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Many impressionable people believe the children and teenagers of the 60s were making all those Supreme Court judgments, and passing all that legislation, and leading the ACLU, and the Feminist movement, the NEA and on and on.
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I agree totally. I made this same point in a post about a month ago. I was amazed and taken back by the degree of hatred exhibited towards the boomers on free republic. there seems to be a confusing of the actions of teenage boomers in the sixties and the degree of power they had to effect the actual institutions in the society at large. In reality it was the "greatest generation" that was in power when the boomers came of age, and they were also the generation that produced and raised the boomers. In short, it was Walter Cronkite et AL who bought into the rantings of a bunch of spoiled coddled teenagers, and embraced their political and social agenda.

Wasn't it Clinton who was the first boomer president? Isn't Pres. Bush also a member of the boomer generation. The boomers grew to power in the eighties and nineties in their 30's and 40's, and helped win the cold war, fought proudly in the Viet Nam war, and graduated from college in unprecedented numbers. They weren't all that bad really.

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If people want to trace the roots of homelessness for example, look to 1963, when the oldest boomer in existence was 17.



"Exercising misguided intentions, President Kennedy signed the Community Mental Health Centers Act in 1963. His stated purpose was to integrate institutionalized individuals back into the population. From that day until 1980 when the law expired, the population in the nation's mental health institutions dropped by 70%. With inadequate numbers of community mental health centers, psychiatrists, and therapists to help the newly released mentally ill individuals integrate into the community, many of them wound up living on the street or in prisons."