A controlled news landscape is more accurate.
Posted on 10/13/2019 8:51:10 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
The pitched battle over impeachment is the last-gasp struggle of a generation that has dominated American politics, media and culture for more than half a century — the Baby Boomers.
It couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of people.
I say this as a member of that tribe (although one on the, ahem, younger end of the timeline), someone who’s lived through the endless political and cultural wars painted in stark black-and-white by a group that only sees life in terms of Us-vs.-Them. It’s a generation, convinced of its own importance, that refuses to leave the public stage: The president, the speaker of the House, and just about all the top-tier Democratic presidential candidates are Boomers, pushing aside anyone below the age of 70.
Along with politics, their influence over media has been profound, turning a once-sober news landscape into a wrestling arena filled with ideologically-driven commentary.
It began from a place anyone could understand. The 1960s presented young people with constant challenges to American ideals: attacks on civil rights, traumatic political assassinations, the war in Vietnam and government lies that allowed that war to continue. Out of that shock to the system emerged the “underground press.” This movement informed a generation that mainstream media couldn’t be trusted, journalistic objectivity was a farce, and factual truth was less important than a “deeper truth.”
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(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
The Great Dream of the Liberal Left.
Once all the old, racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, islamophobics et. al. die out the United States of America will become the greatest liberal Utopia anyone could imagine.
There will be no crime because everyone will have everything they need (bonus: there won't be a need for police and prisons).
Schools will be fully funded and everyone will be a straight A student!
Integrated neighborhoods will flourish in the wake of racial love and harmony.
Borders? Who needs stinkin' borders?
Government-run corporations will act responsibly to their workers and the environment. No one will remember what pollution was.
Man-made global warming will stop. No more storms, droughts, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes.
All this and so much more when the old white people are gone.
President Eisenhower warned us of the “Military Industrial Complex” which made huge profits on war. They spread out into government to accumulate tax monies for their projects. They had been winning until the current President.
Name one ruling class “elected” democrat in power that hasn’t set up nepotism. Pelosi, biden, clintoon and how many others. We do not have a democracy, we have an aristocracy.
Years ago, someone quoted how much money was required to be on committees and congress in general. We the people are not invited.
good comments there,! yesthatjallen...
the COMMIE members of the boomers have created chaos as they have been directed..
AaaHHH ths 60’s
Eleanor Cliff still has scars on her butt from having had sex on the concrete sidewalk with Bill Clinton outside the ‘68 Democrat convention
In that same farewell speech Eisenhower also warned against Big Science funded and ideologically driven by government. The CACC (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Change) people come to mind.
If you continuously break small laws, then, you think it’s OK to break major laws.
If you continuously tell small lies, then, you think it’s OK to tell large lies.
If you continuously steal small sums of money, then, you think it’s OK to steal large sums of money.
Our Pastor always said; - “ Hell burped in the 70’s!”
A controlled news landscape is more accurate.
For the record, I blame their parents.
The core motive of Democrats is the violent annihilation of Christianity.
Author Ferullo starts out sounding pretty reasonable, but waits until nearly the end of his piece before taking a shot at Trump.
Then he makes the risible statement that today’s youth possess a higher level of news judgment than their Baby Boom elders.
A promising opinion piece that turned out to be a waste of my time.
Of the four pictured, only Donald Trump is a baby boomer. The other three, not hardly. Too old.
The President, born in June 1946, just barely qualifies as a Boomer, having been born (and conceived) after the surrender of both Germany and Japan. Biden was born in 1942 during the War so doesn’t. Pelosi and Sanders were both born before the U.S. even entered the War (before the attack on Pearl Harbor) so don’t come close to being a Boomer. I was born in October of 1945 but was conceived before the War ended so I don’t consider myself one.
Yes— and the second generation Stalinist descendants will take over the wheelchairs of the dying liberal left, and kill them at will as they remove the “Useful Idiots” that opened the doors to them.... in the name of ME ME ME Socialism.
It’s all in the communist manual. Proof: the shooting war between the Bolsheviks/communists and the Socialist Revolutionary Party (the so-called Rightist- SR, who supported Kerensky’s “govt.”). The Bolshies slaughtered them.
The current crop of Kerenskies are the dem party— and further left of them... the ocasio “green deal” . Pelosi leads the “italian wing” of neo-socialists in direct competition with the crazed Bolshies of the ultra left (see Bernie’s comments about Warren.. who is just a lying crook opportunist).
The whole panoply is there.
Here’s a video from a true story: Reilly, Ace of Spies. He really existed and really was there. We, unfortunately had President Wilson— who had no clue, then had a stroke, and his wife took over.
All will be possible if these a@@clowns are allowed to continue to be funded by Soros, and push the globalist/marxist agenda. It has to stop... NOW.
The ceeee eyyyyye ehhhhh is filled with liberal leftists and their spawn from button down scholarship hahvahd. The whistleblower— is one-— an 08 grad of Yale, and aide to obamaumao thinks he is the “anointed” to preserve the “revolution”. Run by a commie infiltrator— Brennan. They ALL have to be removed. They cannot be allowed to remain, and the entire department cleaned out— and not on the info coming from Putin or any chi-com agents there.
Looks like a smug SOB to me.
Well, the author has valid criticisms of the baby boomers, but so far it looks like the millennials will be even worse - perhaps much worse.
Ha! I wouldn't count too heavily on these younger consumers who are swallowing Tide Pods and don't know the difference between a boy and a girl.
“...Pelosi and Sanders were both born before the U.S. even entered the War (before the attack on Pearl Harbor)...”
More like Pelosi and Sanders were both born before the U.S. even entered the Spanish-American War (before the attack on the USS Maine).
I’m a Boomer born in 1948 but I’m not yet a fossil. My mind is still youthful & believes that a man is only as old as the woman he feels.
;^)
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