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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What a wonderful person your sister-in-law must be.
We have never asked or expected anything from our former DIL, except that she love and be loyal to our son.
I guess we would have never known the state of the marriage if our son had not become extremely ill.
His 85 year old dad had to go get him and take him to the ER.
His wife never even called to see how he was doing.
“So you expect to make spontaneous family calls that go over 30 minutes? You expect to be able to pop in without notice to a relative on a business trip?”
No! I expect a modicum of respect from my daughter. She is allowed to call her father and say “Hey dad, how have you been.” I haven’t received a call from her in 2 years.
“The Great Wealth Transfer is an intergenerational wealth transfer that is underway in the United States, among other nations, with the baby boomer generation leaving significant wealth to their heirs.[1][2] Baby boomers and the silent generation will bequeath a total of $84.4 trillion in assets through to 2045, with $72.6 trillion going directly to heirs.[1][3] The transfer of wealth from baby boomers will account for $53 trillion or 63% of all transfers, while the Silent Generation will hand down $15.8 trillion.[3]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Wealth_Transfer
And how much of that will be used to pay down the debt?
I’d say close to $0.
Family stuff can be tough.
I cut off my parents for a long list of reasons—and did not get money from them when they died.
I guess you could argue I showed no “respect”.
Guilty as charged.
Respect has to be earned. They did not earn my respect.
Thank you for stating that. Spoiled? Wasnt even in the dictionary at my house or that of my friends.
@matt bracken - come see us if you are stuck on land. You know where we live.
Otherwise, half a mile offshore in your escape pod, you and E are good.
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