I don't remember us Boomers wishing that the generations before us would die, do you?
Pretty telling about THIS generation, IMO.
"I don't remember us Boomers wishing that the generations before us would die, do you?"
Actually, the boomer generation wished IT would die before it got old...a la the Who's "my generaton."
These chickens coming home to roost are poopin all over the place..yuck..
Right. And it WAS the previous generation that gave us Roosevelt, Johnson, and all the socialist programs that we got stuck paying the bill for.
I wouldn't be so hasty throwing around characterizations (though I think that is counter-productive, see below). Look at it from the point of view of the generations coming after the "Greatest" and "Boomer" cohorts. Most of them hear a never-ending litany of the virtues of these earlier generations. Yet, before most reach the age of majority, the nation is technically bankrupt, it is arithmetically impossible to ever reconcile lavish financial commitments made by these generations to current tax burdens, and government grows ever larger and more intrusive under the guidance of these earlier generations.
So generation "X" onwards is left with the impression that the earlier two generations sold them into indentured servitude basically before they were born, then put in place the means to forcibly enforce the terms of the indenture for the few decades that the older and newer generations will overlap in their grasp for the levers of power. To top it all off, mainstream criticism of these earlier generations is considered improper. I dunno, but this all sounds pretty anti-liberty if you ask me. Of course, like all generalizations, it only contains a very small kernel of truth, and the remainder is wild extrapolation.
Pretty telling about THIS generation, IMO.
No, it is just oversimplification of an underlying phenomenon. Characterization by generation in either direction simply masks the real issue: the highly corrosive effects of leftist thoughts and actions. And speaking as a Gen X'er, I want conservatives of all generations along my side while we struggle to expel leftists' anti-liberty tendencies from this nation's body politic. To look askance at potential allies simply because of their age is to play right into the divisive hands of the leftits.
That's gonna leave a mark!
My sentiments EXACTLY Howlin. Youth tends to be idealistic (not just the Boomer youth). What was different about the BBs was the sheer numbers.