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I am a Boomer too. How could my comments cause "inter-generational friction." I cannot make sense out of your remark about 45. Anyone that is in there early forties is just on the very last edge of being a boomer. When we take about Boomers' we are generally talking about people in their 50's. Are you saying that the average age of congress or the people with real power are 45? Of course they are not, they are in their fifties or sixties, particulalry in the Senate. The reason why there are few vets in congress is that they are not indicative of the the boomer generation. It is not because they are under 45. In the corridors of power, few reach the upper offices in their mid-forties

The influence of the left on the boomers is indicated by the fact that the Democrats made the generation shift to power in the early nineties while the conservative side of the Boomer generation made the shift later.

The sad fact is that the establishment is chuck full of liberal boomers and they have come to charterize the our generation at this point, not the conservative side.

And generations, like nations, have a character, it does not apply to every member of it, of course, but it is quite possible - and even necessary - to characterize groups, and that includes generations. We can with some accuracy describe the Victorians as opposed to their "surrounding generations. History will do the same to our generation, like it or not.

And given the problems that our generation has cause, I should not be surprised to find generatio friction, here or elsewhere, and things will tend more toward this as we retire. THat is why this election is so important (or one of the reasons) if Bush can win and we can "finish the Regan Revolution," so to speak, or reverberation through American history and who we are judged by those that come after us will be radically different than if there were a reemergence of the left and they should shape our future.

You now, I think we are just going to have to agree to disagree on much of this.

While I agree that there is a generational character, I do not think that attributing all ills to our generation is helpful, and it DOES provide fuelfor those who wish to profit over intergenerational warfare. Read some of tthe Gen X threads if you don't think this is true.

In New York and California, I am sure it is true that there are mostly liberals in the Boomer generation. In MY state, Indiana, this is not the case. In much of the south and southwest it would also be hard to characterize Boomers as liberals.

Plus, people change as they get older. Two of my sisters have crossed parties, much as I did in 1980. I doubt they return to the folds of the DNC; they are too disgusted with the lack of responsibility and anti-Americanism of the current liberals.

However, enough of this discussion. You have your point of view, and I have mine. No point in going over the same ground and wasting bandwidth.