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If the true guilt of our present condition is weighed, the honest juror will convict boomers

"Real" history always begins the day we were born. When the generation that follows yours has had its way, you'll find your own generation was to blame.

The practice of slicing & dicing people into "classes" is the way leftists have been getting away with creating much that has gone wrong with our society. You can either continue to buy into it or you can open your eyes.

"Real" history always begins the day we were born. When the generation that follows yours has had its way, you'll find your own generation was to blame.

Well, now you're back in my camp. The boomers are the guilty g-g-generation. Everything I have listed (and you've ignored) are the legacy of boomers - we're the g-g-generation that flushed our nation's values, heritage, ideals, traditions and institutions en mass. Easy to forget our rhetoric and actions when the chickens come home to roost, eh?

Now, on the issue of trans-generational blame (which you attempted first), I would only say that when Xer's, Yer's and Zer's come into power, the resultant events will come from two quarters:

1. The truly lost generation (sorry Mr. Kerouac, that moniker belongs to the boomer progeny) has no moral compass, no institutional support and no rooting in accurate history. They are the firstborn of the American apostasy. If they go off the cliff, it will be no surprise seeing that their historical and moral senses were obliterated by the boomers.

2. If the boomer's children and grandchildren recognize their lost heritage, reassert traditional values and fortify our national values in law and culture, then they stand a good chance of striking a blow for civilization as great (possibly greater) than the WWII generation. In this case, historically, the boomers will be forced to kneel in homage to a wiser and more courageous generation.

In either case, boomers are to blame. The core reason, and one you can't address, is the failure of our g-g-generation to communicate in word and deed the sacred trust of one generation to another to pass on the meaning of Americanism and it's duties. Clearly, the boomers are the link in the succession chain that has failed.

If you're smarting and want to vindicate your personal virtue, feel free. I do not condemn all boomers - not by a long shot. Many of us were (are) true to our given moral traditions and Americanism. It is, however, the zeitgeist (another boomer relic) of our g-g-generational cohort to veer into treason, apostasy and degeneracy. Real nice legacy and entirely defining for our first representative President, X42.