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Baby boomers not all alike
Sun News/ Myrtlebeachonline ^ | 7/11/04 | Jeffrey Zaslow

Posted on 07/12/2004 9:38:33 AM PDT by qam1

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To: wtc911; nmh
Johnson's Great Society, 1965-1966....total number of "boomers" with the right to vote......ZERO.

Are all your posts this inaccurate?

The BB born in 1946 were 18 in 1964.

ALL OF THREE MILLION OF THEM.

You add '47, '48, '49, and '50, and you've got about sixteen million people.

201 posted on 07/12/2004 2:32:39 PM PDT by Howlin (John Kerry & John Edwards: Political Malpractice)
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To: CyberCowboy777
and the majority of the boomers did embrace at least parts of the culture.

You are SO wrong.

202 posted on 07/12/2004 2:33:23 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (Hair? Ya wanna talk about hair? President REAGAN had a NICE head of hair!!)
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To: wtc911
As I have stated - Mr. Clinton is the product of the pervasive culture of the boomer generation (as was Mr. Bush for many years).

Also as I have stated - GenXers and Gray Panther voted by wider margins than Boomers for Clinton.
203 posted on 07/12/2004 2:34:08 PM PDT by CyberCowboy777 (Veritas vos liberabit)
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To: CyberCowboy777
Nobody here, certainly not me, expects anyone to believe that 99% of all boomers where/are bad people.

Sure as heck couldn't prove it from reading these threads.....

204 posted on 07/12/2004 2:34:18 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (Hair? Ya wanna talk about hair? President REAGAN had a NICE head of hair!!)
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To: wtc911

it's ok :0)


205 posted on 07/12/2004 2:38:37 PM PDT by Mo1
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To: Mo1
painting a pretty broad brush there

I suppose. I look at my parents and my parents, parents generations. They had nothing. They tried to give my generation everything. I have relatives in their 70's, 80's, and 90's. These people are good, hardworking, and moral. But, they would vote democrat regardless of any value they hold. It isn't the "liberalness", it is the democratness. It transcends their religion, their morals, their cognitive knowingness. The mindset, or whatever it is, rules. As far as my generation, the boomers--- a group of socialists took hold of this "mindset" and ran with it. Collectively, we have nearly all moved left of center. Broadbrushed strokes??? I just call it like I see it. Maybe my paintbrush is faulty. I just don't think so. It is more, IMHO, than accepting "liberalism." And of course there is a fight.

206 posted on 07/12/2004 2:38:54 PM PDT by exhaustedmomma (Mary Landrieu challenged any Sen/Cong. to prove F-911 wrong this morning on FOX. GOP- get busy.)
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To: Brad's Gramma
"Gosh, beef. I know a wholelotta late 20-mid 30 year old people who refuse to grow up. But hey. Somehow that's fine. Right?"


I have no problem with not growing up. As long as you're not stuck in an angry adolescent crisis, like the leftists are.
207 posted on 07/12/2004 2:40:08 PM PDT by beef ("Blessed are the geeks, for they shall inherit the earth.")
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To: CyberCowboy777

How old are you?


208 posted on 07/12/2004 2:40:35 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (Hair? Ya wanna talk about hair? President REAGAN had a NICE head of hair!!)
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To: xsmommy
okay.

But you are wrong in that you are limited.

Philosophies do not transcend generations without being changed and shaped by generations.

I do not blame any one individual, I just understand the generationtional progression.

You are free to limit your understanding, but I know you don't. Just from talking with you I can see you understand the generational impacts. You just don't put it in the same words out of fear of being "unfair".

209 posted on 07/12/2004 2:41:19 PM PDT by CyberCowboy777 (Veritas vos liberabit)
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To: Brad's Gramma
Sure as heck couldn't prove it from reading these threads.....

Then you have not read the entire thread.

210 posted on 07/12/2004 2:43:51 PM PDT by CyberCowboy777 (Veritas vos liberabit)
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To: CyberCowboy777

so you admit that what it comes down to is the definition of GENERATION? because we are using the word differently, i am sure you can tell that. i am not worried about being unfair at all, i am using common sense. and yes, philosophies DO transcend generations.


211 posted on 07/12/2004 2:44:27 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: CyberCowboy777

I've read enough of this one and enough of others to see.

It's a rather liberal mind-set, IMO, to blame one group of people for all of the problems in society.


212 posted on 07/12/2004 2:45:16 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (Hair? Ya wanna talk about hair? President REAGAN had a NICE head of hair!!)
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To: Brad's Gramma
What is a majority? 51%?

Can we agree?

Now look at the voting trends of Boomers.

Now look at the TV viewing trends of Boomers.

Now look at the Best Seller trends and so on.

The majority of boomers are center/left, left of the Conservative culture.
213 posted on 07/12/2004 2:46:59 PM PDT by CyberCowboy777 (Veritas vos liberabit)
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To: CyberCowboy777
The problem, and the understanding I try to reach is the progression leftward, generation by generation. To ignore anyone generation in that analysis is intellectually dishonest.

They why use something as irrelevant as the Baby Boomer years... some were infants and others were almost adults when certain events happened. The next generation in my family began in 1992... while my neighbor's next generation started about ten years earlier.

Why not do so simply decade by decade... and stop assigning blame for events that individuals didn't personally uphold.

214 posted on 07/12/2004 2:48:41 PM PDT by Tamzee (Flush the Johns before they flood the White House!)
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To: Brad's Gramma

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215 posted on 07/12/2004 2:48:44 PM PDT by CyberCowboy777 (Veritas vos liberabit)
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To: CyberCowboy777

you really should define your terms more precisely, since you appear to be leaving a large number of posters on this thread with a misimpression.


216 posted on 07/12/2004 2:48:52 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: CyberCowboy777; yall

BTW...seeing as how it's only almost 3:00 PDT, WHY have so many of you young people NOT been at work today?


217 posted on 07/12/2004 2:48:59 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (Hair? Ya wanna talk about hair? President REAGAN had a NICE head of hair!!)
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To: CyberCowboy777

Got your own apartment?


218 posted on 07/12/2004 2:49:35 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (Hair? Ya wanna talk about hair? President REAGAN had a NICE head of hair!!)
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To: Howlin
"The BB born in 1946 were 18 in 1964.

ALL OF THREE MILLION OF THEM.

You add '47, '48, '49, and '50, and you've got about sixteen million people."

In 1964, the voting age was 21. It went down to 18 in the early '70s, along with the drinking age. By 1980, the behavior of myself and my peers had led to the drinking age being put back to 21. But the voting age stayed at 18.

hic*
219 posted on 07/12/2004 2:51:26 PM PDT by beef ("Blessed are the geeks, for they shall inherit the earth.")
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To: exhaustedmomma

Peaked in '79, actually.


220 posted on 07/12/2004 2:51:46 PM PDT by Howlin (John Kerry & John Edwards: Political Malpractice)
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