Posted on 10/19/2021 3:03:46 AM PDT by Kaslin
I like the article, but have one issue with it. People older than 75 are not Baby Boomers. They come from the generation born prior to 1946, the first baby boom year. So please don’t blame boomers for people like Schumer, Pelosi, Biden, Maxine Waters and, yes, Colin Powell.
Not Boomers?
Same technicality might be applied to the musicians at Woodstock etc. The 1945 birthday technicality is not the way this generational sociology works, as livius seems to me to acknowledge.
Sociology is a science of generalizations that can still hold useful though the conclusions can be attacked in just such a way. If you do not accept sociology as a science, then that is fine. My son is so. We cannot discuss sociology without first laying ground rules. He thinks that any generalization can be defeated with a single counterexample, but he has agreed that on some level there is “something there” when it comes to sociology, so he mentally adjusts himself and then we have a good discussion.
Really there is nothing about Powell or Mueller emblematic of the Boomers. And spare me the condescending prattle about sociology: I’ll leave it to your son to be stuck with that.
True. We got burned bad by “free trade”, aka free flow of goods. Ross Perot was right though. Many of us didn’t imagine that production would be moved off shore.
Rush was always a populist. Frankly, I don’t recall where he stood on Nafta. However, he didn’t rigidly conform to inside the belt way “conservative” thinking. One example is immigration.
I can't disagree more on that. Perhaps, to your ears. But, he was never a populist, that's why he got alot of flak from the other tribes on the right.
As I told my kids, he was a good soldier and a lousy politician.
He was apparently instrumental in the career of a friend of mine while he was climbing the ranks in the Army.
“But our current elite, especially the Boomer establishment...”
This man really thinks that his “Boomer establishment” meme, that he mentions much to often, is a never-before-noticed piece of genius that he, only, has discovered that unravels and explains what is wrong in the United States, but it is sheer stupidity.
“...it certainly helped wash off some of the stink of being caught up in the mustard gas fraud.”
I am no fan of Powell’s, but I talked with a soldier in that war; he said they were hit with mustard gas.
“Are you willing to pay for those that can’t,..”
We pay for other people’s kids regardless of their ability to pay. And we get a crappy product.
Your kids are your responsibility. And that includes educating them.
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“Condescending prattle?”
9Lurk gives me reason to be condescending now. Using the birth date technicality would be a misunderstanding of how these generational generalities work in sociology. One not capable of understanding may call this prattle, or it may be prattle. An emotionally weak person may be stung by being corrected when no ill is intended, but his feeling about it is more important to him than me.
“Nothing...emblematic...”
If the birthday point makes his point, no need to say this, but anyway, granted for the sake of argument that Powell is too old to be a Boomer, as Avalon Memories says, Lurk did not understand that the current ongoing celebration of the man is certainly a Boomer phenomenon! livius’ comment #3, his observation of him as a leader of that generation is sound.
“Your son to be stuck with that...”
That was cute, I think, so Lurk shows he has some level of sophistication.
7thson comment #11 acknowledges that Powell is not a Boomer and then goes on to participate in the discussion in an admirable way if the admiration of such a prating, condescending coxcomb such as I has any currency.
Another great post by Kaslin. Very thankful for all of you.
Baby Boomer | Definition of Baby Boomer by Merriam-Webster
https://www.merriam-webster.com
Baby boomer definition is - a person born during a period of time in which there is a marked rise in a population’s birth rate : a person born during a baby boom; especially : a person born in the U.S. following the end of World War II (usually considered to be in the years from 1946 to 1964).
The musicians at Woodstock were mostly not Boomers, nor were the “Generation of ‘68” who led the European riots, nor were people like Abie Hoffman.
The actual Boomers were young and impressionable enough to be whipped up by them...and they were also being taught by some awful anti-American leftists, including some who had come back from WWII and gotten their degrees under the GI Bill.
Believe me, I’m a legitimate Boomer who grew up in NYC and went to public school and even one of the “elite” schools. It was a solid indoctrination in anti-Americanism by people at least 10 years older than we were.
Good points, thought provoking thanks!
Rush was indeed a supporter of the Clinton era NAFTA agreement. He spurned and mocked Perot and his prescient warning of the “giant sucking sound” of disappearing American industrial jobs. His later emphatic, chilling monologues on Clinton’s selling out of our country and the White House to Chinese criminals in exchange for millions and reelection in ‘96, fell on deaf ears. NAFTA was already killing us. Clinton was the traitor that paved the way to our downfall.
Not till the ascendency of Trump did I hear Rush acknowledge that NAFTA was a mistake. I remember him lamenting NAFTA in his dying days. Trump was our one chance to restore what was rightfully ours. Too little too late given that we are now led by even bigger traitors than Clinton. The democrats, led by Biden are killing us from within. This is the essence of our destruction.
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