[neverdem]

"Death fears of the Boomer Left," always struck me as more of a death wish.

[Snoopers-868th]

But to be "conservative" is a near-synonym for being grown-up.

As I read this, my mind conjured the image of a sandbox in Washington when Congress meets.

[massgopguy]

“Cosmo, I just want to remind you, no matter what you do, you’re gonna die.” - Rose Castorini, Moonstruck

[bassmaner]

bttt

[karnage]

Dadgum good piece!

[Kenton]

The biggest error we tend to make is to confuse the Boomer Left with the Boomer Generation as a whole.

Yeah. No joke.

Or I take that back. The "Boomer Left" IS a joke.

Remember the old saying : He who is not liberal at 20 has no heart; he who is still liberal at 40 has no brain."

[MrB]

Most leftists are secularists who have rejected the idea of a deity because said deity would mean that there was an objective truth and consequently, an objective right and wrong.

Not knowing what will happen when you die will lead to anxiety and fear.

[wolfcreek]

“Back in the Sixties,” sighs an ex-hippie lady I know, “everybody was happy. Really. Everybody.”

You’d never known it from the sit-ins, riots and some of that depressing anti-war music. This lady was stoned.

[theanonymouslurker]

For your list.

[VR-21]

The "Boomer Left" was more of a symptom than the actual disease. I make no excuses, but I do want to point out that the "long march through the institutions" the author alludes to really started much earlier.

Timothy Leary, Alan Ginsburg, Jean Paul Sarte, Rachel Carlson and that ilk were not boomers, for that matter.

I recommend a study of the Frankfurt School and it's agenda if you wish to see who pulled the strings on so many gullible boomers. The monster we live with now was incubated in the very early years of the 20th Century.

[stevem]

It’s quite an interesting litany. It’s easy to relate to just about all of it...except the part about Bush being a conservative...and Gonzales.

[crazyshrink]

Excellent post...thank you.

[rhombus]

"The Sixties" was itself a PR fantasy, whooped up by our objective media to flatter their younger audience, and to make converts for the Left. For Boomers themselves, swinging Left was a good career move: It got them noticed in the media, in colleges, in advertising, in the arts, in politics, and in the sexual meat market.

Ain't it the truth? Make love, not war, man and pass that doob this way. Did you buy the Woodstock album yet? I knew somebody who knew somebody who knew somebody who was there. It was outta sight! It was all about the music man, and love and peace and gettin' naked with chicks. Yeah capitalism sucks. Power to the people. Hey where'd you get that flower for your VW bug? I got mine down at the head shop. Yeah I gotta get a job. Bummer. Capitalism sucks. Some day all the people will come together as one and we're gonna change all that.

[HungarianGypsy]

The past is always glorified compared to today. I can think how great the late ‘80s and early ‘90s were, yet I was a teenager and was often miserable.

[Berlin_Freeper]

I think what retards the Left most is their pure selfishness. Everyone else seems to owe them something because somehow we are in the way of them attaining all their wants and desires.

For them death is The Big Ugly with no afterlife so they got to have it all before they expire. They never want to grow up because they refuse to leave life in the fast-lane and slow down. It’s all about “me me me me” and “now now now now”, tomorrow it could all be over and there will be nothing so they have no interest in maturing and paying back into a civil society.

[CitizenUSA]

Excellent analysis of the Boomer Left mentality. As a Boomer myself, it irks me that the hippies and flower children have mostly defined my generation, even though there are many staunch Boomer conservatives.

“But last week, the Senate Armed Services Committee kept on swerving into black comedy when Democrats reminded him that people die in war.”

Did the Dems actually do this?!? If so, it’s probably the most amazing bit of news I heard this week. Can you imagine? Unbelievable.

Thanks, neverdem!

[eyedigress]

Bump!

[IronJack]

The Grateful Dead are looking a lot less grateful than they used to

And a lot more dead ...

[lapster]

Great article codifying thoughts that need to be expressed. As a Baby Boomer, I readily concede that we are, indeed, America’s worst generation. Selfish. Whining. Spineless. And thoroughly incapably of maintaining moral rectitude. Our daddies and mommies taught us that we were always right, we could do no wrong, and we deserved whatever we wanted. In short, we are a generation of Bill Clintons. And the world is all the worse for it.

Now, before some of my fellow Boomers start bleating that “we’re not all that way,” allow me to say that most are, and most of those who aren’t are ineffective in controlling those who are. So, spare me the “don’t generalize” cappola.

The biggest problem most of us Boomers are going to have was brought home to me with a bang the other night in an AA meeting. A young fellow allowed as to how he didn’t like a lot of meetings because he was — to quote — “tired of having to listen to a bunch of Vietnam veterans sit around and whine.” All I could think of was the line by Emerson, “All heroes in time become bores.”

And that will be the Baby Boomers’ epitaph.

[GiovannaNicoletta]

bookmark for later

[mikeus_maximus]

"Back in the Sixties," sighs an ex-hippie lady I know, "everybody was happy. Really. Everybody."

That's what you remember, dear, because you were stoned.

In some ways, I envy my kids. They'll live in a time when the throwbacks of the 60's generation are dead.