“I identify with America as it existed before the Baby Boomers went to college. You can look back at previous generations and marvel at their accomplishments. They “won the West” and built the Panama Canal and put a man on the moon.”
Those baby boomers came up with the very computer you are now typing on, and the basis for all of the other technological wizardry we consider part of our daily lives now. So don’t knock all baby boomers. There was a lot of good that came out of the boomer generation along with the bad. Same as our earlier generations who fought our wars and built this country, yet voted en masse for a socialist, FDR. Explain that one. Every generation has its faults and virtues. One should not blanket indict, it is unbecoming.
Thanks for your kind words about the baby boomers. They have good people and bad people but the bad people get all the attention. So many of my generation died in Viet Nam. Jane Fonda, perhaps the most infamous of anti-war protester, was born in the late 30s so was never a part of my generation. How many conservative generation x’ers know that?
I’m particularly grateful to my generation for their veneration of old Hollywood - and bringing it to life with their college courses and seminars. It was the baby boomers who taught me who D.W. Griffith was and Groucho Marx. The men who changed Hollywood for the worst - people like Warren Beatty and Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper had nothing to do with the baby boom.