If you can't be right, you can at least be flippant. You really don't like that I claimed that the boomers inherited the greatest windfall in history, but you can't challenge it.
Being a Boomer I evidently qualify for this and was unaware and have yet to get paid.
My complaint was that they really weren't qualified, but received it anyway.
Time is running out!
Well then, cherish every second.
Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society programs became law in 1965. Three years before any Boomer was old enough to vote.
I didn't claim that the boomers voted for the social programs (since they weren't subject to direct referendum, anyway), but by the time GenX could vote, those welfare programs had been made the so-called "third rail" of political discourse by SOMEONE. One of the pillars of GenX politics was the demand for welfare reform and they were opposed by boomers on that agenda point.
Goldwater ran in 1964. The first election when any Boomer could vote was 1968. We had to be 21.
Again, I didn't say anything about voting. My generation was too young to vote for Reagan, but we certainly embraced him. I remember being on the school bus on election day, 1980, and we all knew Carter was finished. A spontaneous celebratory riot accompanied by a profane song signaled our unanimous approval of change.
In 1972 the 18-29 age group voted 46% for McGovern, 52% for Nixon. Maybe your definition of “embraced” is off a tiny bit.
In 1972 Nixon was the incumbent (who usually enjoys a boost across the spectrum). McGovern pushed the formerly conservative Democratic party far to the left when he secured the nomination by surreptitiously promising the youth vote that he would legalized pot and abortion. Going into the election season, polls had initially indicated that McGovern would enjoy a real windfall from the 21-and-below demographic, but the sort of boomer who wanted pot and abortion couldn't get it together enough to actually go register for the vote.
Boomers had to sign up for the Draft at age 18.
So did Gens X, Y, and Z.
The first Boomers were turning 19 when combat troops waded ashore in 1965. The greatest number of combat deaths were in 1968 and and vast majority were Boomers, 18-22 yrs old.
If every man jack of your generation had gone, the results would have been the same.
Go look at the Wall sometime if you can pry yourself away from feeling sorry over your harsh life.
Rhetorically I ask, "is that a victory wall?" GenX won its battles.
That was a lame post, you rebutted nothing but instead just pushed out some whiney avoidances of the facts and the realities of American life and politics and history.
I don’t have a problem with you, Lamp.
Your failure to do something as simple as to compare a calendar against your fantasy Boomer history is entertaining for everyone who lived through those times.
You should let us know your birth year so we have an idea of which generation you represent.