[SoCal Pubbie]

I am a baby boomer.

I was eleven at the time of Woodstock, and wouldn’t turn twelve until late in the fall. I’ve never done LSD, cocaine, meth, or other hard drug and I’ve smoked pot on just three occasions, the last time about forty-two years ago. Unlike Bill, I did inhale but didn’t get high I guess because I had already been drinking.

I’ve been a Republican since I’ve been eligible to vote. I’m no saint, but I’m no tyrant either. I can’t recall advocating that other generations not be allowed to have fun. In fact, I’ve opposed the nanny state and it’s rules that prohibit fun for all in the futile quest for absolute safety.

I never mocked those older than me nor coined phrases like “Okay old timer.” I know history began before the time that I can remember, and that despite all the changes in the world human nature hasn’t really changed all that much over thousands of years.

I guess there’s just no app for that.

[Luke21]

You and I are exactly the same age. I also was eleven that year.

The boomers as I see it brought about all these laws putting bike helmets on people’s heads, etc...and get or got offended by everything at one time. Seems like they vote better as they get older. By 1980, many of us became Republicans. We weren’t lifelong rebels.

I was a Reagan Democrat, but supported Nixon I’ve voted for one Democrat ever; Carter. I hated Gerald Ford.

Another interesting thing people don’t notice is that there were two groups, the coastal boomers, represented by Woodstock and Haight Asbury, and the rural boomers, who smoked and drank and fished and shot guns, but grew their hair out. It is still apparent in today’s political divide.