Agree. As a guy about half the age of the average freeper, I think many of these boomers grew up hiding under desks in nuke drills and can’t get away from that mindset.
“I think many of these boomers grew up hiding under desks in nuke drills and can’t get away from that mindset.”
I agree with you. I just had my annual “Father’s Day” phone call with dear old boomer dad who has never missed an episode of “Fox and Friends” or Hannity. (I might make it every two years going forward)
He informs me he wakes up every day hoping Putin is dead. Ukraine is of course winning, by a mile. And he’s proudly ignorant of never having heard of Minsk II, the nucleus of the entire conflict. Furthermore, he refuses to know what it is in some bizarre civic duty.
There is nothing at all patriotic about being stupid.
You’re right. I’m a boomer myself, but fear too many are thick-skulled neocons. Most had their blue & yellow lapel pins on before social media told them to do it. Golly, they love themselves a good bloody war…especially when they get to order the deaths of other people’s children.
This boomer was right there in the fight during the Cold War and saw what the Soviet defeat really meant for those who for a great number of decades stood in endless queues for food, and other goods, years long waiting lists to move into a questionably "better" apartment, or purchasing gas on the fly from a black market truck on the highway. The Russian people would never go back to Communism and neither would Putin.
This Russia/Ukraine conflict became a little clearer to me when I found out my next door neighbor who for many years had said she and her late husband were Jewish people from Moscow who fled from Russian repression, but after this invasion told me she was an ethnic Ukrainian and thought Zelenskyy was the greatest leader who ever lived. She had never made a distinction between Russian and Ukrainian up until then.