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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They are on other sites too...also people who blame Jews for everything too. They are a bunch of losers.
I was born in 1947. I'm 78 now. I won't be living to 98 that's for sure. I was the baby. I've already outlived everyone else in my family.
It is PROGRESSIVE boomers. They were raised in the shadow of FDR’s commie take over of every aspect of government. That’s when government jobs became lifelong endless careers and Gramski’s “march through the institutions” got its foothold in everything, media, education, college, etc, which saturated them. The worst is the takeover of public education.
Hat tip to you US-Conservative!
Excellent post and I think this Boomer-hate is ridiculous and probably fabricated.
There are so many losers who want to blame others for their lot in life.
We are all the sum of our decisions.
People need to look in the mirror and accept responsibility.
The attitude of this thread title is beyond mental disorder.
I’d like to know when these boomer haters got their first new car, and who paid for it. We didn’t have a car when I grew up in the 50’s and 60’s. I didn’t learn how to drive until I was married with two sons. Got divorced in 1979. Drove used cars until I found a career. In 1980 I was driving a Duster with three on the column that I paid a co-worker $1,000 for. Next car was a used Subaru. That was the first car loan I had for $10,000. Bought it from the mechanic who had been servicing my Duster. I bought my first brand new car around 1985...a VW Golf. I was 38 at the time. I’m 78 now and lease my vehicles these days, so when I die, all my kids have to do is take it back to the Nissan dealer. I have no estate, no savings, no investments, and I own nothing, so Nissan won’t even be able to get any money because my sons won’t be probating a Will.
Millenials need the cure that only a good hard spanking can give them.
There were three of us girls and one boy in our family. When we were all still living at home in the 50's and 60's, us three girls had to do the dishes every night and on the weekends. My brother was never made to wash a dish, but he did have a paper route that he got up early for 7 days a week. On the weekends, and especially during the winter, my father went with him. We didn't have a car so they walked the route. When the weather was nice they used a cart. When there was snow on the ground, they used a sled.
My only brother was in Cu Chi, Vietnam in 1966-67...U.S. Army, Company C, 4th Battalion (Mechanized), 23rd Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division. Passed from a heart attack at the young age of 51.
I’ve been aware of this resentment for awhile. I intend to fight to keep what is mine.
Those people are posting comments that have nothing to do with the man in the picture. Nobody in the boomer generation has any animosity toward them.
Did anything in post 129 surprise you about what you think you know about the boomer generation?
The absolute worst candidate in the history of ever, and she still almost won.
We are so screwed.
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The voting numbers for voters with a college degree is simply disgusting.
They’ll vote for an orangutan as long it’s a democrat.
“But what they are guilty of, beginning with Bill Clinton, is starting quantitative easing as a way of life.”
I do not recall being asked about that, and I damn sure did not vote for a draftdodger.
Boomers aren’t to blame and Boomers shouldn’t be blaming other demographics for our national ills either.
It’s a counterproductive blame game that leads nowhere productive.
However, blaming others will always be attractive to some people no matter the age group. Much more attractive than looking in the mirror.
Sounds like frequent target practice is wise use of time.
My path to a degree in engineering and good paying job did help destroy my marriage. There is also that little pause in life of 4 years in the service.
Not being able to start college until I was in my mid-twenties and working full time. College at night took extra years to finish, but I did.
I doubt very much you can find an millennial or zoomer that is getting a worthwhile degree that way.
I understand, I know there are Boomers with hearts of gold. But it was a generational shift. You can see it in the stock market. It’s wealth that was taken (stolen) which can’t be given back.
…and get shot.
Joe Biden is not a "boomer" but my point remains the same.
I don’t know what your point is, what does that post mean, why no yes, or no?
It occurred to me the other day that I am pretty close to being a millionaire on paper. Color me surprised.
My company and home together get me 3/4 of the way there. The rest is IRAs and investment accounts.
Because I can’t get much of a house on the proceeds of the sale of my current house, I will likely stay in it until I die, so that’s tied up. Selling my business would be painful, so that’s tied up as well. That leaves me with about $200K liquid, not really a comfortable retirement.
Yeah, us Boomers are rolling in it.
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