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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This post about growing PERCEPTIONS of Boomers. It’s not about how I feel, it’s about the growing anger toward older Americans,
The left has multiple points of division. This is another one.
We have one worldly point of unification. MAGA. But we better tell our story.
This post about growing PERCEPTIONS
Great post.
Generations used to be (sensibly) described as lasting 20, 25, or 40 years, depending on the context. Your grandparents are one generation, your parents are the next, and you're the next. Generations weren't (mis)defined as 9 or 10 years until people and companies realized they could sell you something--whether a product or an idea--by stroking your ego and telling you you're "a new generation."
Boomers hold about 51% of all U.S. household wealth (roughly $83 trillion) and have kept that dominant share through every presidency since Bill Clinton — Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden, and now Trump again — which makes them the generation that continues to dominate the nation’s power and wealth.
Mark.
My Millennial daughter and her husband set boundaries that we are not allowed to cross. One is if either my wife or I want to talk to her, we need to schedule a 30 minute call. My wife was recently in town for a few days, at a hotel 5 minutes from their house. My daughter wouldn’t see her because my wife didn’t schedule a meeting beforehand. The day I heard this, my daughter was removed from my will.
I don’t want to say she’s dead to me, but I am now inclined to never again pick up the phone to call her, meeting or no meeting.
We worked hard. They’re lazy and they’re whiners
That IS the Boomers’ fault; they spoiled their kids so badly that Precious and Percival expect EVERYTHING to be handed to them. And their kids are even worse.
We had family dinner yesterday at our house, and the three girls, ages 15, ~12, and ~10, didn’t lift a finger to help with cleanup or anything. And they weren’t expected to.
It’ll be all fun and games until they want to buy a house.
Amen, amen! Perfectly stated.
I remember working TWO jobs, out of college, to make enough to pay bills and even manage to SAVE a little. Every grocery item bought was ON SALE.
“One is if either my wife or I want to talk to her, we need to schedule a 30 minute call.”
Is there more to this story?
Some context is missing here.
There are circumstances beyond our control (government regulations, amoral corporations, AI-Skynet, “love growing cold” (the Bible)) that are negatively affecting younger people. But unfortunately, younger people also apparently haven’t been taught about adapting to situations, because if they had been taught this, there wouldn’t be so much whining toward some Depends-wearing smartass flipping the double bird (picture).
I ran out of money for my last year of college. I purchased a 1951 chevy pickup, rented a small 2 bedroom trailor on a farm and worked every job that I could find, while taking an overload of classes and fishing and hunting for food. I graduated 3 months early, and got married, I wouldn’t have missed that great adventure. I got to meet me up close and personal. I am prepared if the youngens come after my assets.
Sincere kudos!
It started with the Greatest Generation spoiling their children (Baby Boomers).
Boomers are the ones who participated in ROTC in high school, who had gun racks in the back of their pickups, who went hunting with Pop and Gramps every deer season, and whose buddies died in Vietnam. Most Boomers were raised with common sense and we aren’t afraid.
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?
Yep. I remember those loaded gun racks in the high school parking lot.
I wasn’t afraid.
“they are determined to take it all with them to the grave, not sharing a penny with the generations which came after.”
What we’ve designated in our Living Trust is VERY generous to beneficiaries. However, if we could spend it down to zero a week before the grave, that would be OK, too.
So sorry your wife was subjected to that despicable treatment...by her own daughter.
An appointment!
Sounds like these ingrates need appointments, alright ... with REALITY and a GOOD (not woke) counselor!
“It started with the Greatest Generation spoiling their children (Baby Boomers).”
🙄 I don’t know anybody my age who was spoiled. When I was 14, picking strawberries and grapes for the local farmers, maybe someone should’ve clued me in on how spoiled I was.
If you mean we were spoiled because The Greatest Generation passed down a Protestant work ethic to us Boomers, then you are correct. That resulted in us being successful.
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