative and more proud of being one. But I still have my microskirts hanging in the basement as memories and the poster from Hair still hangs on one wall, with a portrait of Trump hanging on another.
A lot of this was led by “Red Diaper Babies”, who by definition came from communist parents, both immigrant and native. (E.g., the Great March Through the Institutions had pre-Boomer origins.)
But yes, the success of the multigenerational effort is clear.
No, the administration acquiesced to virtually every demand, and there were very few consequences.
This has been my thinking on this fro decades.
The Greatest Generation and their parents were in charge of the country when the Boomers came of age.
They failed in their responsibility to enforce social norms and ensure that order in the country was maintained while their children and grandchildren matured.
My only assumption must be that Socialist were in charge of these institutions and the chaos that ensued is exactly what they wanted. They wanted the dissolution of society.
They wanted the slow collapse of the United States so that communism could gain control of the most powerful free market of all time.
I am a boomer and I am sick of this boomer hate. I never was involved in what the nincompoops like RATs did to ruin the country. Boomers were used and decimated by Vietnam and so many went and served their country. They made sacrifices and they worked hard.
It is convenient to blame the generation before, so I guess I blame my conservative parents for making this mess. /s
You posted everything I was about to post. Thank you. I'm sick to death of this generation crap. Why people buy into it I don't know. And has anyone noticed how "generations" (like Gen Z) are now supposedly only 10 years long? How Gen Z is going to save us (you know, the Antifa and assassination age group).
People try to sell this crap for either their own benefit or profit. To stroke egos or stoke fears, to sell goods or ideas. As far as I'm concerned, "generationalism" is akin to astrology. "Tell me when you were born and I'll tell you all about you." Bull.
It’s bigotry
I’m a boomer. What did i cause or propagate ?
- I was 14 when LBJ introduced “War on Poverty”
- 15 when LBJ gave us Medicare
- 20 When I went to Vietnam.
LBJ - Born 1908
Truman - Born 1884
JFK - Born 1917
somebody needs to get a grip...
“I am a boomer and I am sick of this boomer hate.”
Ditto.
So Woodrow Wilson was a Boomer? 🕸️
This “writer” should do 2 minutes of research before making sweeping generalizations - the two examples given - Ayers and Dohrn - were born during WW2, so, by definition, not Boomers.
Too bad there’s no such thing as an editor anymore.
Agreed, Boomers like you and me ended the Cold War. Our politicians spent the peace dividend. Can’t lay that all on the Boomers. On this date in 1977, my soldiers and I were caught up in the same shutdown we have now. As a bachelor, it didn’t affect me, but my soldiers (with families) suffered. Happened again in 1978. We eventually received our pay.
not directed at you...adding to what you’ve posted...
Stupid article.
Oh. Ya. That’s how I read it.
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