If you had ever told me my own boomer generation would produce this many idiots I would never have believed it.
We can thank women like my mother who spent decades with daytime talk show on. As long as I can think back there was ALWAYS something awful on. Donahue. Oprah. Rosie. The view.
The current definition of baby boomer is people born from 1946 to 1964, is now 59 to 78 years old depending on the month. 1960 was the previous cutoff date which is people 63 to 78 years old. The baby boom was originally considered to be people born to those who got busy procreating after WWII.
Among my own relatives I notice a difference in attitude in people born after 1960 compared to those born before then, to me the original definition seems more apropos. 1960 feels like a more natural dividing line.
Kamala was born near the end of 1964. To me she feels more like a generation X person than a baby boomer. Not that there are not plenty of idiots who are baby boomers. Look at George Bush Jr. born in 1946, Al Gore born in 1948, Hillary Clinton 1947. For some reason there are not that many top tier politicians who were born in the 1950s... Why is that? They became adults in the 1970s and somehow took a backseat to the older boomers in politics. Most of the recent crop of top tier politicians are from generation x or beyond. It is kind of weird.
I went to a high school that was 15 miles south of Berkeley. Rachel Maddow also graduated from the school, albeit 10-12 years after me.
It was woke, before woke was even thought of. On April 1, 1972, I received my letter awarding me a 4 year Army ROTC scholarship. I was able to choose from over 300 colleges and universities, and the Army would pay all of my academic expenses.
When the word got out, I was a pariah on campus. Although I was never spit on, I was the target of verbal abuse and derision. Teachers told me to my face how "disappointed" they were with my decision.
The joke was on them: I graduated from Gonzaga with zero student debt and served as an Air Defense Artillery officer in Germany and Fort Bliss.
I have never attended a HS reunion, never had the desire. I shook the dust off my boots and never returned. Conversely, I've attended several college reunions, and have stayed in touch with several classmates.
Last summer, I reconnected with an old Army buddy. We got together for the first time in over 40 years. I was best man at his wedding, too.
I haven't spoken with him about "Command Sergeant Major" Walz. He's not deserving of any respect compared to the NCOs that I served with.
As one of the later Boomers (1958) I got to see the earliest as they hit college and even as young as I was I thought of them as nasty disingenuous hypocrites.