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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The WWII generation is to blame. They put Ss and Medicare into place. They had lots of kids. The boomers did nothing wrong except be born and then decide to have fewer children. It's not their fault that there are so many of them.

Gen Xers we have been voting for 20 years. It's time to stop blaming and take responsibility for our country. We font vote enough and we don't take this issue seriously when we go to vote. We are complaining but acting like victims. It's kind of pathetic really.

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Don't be ridiculous.  Elections in the United States are pretty much a pure expression of the Id of Baby Boomers.  [b]This will be even more true over the next 10-20 years because the retired and elderly vote in even greater numbers than the population as a whole. [/b] Finally, when they're dead at the end of that period, our politics will hopefully go through an evolutionary leap.

Of course Baby Boomers aren't to blame for their raw numbers, but whether they're to blame for their epic narcissism and complacency is an open question.  Pretty much at every single stage of their lives:  whether they were fighting so that only the poor and minorities would be drafted in their teens in the late 60s, or fighting for consequence-free andro-centric sex in their twenties in the 70s, or the elevation of greed to a religion in their thirties in the 80s, or their efforts to pervert Chrstianity into some sort of right-wing self-help parody of itself in their forties in the 90s, to the Teabagging support of the security state in the 2000s, it's one long cluster-fuck that they should rightly be held to account for.  The sooner they're off booed off the stage, the better for each of us, for our country, and for the world at large.

Like so often happens in literature, the Greatest Generation gave birth to a prodigal son, and there's no sign of the wisdom that comes with age.  [/quote]

Whose fault is that??  Those damn boomers, always voting.  Why can't they slack off like the other generations.

And in your tirade you failed to mention that the boomers protested and got the government out of Vietnam, a war started by the prior generation.  It was the backbone of the civil rights movement.  Yup, most of those kids getting their heads cracked and hit with water hoses were boomers.  And they fought for equal rights of women generally and in the workplace.

Lastly, it seems to me quite ironic to accuse them of greed when this post is all about what they got that we didn't.[/quote]

The Boomers protested the war to the extent that there was a general draft.  In the early years, there were easy deferments, and the war was generally uncontroversial.  (Just like Iraq/Iran today).  It was only when the draft was made more fair that the anti-war movement got any traction at all.

As far as Civil Rights goes, let's be very clear on one thing:  *black* people were the backbone of the Civil Rights movement.  There were a very small number of brave, committed whites who contributed, but civil rights victories came from the sheer popular force of unified African Americans and the moral integrity of LBJ.

That Boomers clamored to take credit for the Civil Rights movement retroactively is exactly as if every Boomer claimed to have been a big fan of Hendrix during the 60s.  Or to have been at Woodstock.  These were a very small segment of the demographic.  It's only later (after the heavy lifting was done) that the general population of Boomers picked up the flag.

Boomer policies have essentially fucked up the house their parents built; sure that was driven by greed and short-sighted narcissism.  But the critique goes beyond jealousy.  Boomers were given the most powerful, richest country in the world, and have put it on the verge of sinking into second-rate power status.[/quote]

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