Posted on 11/29/2025 6:06:39 AM PST by MtnClimber
Folks in the post-war generation born between 1946 and 1964 are now sixty or older. Scanning social media, it’s hard to miss the anger building against Baby Boomers. Those born after them are increasingly placing the blame for their woes on the unrelenting greed of the Baby Boomer generation. They believe that the Boomers had the sheer luck to be born when America was in its ascendency, and so they accumulated all the wealth, and now they are determined to take it all with them to the grave, not sharing a penny with the generations which came after.
[DISCLAIMER: This post about growing PERCEPTIONS of Boomers. It’s not about how I feel, it’s about the growing anger toward older Americans, deserved or not.]
The image posted on this Twitter / X thread sums up the situation.
The picture of an older man giving two middle fingers to the camera unleashed a torrent of generational rage.
[X post image at link...Language warning]
And it’s not just a few random posts I’ve cherry picked from social media. It’s everywhere. Any search will bring up results like these below:
So add anger toward the Baby Boomer generation to the anger of Blacks against Whites, the poor against the rich, socialists against capitalists, Democrats against Trump Republicans, and a witch’s brew of social anger is being stirred with more and more fire building under the bubbling pot.
Our social contract is so frayed that when riots begin the withheld anger boils over.
White Baby Boomers living in single-family homes in affluent suburbs will be at the greatest risk of any demographic. The anger toward them will be come from several social vectors at the same time. People displaced from urban cores by rampant criminality will have no compunction at all against invading the homes of empty-nest Baby Boomers. Their lives will be taken in the first minutes if they are fortunate. If not, their prolonged abuse and torture will serve to amuse the new tenants. Read up on what happens to farmers in South Africa when their homes are attacked if you think I’m being hyperbolic. This is one screen capture, I could post pages and pages.
Do you think that the people who live in nice suburbs like the one shown below are ready for the hellscape and sh**storm that will ensue if and when America suffers a social breakdown, one that can result from any of the maladies now simmering in that witch’s cauldron? We could experience a financial collapse of our own creation, or a cyber attack by our enemies, or a direct kinetic attack against our exposed and undefended power grid.
Will the folks living on these leafy suburban streets be ready for armed, organized and mobile bands of desperate urban poor who are looking to relocate and upgrade their crib at the same time? In third-world countries, these homes would at least have walls around them. In our current “high trust” society, these homes can be approached from all directions, without as much as a security guard in sight. And you can take it at as given fact that there will be no official police making house calls, and your desperate calls to 911 will only get a busy signal, or a taped “please hold” message. If even that.......SNIP
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Look at post #156.
I know there are Boomers with hearts of gold. But it was a generational shift.
I’m not a Boomer Blamer because it’s not an accurate assessment of that generation.
However, my Boomer contacts are limited because I don’t deal with the general public on a daily basis, like people in the hospitality sector.
I know some Gen X types that have worked in hospitality & have a lot of anti Boomer sentiment because of it.
They say Boomers know everything and know how to do your job as well.
If your brother does give some assets to his children now, he should limit his gifts to his children only..no spouses.
We gave our assets to our children in 2020, which provided one son and his wife of nearly 40 years with a mortgage free, 5 bedroom 3 bath retirement home in a nice neighborhood.
Four years later we found out that for at least 17 years their marriage had been a facade with no intimacy.
She had gaslighted our son into thinking that was normal for older couples, but they were only in their early forties.
Rather than go for counseling, she wanted a divorce.
She delayed as long as she could before finally vacating the house so that it could be sold.
She will, of course, get half of the proceeds when it sells, some of which came indirectly, from us.
Sorry to hear. Unfortunately, that story is too common nowadays.
I don’t know what that means either, what generational shift?
“””””I know some Gen X types that have worked in hospitality & have a lot of anti Boomer sentiment because of it.
They say Boomers know everything and know how to do your job as well.”””””
That sounds like more of the personality traits we see more and more they don’t like people and are personally offended by what they see as a group, age, race, sex, income, entire what they see as a type of a group because they put it in a massive and meaningless category.
Why won’t you say if anything in post 129 surprised you, did you know those facts?
The "Boomers" have dominated our politics in the past 50 years.
Bill Clinton
George W. Bush
Donald Trump
Al Gore
Dan Quayle
Mike Pence
Kamala Harris
Elizabeth Warren
Chuck Schumer
Lindsey Graham
Rand Paul
Debbie Stabenow
Amy Klobuchar
Jim Jordan
Adam Schiff
Greg Abbott
Kathy Hochul
Hillary Clinton
Janet Yellen
Bill Barr
Often, when I talk to baby boomers about their entitlements and the national debt, I am told that they will take what they are entitled to and they will not fix it.
They are leaving their children absolutely nothing but the debt and great suffering. It does drive me nuts, this mentality because I know how bad it will be for other generations, always paying and never benefitting just to stay alive.
That sounds like more of the personality traits we see more and more they don’t like people and are personally offended by what they see as a group, age, race, sex, income, entire what they see as a type of a group because they put it in a massive and meaningless category.
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I agree.
People nowadays seem to get pretty “riled up” over what seems pretty trivial to my eyes & ears.
I’m not sure it’s even firsthand experience, but what people are choosing to read & listen to on a daily basis.
Next thing you know somebody doesn’t like this age category, group, religion, sex, race, etc.
I see, you don’t know much and don’t really care.
I keep hearing about how wonderful it was to be a Boomer. Let’s see gas lines and gas shortages in high skrool?Double digit inflation? An imbecile for president? Getting out of college 5 months after the market crashes in your degree field?
I guess I must have slept through all of those great things that happened.
Matt Dystopia bump.
They are leaving their children absolutely nothing but the debt and great suffering.
And Baby Boomers don't care.
They’ll milk it for all it’s worth..
I don’t understand their thinking. I would not want to go to Judgement and have to account how I maximized the system for my benefit, but sold my children into chattel slavery, from which there is no escape, just so I had a good life.
We are supposed to make life a bit better for our descendants than what we had.
Man, am I lucky! After reading this thread of so many hardships...mine seem miner. So, many things could have caused me to suffer now...but, I’m O.K. Phew..
Often, when I talk to baby boomers about their entitlements and the national debt, I am told that they will take what they are entitled to and they will not fix it.
They are leaving their children absolutely nothing but the debt and great suffering. It does drive me nuts, this mentality because I know how bad it will be for other generations, always paying and never benefitting just to stay alive.
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Those future generations will be fine.
It won’t matter what Boomers do with their assets once they go on to the other side. Whether they donate it all to charities or leave it to heirs is immaterial.
Their assets are in the economic system & will remain in the economic system. The beneficiaries will be the asset manager class that has the knowledge and vision to keep the economic train rolling along.
Many people in the future that don’t understand assets or finance will still have a great future, because they’ll be passengers on economic trains driven by very talented engineers.
I came from a lower middle-class family, worked my way through college, paid off my student loans, and worked from the time I was 10 (paper route), until I turned 70. Had sone crappy dirty jobs but never asked anyone else to pay my bills. I’m securely retired and feel no guilt for anything I have. I’ve earned it all. Whatever I do with it is up to me. Giving it to a bunch of whiny, everyone gets a trophy, someone pay off my loans millennials/Zs is not high on my list.
Deep State loves ginning up games of lets-you-and-him-fight.
People need to refuse to play.
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