Posted on 06/21/2009 5:28:54 PM PDT by JoeProBono
If I read that correctly you are an E-9, what generation are you?
Retired
So what generation are you a member of?
Boomer
Interesting, and congratulations for reaching E-9.
Good point. And the answer is of course no. I overstretch when I rant. But I would say the influence of the 18-27 year old segment of the group was immense on the rest of the population. The retreat from Vietnam and legalized abortion were big causes for the baby boomer counter culture of the late 60's and early 70's. They somehow wielded great political power. Wish they hadn't.
I say nonsense to that claim. When Cronkite made his Tet Offensive speech the oldest boomers alive had just turned 22 and many of those were in Vietnam fighting.
When you look at the worst destruction, and especially when the fatal destruction of America was put in place (1965 immigration act for instance), it was legislated and decided by the courts mostly between roughly 1935 to 1975.
The worst damage by the American left actually started slowing as the boomers became old enough to start participating in American life from about the 80s on (1984 was the first time that all boomers could vote in a presidential election), that was when the American people started pushing back against the old politicians and establishment figures of the previous generations such as Ted Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Walter Cronkite, Allen Ginsberg, William Ayers, Jane Fonda and NOW and the teachers unions etc.
The truth is that it is almost impossible to even name prominent boomers from the sixties except for a few musicians, and not many of them and you sure don’t find them running media or government or elections or courts or anything else, when the 1960s were ending in December of 1969 the oldest boomer was all of 23 years old, she was the oldest woman of her generation and Sarah Palin was among the youngest boomers, being five years old.
What has happened is the media has convinced people that America wasn’t destroyed by greed and guilt and everything else that took place from 1935 to 1975 but was instead transformed over night by the public school kids of the 1960s, it is a very odd myth and I noticed that one of it’s creators (Tom Brokaw) and his friends in the media even recently created the description of a “Greatest Generation” which doesn’t actually emcompass a generation at all.
It is the post that you thought was relevant to make, I thought it was inaccurate.
My condolences on your missing funny bone.
If you have to attack your audience for not appreciating your humor then maybe it wasn’t very funny.
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