>>>Another odd thing, is that people totally ignore the generation before the boomers, the generation of the 1960s, the McCain, Fonda, Bob Dylan, Doors, Beatles, Bill Ayers, Chicago Seven, Jimi Hendrix generation. >>>
I’ve always likened the ‘60’s to the Children’s Crusade against the Moslems of the 13th Century. The children never returned home; they died of diseases, capture, starvation and killing. So many of the ‘60s children met the same deaths.
Some who survived the ‘60s stayed home, others are lost to their families. The big difference is the introduction of illegal drugs.
Well many were dying in Vietnam and later in Desert Storm, Iraq and Afghanistan, the boomers produced close to 9.5 million veterans.
Many don’t know that the democrats only got 47% of the under 30 vote in 1968 (which was almost entirely silent generation), and 46% in 1972 (which was almost entirely boomers), also the age group that most supported the Vietnam war was the under 30 age group, not the older generations.