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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“The debt is costing your children $10,000/yr just to manage and you still think they will be living in mansions and driving lamborghinis.”
“YOU still think ...”? “YOU still think...”? (”You” meaning ME?) No no no no ... THEY think. THEY have high expectations of living the life of Mom and Dad without paying their dues.
“I don’t think the baby boomer generations cares one twit about what they did to their children.”
If the Boomers raised their kids to be productive members of society, kind, and ethical then they DO care more than a “twit” (you probably mean “whit”). Boomer parents do not necessarily show their care by leaving the brats cash and real estate. That isn’t going to build character.
My parents left NOTHING monetary. They cared about us by making us work at age 14 and earlier if a paper route; working our way through school; making us attend church every Sunday (4 times), Wednesday (1 time), and Friday (1 time); speaking respectfully to adults; etc.
That bug up your ass because, apparently, you got short shrift at some point in time, is not attractive.
Mentioned that in post #184.
“They are quite comfortable with the idea of what they did to their children”
What, exactly, did they DO to their children. You use that phrase often but what does it mean? What did they DO? Put food on the table and roofs over their heads? Bought them cars and the latest technology? What. Did. They. Do???
Debt. Right now, to maintain the debt, is about $10,000. In a few short years that will grow to $15,000. Then $20,000. Then more.
It didnt have to happen.
Oh right. I forgot I did that.
I looked up AI so dividing $38 trillion by ~348 million people gives about $109,000 per person.
-PJ
And the Lord may well say to YOU...”why were you worried about what others had or not had, does not my father own the cattle on a thousand hills? Was his arm so short that he could not provide you with what you needed? Even my Father dresses the lilies of the field in more lovely array then anything Solomon ever had. You were worried about the Earthly treasures of others that rot or are eaten by vermin but you neglected to lay treasures of heaven for yourself! You unfairly judge a group for the sins of those who had led America to ruin and forget that it is the Lord that gives and takes away and sees to the needs of his children. You sewed division and amplified envy. You don’t know which of the Boomers you castigated that my Father will judge for greed or will welcome into his kingdom. The World passes away but my words will not pass away”
I don’t think so. I hope so but by ‘36 at the latest.
For instance, when a steel mill is shut down, you don’t just lose the steel. You lose the services and experience of the individuals who made the steel. They knew when to add this or not add that to get the product they desired. They learned through experience. The books teach the basics. Experience teaches the exceptions to the rules.
Midterms are important in '26 but we will have to win the White House in '28.
We'll do the census in 2030 so we'll be up +10 in the red states plus PA is becoming a red state so it won't matter if we lose Georgia by then.
With JD, we may be able to stop the indoctrination by the Universities so the ball game will have changed and the Left will be at a significant disadvantage.
'28 is similar to '24. Another turning point.
Ah, you are a zeeper I just realized. That explains things.
Last thing I have is a heart of gold, and little tolerance for drones that stare at their iFag phones all day.
Are you talking about student loan debt? Revolving credit debt? Mortgage debt? Auto loan debt?
-PJ
$38 trillion. That’s what im talking about.
Actually the Silent Generation had the best of the US. They paid very little into SS and reaped big benefits, many had pensions, they could afford houses easily on one income, lived in a time of unprecedented prosperity and innovation after WWII.
First, you haven't even broken out the debt in order to even give it the merest amount of categorization, so we can't assign villains.
Without knowing the breakouts, we can't form defenses and we can't erect protections, so the number is meaningless.
Blaming it on "boomers" is just arm-waving and finger-pointing.
Besides, your specific claim of "$10,000... to maintain the debt" isn't representative of anything. If you're suggesting that the entire national debt acquired over decades is the burden imposed by "boomers," then that's just fundamentally wrong.
If you're implying that the burden is "$10,000" on the children, that would be wrong too, as it would be a burden on all taxpayers.
If you're trying to localize it, then you have to look at your own personal debt and your own ability to pay, because I don't see anywhere where I'm paying $10,000 to Boomer Debt.
-PJ
I meant the SG had it best - after going through the depression and WWII
No generation is to blame for the next generation being spoiled brats - well, raising them that way is the problem but they still need and can be accountable for themselves
Thank you. I’m sure there are many, many boomers that have had rough times growing up or during their working years. We were raised to stand on our own two feet and that hard work paid off. We were the ones that lived through a lot.
I am a Boomer - Dad was a mill hunkey, Mom stayed at home. I inherited nothing. My kids will get a house that neither one wants or needs to sell off and split the proceeds plus whatever is left of the nest egg. They will be fine, I’ll be with Jesus, win-win.
Anything now, cause the Zombie Shot🪡, didn’t work.
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