Posted on 10/21/2025 2:47:13 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
It’s funny because for the longest time, it was conservatives who were faulted for embracing retrograde notions and ideas. But in 2025, it seems, the retrograde people are mostly on the Left.
Not solely, though. There is a contingent of people who call themselves conservatives who are, without a doubt, retrograde. We’ll get to that in a minute.
But first, let me echo the excellent points made yesterday here at The American Spectator by David Catron, who castigated what he rightly called the “ridiculous” No Kings rally on Saturday. The rally, which supposedly drew some $294 million in funding from the Usual Suspects on the Left/Democrat side to turn out what its organizers claimed was seven million people (in actuality, it was more like one tenth that many) at some 2,700 sites, was a collection of nasty, unhinged, and bitter people, a seeming large majority of which were exceedingly old. (RELATED: The Ridiculous No Kings Protest)
These people sure were ready to talk a lot of smack for folks who couldn’t defend themselves against air in a kinetic fight.
Quite strange, the No-Kingsers. These people sure were ready to talk a lot of smack for folks who couldn’t defend themselves against air in a kinetic fight.
When overweight, unhealthy five-foot-two elderly women are out in public talking about killing Donald Trump and the people who work for him, it really does call into question what kind of out-of-touch mass psychosis we have allowed to infect the elderly in this country.
I don’t warrant that these pathetic boomers in their tie-dyed t-shirts and slip-on Skechers screeching for Trump’s head are representative of a whole generation. In reality, they’re more like half. But they certainly represent the worst of that generation’s thinking, and their perspective represents the establishment of that generation...
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
Ageism. Surprising enlightened liberals feel no problem doing this to a demogrpahic they cater and pander to in every other way possible.
Pretty good column. Enjoyable reading.
Not stated but:
Lots of Boomers are enthusiastic MAGA. We have been working toward it our entire lives!
Great post and very true!!
You mean the demographic they blame for everything possible?
Oh and the reason that a lot of them were there was a four hundred dollar payment for two hours of standing around holding a sign. It's not exactly honest but if the democrats are willing to throw their money at people there are those that are going to take it.
About half of us old farts are republican. Our brains still work.
It is VERY interesting how of all the videos of the protesters I couldn’t spot one minority, they’re all geezer aged white people. What’s up with that?
What the hell is that supposed to mean?!? 😁
“But first, let me echo the excellent points made yesterday here at The American Spectator by David Catron, who castigated what he rightly called the “ridiculous” No Kings rally on Saturday. The rally, which supposedly drew some $294 million in funding from the Usual Suspects on the Left/Democrat side to turn out what its organizers claimed was seven million people (in actuality, it was more like one tenth that many) at some 2,700 sites, was a collection of nasty, unhinged, and bitter people, a seeming large majority of which were exceedingly old.”- from the article.
I know exactly who these people are. I began my college experience with many just like them in 1969. Most of the “hippies” were exactly what Abbie Hoffman said about them- “10% protest and 90% party”. They were there, didn’t know what they were protesting and were just there for the drugs and the “free love”.
A good many smartened up later in life, many others did not. What we saw on Saturday was that lot- embittered, full of regret, aging without grace, having lived unfulfilled lives of their own making, and always searching for the next Woodstock.
I look around at this broken world and I know that we Boomers will have a lot to answer for.
You may not have heard the story of my first day at an elite college.
I was unpacking my stuff and saw the guy across the hall was doing the same thing.
I walked over to him, shook his hand and introduced myself.
I said “Hello, nice to meet you, my name is _____.”
He pulled his hand away, glared at me with what I would later realize was a Charles Manson stare, and said “I am a Marxist”.
The year was 1970.
You’re either a conservative or you’re not.
This ideology and the mindset of those it appeals to has never changed since the Garden.
Marx didn’t dream up something new. Neither did Alinsky or Cloward and Piven. And it certainly wasn’t something new with Sanger or Blavatsky.
Same old playbook- different generation.
Old Climate-Change Methane Bomb?
The minority folks couldn’t get off from work to protest the King /s
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