Let me guess: you're on the Gen X ping list.
Baloney.
OMG Howlin, have we entered some kind of t.v. hell? Michael Moore is next.
Let me guess: you're on the Gen X ping list.
I don't know about that, but I'm just about certain he's going to turn up on the Missing List when the white coats do a bed check. ;)
So far Boomers as a social force has been on the liberal side, not the conservative side - the modern conservative movement was in fact not origianlly a Boomer movement. The cultural, intellectual and unelected government functionaries in what we call "the establishment" are overwhelmingly Boomer now, and overwhelmingly liberal. Even the GOP is more moderate that it is truly conservative. That is just what the culture war is about. It is the "progressive activist" of the sixites that defines our generation, not the Vietnam Vet.
Perhaps GWB and CO. will turn the tide but at this point it reamains to be seen. That is in fact why this election is so bitter - it is a tbattle for the soul of a generation. It is not "baloney" at all, nothing could be more obvious. That does not mean that it tars all of us in that generation or that you should take it personally. But if they are not defeated they will in fact tar our entire generation.
Evey generation as a "youth movement," the point is that the "youth movement" of our generation was hijacked by the hard left and that the sheer size of the Bommer generation was so large that it created and impact beyond the norm. This is precisely what the 1960's were, and are, about.
To fight the good fight against the left it is necessary to look the Boomers straight in the eye for the damage that our generation has wrought. Not all of us, of course, but enough.
And Bill Clinton and his wife clearly articulate this aspect of our generation, like it or not.