The Shallowest Generation

Raging Debate.com ^ | 11/3/08 | Jim Quinn

[iThinkBig]

As a 38 year business person, I have mixed views on this article. Part of me says the Boomers built some incredible technology innovations that spurred many years of growth. The other part of me says that human nature protects itself and that this group has become very short sighted in the last decade.

[A CA Guy]

In the last 40 years, the Democrats have enacted lots of socialism and power for their party by getting lots of people working through the state and federal jobs.
Boomers are the greatest benefactors of all that.
I believe if the Democrats would not have all the built in federal and state employee connected votes, they would not have 38% of the people who vote for them every election.

That’s what comes to mind for me reading this.
It’s easy to take things given you and the Boomers have been fairly big takers IMO.

[sageb1]

Frankly, I’m pretty sick of these articles. I’m a baby boomer. The half of this country that is voting McCain has my half of boomers to thank for fighting to preserve traditional values.

[Wage Slave]

Unfair to paint us all with the same brush. I’m part of that generation, have always lived a Spartan existence, saved money, raised 3 conservative children, two of whom served in the military.

When I came of age in the 70’s, it was a done deal. The generation before mine, the so-called “Greatest Generation,” was in power when our country was destroyed from within.

[A_Former_Democrat]

I’ve felt for a long time that Baby Boomers are the first dysfunctional generation. We were a far cry from our elders. They had morals and values and patriotism. Families stayed together and prayed together. What’s worse, this seems to be handed down from generation to generation.

[GoLightly]

Stop believing in the cohort nonsense. Take a look at your own cohort & imagine getting defined by the worst of those in your age group.

[Catholic Canadian]

I’m about your age and most of the boomers in Canada are leftard wank-jobs. Most of us in our 30s are Conservative and our parents don’t understand. How’s that for rebelling against the previous generation?

[tcostell]

Last decade? They dominated the culture of the 60's and 70's and you think that was farsighted?

Personally I think it's a longer trend than that.

[ladtx]

Jim Quinn needs to quit his whining and yapping about the boomers and find something constructive to do with his time.

[Glenn]

Quinn is entertaining but addled. Take him with a grain of salt.

[PGR88]

I am a gen-X’er. I look at the Baby Boomers, probably in some ways like they saw their elders. Instead of anger though, I am more puzzled by their behavior.

I don’t like to generalize, but I see children who came of age in a time of great prosperity and societal unity in the 50’s and 60’s, but never really grew up. Too spoiled, too sheltered.

Bill Ayers is a poster-child for the failings of the Baby Boomers. Son of rich Chicago Brahmins, he grew up in peace and comfort, and played out his suburban rage to an extreme. The fact this brat playing with fire wasn’t assissinated years ago is a great testament to the rule-of-law, peace and tolerance of these United States. He still lives in peace and prosperity even now.

Even in his 60’s Ayers still writing books (that have some audience, if small) about Communist nonsense that are historically wrong and ideologically fantastical. There are many “Boomers” still living in their fantasy worlds also.

[GoLightly]

Take a look at the birth-dates of all 1960s icons. The elders of the boomers dominated the culture & the boomers got blamed. Yeah, disco sucked & I hate to take the blame for it, but most of everything that followed it wasn't anything to write home about either.

[Night Hides Not]

Frankly, I’m pretty sick of these articles.

Me too...Boomers won the Cold War under the leadership of Ronald Reagan.

Boomers like me got the All Volunteer Force off the ground back in the Carter years.

David Petraeus is a Boomer.

Screeds like these pop up when a columnist has writer's block and has less than two hours to make his deadline.

[Toki]

I can see that. I can also seem my generation not steping up (including myself... I’m trying... It’ll be easier when I can drive). I’m in college right now and we are a generation caught within itself. We have our Ipod’s and the internet, and parents that are supporting us (Most willing, I know my parents won’t even let me consider student loans, I’m getting them next semester). The one’s who are supporting themselves are few, but they’ll go farther in life in my opinion. That’s because they have had to face reality already.

We all have some culpability, however, just like I have some hope that the older generation is learning (PUMA’s show me this) I also hear about soldiers coming back from Iraq who can’t stand what they have heard from RINO’s and Dems, wanting to get into politics to change it for good. I still have hope when I hear things like that.

[RobinOfKingston]

The attitude of the “Greatest Gen” that they would be sure their kids a better life than theirs was is big time to blame here. They should have said they would be sure their kids got out there and made a better life for themselves.

I’m 62, chronologically a boomer, but because of family circumstances, I am mentally of the Depression era. That is where the family that produced me was forged.

I have said for years, only half jokingly, that we Americans are too affluent for our own good.

[prismsinc]

This is something I’ve posted about before. Before I go on, I’d like to remind people of Rush, Hannity, Levin, Palin, Savage, my wife, etc.

Now as to he “Boomer” argument, I submit to you that the radical portion of the “Boomer” generation, which really are the group referred to here, is part of the seed planted by their 40’s era parents, as exampled by the Dunhams. To understand this faction, you have to understand its roots. They brainwashed their kids to act like normal citizens, while masking their hidden anarchist/marxist ties. This is part of the darker side of our hstory, sadly.

[GoLightly]

Ayers was born in Dec 1944. He ain’t one of ours.

[CottonBall]

I’ve felt for a long time that Baby Boomers are the first dysfunctional generation. We were a far cry from our elders. They had morals and values and patriotism. Families stayed together and prayed together. What’s worse, this seems to be handed down from generation to generation.

Not all Boomers, by a long shot though. But there are certainly enough hippies from the '60s that are parents that have passed down the culture of dysfunctionality to their Generation X offspring. You're right in that once a set of parents divorces, dates, remarries, puts the kids in day care - and everything else they can think of to ruin their kids' lives - the next generation seems to follow suit without thinking, adding in shacking up and illegitimate babies to the mix. I've seen it over and over. And of course, nobody ever takes responsibility for starting the downhill roll.

[Americanexpat]

This A hole talking about sacrifices of baby boomers. Me and milluions of others like me must be traitors to our generation.

[rochester_veteran]

Frankly, I’m pretty sick of these articles. I’m a baby boomer. The half of this country that is voting McCain has my half of boomers to thank for fighting to preserve traditional values.

Same here, I'm sick of this slamming of our generation. If it weren't for the boomers, Ronaldus Magnus would not have been elected. If it weren't for the boomers, the conservative movement would be dead in its heels.

I volunteered to serve our country at the end of the Vietnam War. Most who served were volunteers. We boomers sacrificed over 50,000 lives in Vietnam, only to be betrayed by a Congress that chose to turn their backs on us and give South Vietnam to the Communists. Was it boomers who were in office back in the early 70's when this happened?