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GI and Baby Boomers Encounter the Worst Generation of All
Townhall.com ^ | September 5, 2020 | Lloyd Pettegrew

Posted on 09/04/2020 8:44:56 AM PDT by Kaslin

The Greatest generation, or G.I. generation, is generally defined as people born from 1901 to 1927; many of our parents populated that generation. The Baby Boomer generation was born between 1946 and 1964, after WWII and at the beginning of Vietnam. Both generations are being accosted, sometimes physically in blue check cities, but certainly psychologically and spiritually, by the Gen Z generation born between 1996 and 2013 and the late Millennial generation born from 1990-1996. New York Magazine’s Eric Levitz has identifies this group as America’s most socialist and misanthropic generation—dystopian socialists. 

One only has to review the sickening recordings of the recent “peaceful protesters” around our nation-- Atlanta, Saint Louis, Seattle, New York City, Minneapolis, Chicago, Oakland, Denver, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Trenton, Atlantic City, Boston, Louisville, Bakersfield, Columbus, Dallas, Des Moines, Detroit, Los Angeles, Sacramento, Phoenix, San Jose and Portland to confirm the “peaceful” perps were almost exclusively young adults born between 1990 and 2002—people who have been brainwashed into progressivism by their education and lack of ambition or work for a living. Reading between the lines, CNN’s Don Lemon said as much about the rioters, “I don’t think the rioters are listening, and I don’t think they care what Joe Biden says.” He was correct, the rioters were caught in a matrix of their own making.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: babyboomers; clinteastwood; culture; genz; greatestgeneration; joebiden
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1 posted on 09/04/2020 8:44:56 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
Gen Z generation born between 1996 and 2013 and the late Millennial generation born from 1990-1996.

Follow the timeline. What happened at the start of this period?

Answer: The Berlin Wall came down, the USSR fell, and we quit teaching ANYTHING about the horrors of Socialism and Communism in our schools.


2 posted on 09/04/2020 8:48:12 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: Kaslin; Drew68; Levy78

For your interest.


3 posted on 09/04/2020 8:48:32 AM PDT by KC_Lion
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To: Kaslin

Meme I saw that fits this article:

1950: In 70 years I bet we have flying cars!

2020: This syrup is racist.


4 posted on 09/04/2020 8:48:45 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Prediction: G. Maxwell will surprise eOnveryone by not dying anytime soon.)
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To: Kaslin

The Greatest Generation,made weary by two wars,were far too soft with my generation,the Boomers. And it was all down hill from there.


5 posted on 09/04/2020 8:50:27 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The Rats Just Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election!)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Follow the timeline. What happened at the start of this period?

And these two Satan worshipping vermin were in control of our government, our schools, and our policies.


6 posted on 09/04/2020 8:52:48 AM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

I’ve been pretty skeptical of the Strauss-Howe generation theory stuff since I read their book back in the 90s, but I think there’s something to that aspect of it. I was born in 1980, which puts me in the youngest part of the “Thirteenth Generation” (or Gen X) according to them. My wife was born in 1984, an older Millennial. While we have a lot in common in our upbringing, the fact that I am just old enough to remember the tail end of the Cold War and she is not is a significant difference.


7 posted on 09/04/2020 8:53:27 AM PDT by The Pack Knight
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To: Kaslin

Those born between 1925-1945 are the Silent or Traditionalist Generation


8 posted on 09/04/2020 8:55:10 AM PDT by PIF (`)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

“Answer: The Berlin Wall came down, the USSR fell, and we quit teaching ANYTHING about the horrors of Socialism and Communism in our schools.”

Excellent observation. I hadn’t considered that.


9 posted on 09/04/2020 8:55:25 AM PDT by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: Gay State Conservative
The Greatest Generation,made weary by two wars,were far too soft with my generation,the Boomers. And it was all down hill from there.

The "Greatest Generation" voted in every socialist policy that came before them, imported every third worlder who asked to come here, gave the nation away, and has made us a hated minority in our own country.

10 posted on 09/04/2020 8:55:36 AM PDT by Drew68 (Fiery but mostly peaceful.)
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To: The Pack Knight

I’ve never heard of them


11 posted on 09/04/2020 9:00:36 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

They are the worst generation and many of us have come to the conclusion that many of them are expendable.


12 posted on 09/04/2020 9:01:04 AM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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Then there's this: There's another one that breaks it down by race. Trump did better among males within every group, got HUGE majorities of white males and females, and a thin majority of Asian males, and lost all other demographics badly. Generation Z whites will likely be the most conservative generation yet, but they are outnumbered. Some Republican in the future might have to seek their votes to get elected. THE HORROR!!
13 posted on 09/04/2020 9:02:23 AM PDT by cdcdawg (Biden has dementia.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

The “Greatest generation” did nothing when universities were filled with leftist professors.


14 posted on 09/04/2020 9:07:25 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: Kaslin

I remember reading that “Every generation is a new wave of barbarians who need to be civilized.”

It’s true that we are all born into a culture and civilization that’s been fully formed and ready-made for us by people long ago, that we will never meet but to whom we ALL owe everything.

We are the direct, immediate recipients of their suffering, effort, discoveries, and knowledge. THEY did all the work... WE get all the many benefits. We only need to cultivate and nurture what we have all been so fortunate to inherit. What a tremendous gift!

WHY do these waves of destructive, demanding, ungrateful and selfish people think they must destroy the very system through which and ON which, their very ability to challenge us is grounded?

The institutions, language, society, traditions, values, etc. from which they launch their hateful attacks on the rest of us have been handed to them, GRATIS! It reminds me of the cartoon character sitting on the tree limb HE is sawing off.

Change is fine even necessary, but only IF it’s change for the better. These destructive throwbacks don’t characterize that at all.


15 posted on 09/04/2020 9:10:27 AM PDT by SMARTY (“Rudeness is a weak person's imitation of strength.” Eric Hoffer)
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To: Kaslin

Some of us are astute enough to know that the “Greatest Generation” could credibly qualify as the worst generation in America over the last 100 years.


16 posted on 09/04/2020 9:11:31 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("We're human beings ... we're not f#%&ing animals." -- Dennis Rodman, 6/1/2020)
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To: Kaslin
We did our children no favors when we pushed the idea that both parents needed to be in the workplace. Once that happened, more of our children's lives were controlled by forced outside of the home.

I'm not saying women shouldn't have gone to work. The decision to do so made it easier for the left and the education system to manipulate generations of kids.

17 posted on 09/04/2020 9:13:14 AM PDT by CatOwner
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To: CatOwner

*forces


18 posted on 09/04/2020 9:13:54 AM PDT by CatOwner
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To: CatOwner

it would be nice if people would plan their families so that someone could be available to take care of the kiddos.


19 posted on 09/04/2020 9:20:01 AM PDT by ronniesgal (Q. why did the chicken cross the road? A. It's Trumps fault and you're a racist!)
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To: The Pack Knight

Interesting. I was born in 78 and my wife in 82 and the differences feel significant at times. Of course I grew up much, much faster than she did. :-)


20 posted on 09/04/2020 9:21:01 AM PDT by Levy78
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