As a Boomer, I’d agree that enough bad things can’t be said about the leftist wing of the Boomer generation. But they were never anymore than half, and likely significantly less than half of the generation.
Before I’ve made the statement that, during the ‘60s, it was the Greatest Generation ‘journalists’ holding a microphone in front of a zonked out hippie, or some raging anti-war nutcase, and pretending those maladjusted characters had some great wisdom to impart to the world. The GG put the hippies and anti-war protesters and underminers on the evening news and treated them like great pillars of knowledge and wisdom.
And, many of the changes in laws, and in education and school curriculums, and the tearing down of traditional values, all this started when the GG held most all the power and influence in American society. The Boomers never really came to power until 1992 with the election of Slick Willie. Of course, they’d been steadily entering more positions of power and influence before then, but the GG held the reigns of power well into the 1980s, and vast changes in traditional values and institutions had taken place by that time.
So, this deconstruction of America didn’t start with the Boomers and it won’t end with them. Lots of shortsighted, wishful thinking going on if anyone believes the end of Boomer dominance in society will really change much. It’s also Boomers who fought and held back many of these trends. The Boomers were something near a 50/50 generation when it came to supporting or going against the trends discussed in the article, just as the entire country seems to be on most issues today.
Good point: I’m not a boomer (somewhere inbetween X-and Mellinial born 1980), however our nation has evil in all generations and WE must fight it (plus I know many in parents gen that have been on the right side of many issues, of course some of them have been manipulated into not going far enough because of the culture we live in).