The Violent Spawn of the Greatest Generation: How the Baby Boomers Poisoned America

Flopping Aces ^ | 10-01-25 | Vince

[Night Hides Not]

Horse$hit! I received my education at Gonzaga University. None of my professors were from China or Russia. The greatest proportion of my classes were taught by my accounting professor, who served in the Navy during WWII. He never used numbers, taught the theory behind every accounting problem. I’m still applying those lessons 49 years later.

[Night Hides Not]

LOL, a blind man telling me what I should see.

[central_va]

Ok you are great. We break ground on a monument to you next week.

I hope you teach how bad globalism and destructive consequences of free trade which was started by the greatest generation and put on steroids by the boomers.

[Sequoyah101]

They have never ever been my fellows.

Spread the blame and include the .com gang who have financed most of the insanity to assuage their guilt and prove they are the smartest man in the room.

No, they have never been my fellows.

[central_va]

See, there were a lot of really self righteous Romans that believed in the Republic but still an empire came. No one cares about those patriots, even if they were correct, because they were washed away by history.

[central_va]

Nothing says “look at me I am narcissist” by using yourself as a virtuous boomer when talking about an ENTIRE generation of 10s of millions of boomers:

[Night Hides Not]

You’re always good for a chuckle VA!

[stanne]

I don’t have to be great. I’m not a pagan

This hatred is simply unnecessary

[central_va]

You mistake the truth for hatred. Nazi much?

[Pontiac]

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.)

And the Greatest Generation had the chance to stop it all.

They had "Tail Gunner Joe" McCarthy telling them of the Communist infiltration in to the US Federal Government but they allowed the Media to label him crack pot who saw communist under every bush.

McCarthy was right, the Red Scare was real and the Communist took over the Democrat Party.

Everything that followed was predictable because the Communist were able to get embedded in the institutions that educated and shaped the Baby Boomers.

[Pelham]

You’re correct, and the majority of the 1960s Red Diaper Babies stoking all of the hate were from the Silent Generation.

The dopes doing all of the Boomer bashing routinely blame us for what that generation did.

I’m an early Boomer and most of the time we were only spectators for all of the chaos and destruction we get blamed for by the emerging Generation Stupid.

[Cinnamontea]

It’s bigotry

Yes, that and a lack of critical thinking.

[central_va]

Hey, I am a bit narcissistic myself. I fight a daily battle for humility.

[9YearLurker]

Sadly, yes.

[Cinnamontea]

When I was young I never had a clue that I would be this reviled.

Don't let it bother you. So it was and so it shall always be. Thirty years from now young people will be whining about how Gen Z messed it up for everyone. Sigh.

[stanne]

“ Don’t let it bother you. So it was and so it shall always be. Thirty years from now young people will be whining about how Gen Z messed it up for everyone. Sigh.”

Of course.

[Wallace T.]

Bishop Fulton Sheen once said if you keep pinning blame on your parents, and those parents place blame on their parents, you finally end up with Adam and Eve. The Boomers have their flaws to be sure, but so has every generation since the beginning of time, which was Bishop Sheen's point. The founding of the Federal Reserve and the imposition of the 16th and 17th Amendments were passed by a generation that fought in the Civil War or their sons. The New Deal was passed by the generations that were born in the final years of the frontier or fought in World War I. The Great Society was the product of the GI (Greatest) Generation or the Lost Generation that immediately preceded the GI Generation. You could make the same arguments for the sexual and cultural revolutions. The social scientists of the Frankfurt School, Freudian psychology, Alfred Kinsey, Masters and Johnson, Magnus Hirschfeld, Hugh Hefner, and many others well preceded the Boomers. The groundwork for cultural decay and overbearing government was laid well before the Boomers were born or were at most in high school.

Boomer bashing is on the same level as right wingers complaining about Jews and blacks or left wingers bashing Christians and whites. FR and other web sites continually break out into Catholic vs. Protestant food fights. Obviously, neither side will agree with the role of the Catholic Church as the only authority on Scripture vs. Sola Scriptura. Then you have fights between dispensational Protestants and amillennial Protestants, with the former saying that if you don't believe in the pre-trib Rapture, you are a proto-Nazi and the latter claiming that the dispensationalists have been duped by the Jesuits, the Illuminati or whomever.

The blame game is just another divide and conquer technique. If you get Gen X and Millennials to fight Boomers, or whites to fight blacks, or Catholics to fight Protestants, or dispensationalists to fight amillennialists, and all vice versa, you have successfully divided the conservative base that should be focused on the enemy.

[Chipper]

Did it get fixed in the last 50 years?

[stanne]

“ neither side will agree with the role of the Catholic Church as the only authority on Scripture vs. Sola Scriptura”

What kind of a statement is this?

[libertylover]

I don’t blame the Baby Boomers, of which I am a part. That brush is too broad. I blame the leftist hippies of the 60’s. They set out to change the world, and they have - for the worse, much worse.