Baby boomers not all alike

Sun News/ Myrtlebeachonline ^ | 7/11/04 | Jeffrey Zaslow

[Howlin]

Johnson's Great Society, 1965-1966....total number of "boomers" with the right to vote......ZERO.

Are all your posts this inaccurate?

The BB born in 1946 were 18 in 1964.

ALL OF THREE MILLION OF THEM.

You add '47, '48, '49, and '50, and you've got about sixteen million people.

[Brad’s Gramma]

and the majority of the boomers did embrace at least parts of the culture.

You are SO wrong.

[CyberCowboy777]

As I have stated - Mr. Clinton is the product of the pervasive culture of the boomer generation (as was Mr. Bush for many years).

Also as I have stated - GenXers and Gray Panther voted by wider margins than Boomers for Clinton.

[Brad’s Gramma]

Nobody here, certainly not me, expects anyone to believe that 99% of all boomers where/are bad people.

Sure as heck couldn't prove it from reading these threads.....

[Mo1]

it's ok :0)

[exhaustedmomma]

painting a pretty broad brush there

I suppose. I look at my parents and my parents, parents generations. They had nothing. They tried to give my generation everything. I have relatives in their 70's, 80's, and 90's. These people are good, hardworking, and moral. But, they would vote democrat regardless of any value they hold. It isn't the "liberalness", it is the democratness. It transcends their religion, their morals, their cognitive knowingness. The mindset, or whatever it is, rules. As far as my generation, the boomers--- a group of socialists took hold of this "mindset" and ran with it. Collectively, we have nearly all moved left of center. Broadbrushed strokes??? I just call it like I see it. Maybe my paintbrush is faulty. I just don't think so. It is more, IMHO, than accepting "liberalism." And of course there is a fight.

[beef]

"Gosh, beef. I know a wholelotta late 20-mid 30 year old people who refuse to grow up. But hey. Somehow that's fine. Right?"


I have no problem with not growing up. As long as you're not stuck in an angry adolescent crisis, like the leftists are.

[Brad’s Gramma]

How old are you?

[CyberCowboy777]

okay.

But you are wrong in that you are limited.

Philosophies do not transcend generations without being changed and shaped by generations.

I do not blame any one individual, I just understand the generationtional progression.

You are free to limit your understanding, but I know you don't. Just from talking with you I can see you understand the generational impacts. You just don't put it in the same words out of fear of being "unfair".

[CyberCowboy777]

Sure as heck couldn't prove it from reading these threads.....

Then you have not read the entire thread.

[xsmommy]

so you admit that what it comes down to is the definition of GENERATION? because we are using the word differently, i am sure you can tell that. i am not worried about being unfair at all, i am using common sense. and yes, philosophies DO transcend generations.

[Brad’s Gramma]

I've read enough of this one and enough of others to see.

It's a rather liberal mind-set, IMO, to blame one group of people for all of the problems in society.

[CyberCowboy777]

What is a majority? 51%?

Can we agree?

Now look at the voting trends of Boomers.

Now look at the TV viewing trends of Boomers.

Now look at the Best Seller trends and so on.

The majority of boomers are center/left, left of the Conservative culture.

[Tamzee]

The problem, and the understanding I try to reach is the progression leftward, generation by generation. To ignore anyone generation in that analysis is intellectually dishonest.

They why use something as irrelevant as the Baby Boomer years... some were infants and others were almost adults when certain events happened. The next generation in my family began in 1992... while my neighbor's next generation started about ten years earlier.

Why not do so simply decade by decade... and stop assigning blame for events that individuals didn't personally uphold.

[CyberCowboy777]

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[xsmommy]

you really should define your terms more precisely, since you appear to be leaving a large number of posters on this thread with a misimpression.

[Brad’s Gramma]

BTW...seeing as how it's only almost 3:00 PDT, WHY have so many of you young people NOT been at work today?

[Brad’s Gramma]

Got your own apartment?

[beef]

"The BB born in 1946 were 18 in 1964.

ALL OF THREE MILLION OF THEM.

You add '47, '48, '49, and '50, and you've got about sixteen million people."

In 1964, the voting age was 21. It went down to 18 in the early '70s, along with the drinking age. By 1980, the behavior of myself and my peers had led to the drinking age being put back to 21. But the voting age stayed at 18.

hic*

[Howlin]

Peaked in '79, actually.