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I agree that blanket condemnations are completely unfair...my generation hates that upon themselves. There are plenty of GenXers who tout the leftist line because they think it raises them above the rest of us who are not sold by it. Which I think it was brilliant for CinnamonGirl to distinguish those among the GenXers who uphold conservative values as Generation Reagan.

I have been trying to temper my scorn for the 60s for the radical Left that took over like a virus, remembering that amongst that generation were very brave people who fought in Vietnam and came back to be spit upon by their peers. But you see in my mind, when those soldiers came back they were no longer 60s CHILDREN, they were MEN, and deserved respect. So the distinction was such that to pour derision upon the 60s is NOT to include the men of Vietnam. In my particular view, it is to stand up for them and return the scorn upon the Leftist Hippies who were so horrible to the vets and did such harm to the rest of us. This is how it works out in my mind.

But then, there is George W Bush who has been tempered himself and proves that not all Boomers are the filth-encrusted maggot-infested dope-smoking FM types that still go around trolling for attention and adulation.

As a Generation Reaganite though, I do get sick of some Boomers complaining that we don't appreciate them and don't follow in their footsteps. We've watched, we've paid attention, and we teach our own children what we've observed.

That kind of retort is something I would love to fling in the faces of Bill and Hildebeast Clinton. It won't make a dent in their fossilized skins, and it won't change them, but it will be a warning to them that they have bid too much on their own sense of invulnerability.

But you see in my mind, when those soldiers came back they were no longer 60s CHILDREN, they were MEN, and deserved respect. So the distinction was such that to pour derision upon the 60s is NOT to include the men of Vietnam. In my particular view, it is to stand up for them and return the scorn upon the Leftist Hippies who were so horrible to the vets and did such harm to the rest of us. This is how it works out in my mind.

Well put, agree 100%.

I agree that blanket condemnations are completely unfair...my generation hates that upon themselves. There are plenty of GenXers who tout the leftist line because they think it raises them above the rest of us who are not sold by it. Which I think it was brilliant for CinnamonGirl to distinguish those among the GenXers who uphold conservative values as Generation Reagan.

Yes, there are times when you need to put the shotgun away and go for the precision rifle. Yes, it is easy to use the shotgun approach and say all Boomers were worthless hippies, but many are or were not, again we can bring up people like Rush Limbaugh, President GW Bush, and many many others I've skipped over. We must not get them with "friendly fire" when we take member of that generation to task. I also include the ones that were hippies then but have since seen the errors of their ways and have come over to our side, at least they realize there was more to life than dope, free sex and rock and roll, although the last isn't really bad at all.

I have been trying to temper my scorn for the 60s for the radical Left that took over like a virus, remembering that amongst that generation were very brave people who fought in Vietnam and came back to be spit upon by their peers. But you see in my mind, when those soldiers came back they were no longer 60s CHILDREN, they were MEN, and deserved respect. So the distinction was such that to pour derision upon the 60s is NOT to include the men of Vietnam. In my particular view, it is to stand up for them and return the scorn upon the Leftist Hippies who were so horrible to the vets and did such harm to the rest of us. This is how it works out in my mind.

I'm an "early model X'er," born in 1966, will be 39 this year. Now to those who embraced the hippie ideas and spout the party lines of hating the US, our Armed Forces, the feminazis, politically correct crowd, free sex crowd, pro-homosexual, bra burning, and so on and never grew up out of that, all I can say is "shame on them" and "thanks a heap for screwing up my world." I know it is not the conservative thing to blame others but in this case, I have to go with what my eyes see and I do lay a huge, major part of the blame on them for the huge messes in society we have gotten into from the 1960's to now. I'm sure there are a fair share of lefties in the X'er Generation as well as the Y'er Generations, the "neo-hippies" or "hippie wannabes" I call them, but in all of this mess, I would see "Patient Zero" as the originals from the 1960's. I always felt it was up to the X'ers to clean up things, of course, we will need loads of help from the aging but good Boomers and Silent Generation (my parents are members of this) as well as the good Y'ers coming after us, but I think the X'ers need to lead, the early models are getting close to 40 if they are not there already.

But then, there is George W Bush who has been tempered himself and proves that not all Boomers are the filth-encrusted maggot-infested dope-smoking FM types that still go around trolling for attention and adulation.

Exactly, we need to put the shotgun down or at least watch where we point that thing. B-) See my reference above. B-)

As a Generation Reaganite though, I do get sick of some Boomers complaining that we don't appreciate them and don't follow in their footsteps. We've watched, we've paid attention, and we teach our own children what we've observed.

Again, it is not that we don't appreciate them, we just don't like the ideology the lefties want to foist on us, in the end, it doesn't matter who is in the driver's seat of the leftist juggernaut, if it wants to tear down all you hold near and dear, I con't care if the driver is a Boomer, X'er or Y'er. Come to think of it, IIRC correctly, one of the darlings of the hippie left is George McGovern and he is part of the "Greatest Generation" who fought World War II. I thank McGovern for his service, IIRC, he was a bomber pilot, he did his job well I'm sure, but what came after during the 1960's, I have lots of trouble with.