[Oshkalaboomboom]

It took a generation to cause this mess and people expect Donald Trump to fix it in less than 4 years with the help of an uncooperative house and senate.

[Rashputin]

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
Ronald Reagan

The question is whether the Boomers were that one generation or if their children are because either way, anyone over fifty is already having a hard time explaining to their kids how different this country is now from the country when they grew up.

[qaz123]

Took more than a generation, but this is a great documentary,if you haven’t already heard about it or seen it.

Generation Zero, by Steve Bannon and David Bossie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsqu9gh6xhk

also, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNS0oE5POL4

[TigerLikesRooster]

And the resident ‘former’ Boomer hippies here scream whenever I point out things like this.

[familyop]

"This is because Baby Boomers — the hippy generation — raised the Millennials. The Boomers revolted against their traditional parents and indulged their children. It’s been described as the “Me Generation” raising the “Me Me Me Generation.” Instead of taking on the tough parenting role of teaching their kids economics and the value of saving, they took the easy route and spoiled them."

Hey, Rachel Alexander, sweetie. Did you wander away from your group home and get lost? Or did you not have any children of your own? Anyone who didn't see the glaring error here is either a little slow or blinded by an emotion.

[familyop]

"It took a generation to cause this mess..."

It took more than two generations. There are no real conservatives prominent or influential in politics and haven't been for more than two generations. We haven't seen the real mess, yet.

First, the younger people are no more socialist than those benefiting from the current paradigm of socialism. Some 40 million Americans receive their incomes from government now, and many of them falsely call themselves conservatives while pointing fingers.

Younger people will probably go through hardships that we cannot imagine. Most of the rest of us are spoiled rotten and have had it easy. Currently, our leaders in politics, academia and business are continuing to heap monstrous debts, world war and horrid shortages of resources on them after having deprived them of fathers through atrocious social policies and laws.

They'll have every reason and right to do exactly what so many contemporary, prevailing socialists are fearing so much.

[familyop]

Sorry about insulting the author after seeing errors in the details (e.g., most Baby Boomers too old to have Millennial kids). Her thesis is quite correct. But many Gen-X-ers did further perpetuate the evils started by many Baby Boomers.

[ronnie raygun]

How do you correct a way of life now? Government money and entitlements are more comparable if not better than working.

[Tax-chick]

people expect Donald Trump to fix it in less than 4 years

No reasonable person ever expected Donald Trump to "fix" anything. However, his election has prevented the appointment to the Federal judiciary of those known to be crazy leftists.

[miss marmelstein]

Actually, families used to stay together until they got married. They worked, of course, and helped out at home. My next door neighbor for many years had the entire nuclear family living at home. The “children” worked, bought their own cars and phones, and had their own friends and hobbies. I saw nothing wrong with it and a lot that was right. I made my first move at 17-18 and hated my roommates and my flats. If life had been more livable at home, I would have stayed there happily.

[WatchungEagle]

The entire article could have been reduced to this:

“Wages have been falling since 1970, with a significant decline from 2000 to 2010.”