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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGee..uh, thanks Baby Boomers...
you stopped the Cold War ? You took away one of the best reasons for Millenials to live in the moment and "YOLO" just sounds like something to yell at a party. Did you ever think of that ?! Now YOLO just seems all care free and unserious. You killed off the nihilism and ennui that phrase used to have!
Advanced civil rights? Ended polio? Created the internet and cell phones? Fought for the environment? Got DDT banned. Got your asses kicked in Chicago and Kent State? Ended the war in Vietnam ? Helped to overturn Aparteid? Paid a shipload of taxes ? Now you legalize marijuana ? You fight and vote for marriage equality ?!
Seriously. Thanks Baby Boomers.
ProfessorGAC
(65,058 posts)Every single one of us.
Skink
(10,122 posts)brush
(53,784 posts)Could we boomers say thank you to you for W?
whathehell
(29,067 posts)This boomer wouldn't dream of voting for Reagan, and, being aged 30 in 1980
well remembers when Abbie Hoffman was called on his famous "Don't trust
anyone over 30" statement right before the '80 election -- His response?
"You can't trust anyone UNDER 30 now -- They're all for Reagan"!
So sorry, bro, but you're better off playing the blame game with either YOUNG
'boomers' who were college age at that time and NEVER experienced the anti-war
demonstrations or the Counter-Culture of the late 60's and early70's and/or their
parents, who largely comprised the "sandwich" generation -- too young to vote for FDR,
or remember much of the Great Depression and too Old to fit the Boomer demographic.
Neither me, anyone I knew or my WWII era parents voted for Reagan.
My father, in particular, despised him.
ProfessorGAC
(65,058 posts)Except i didn't vote for him. More likely, people in the their late 40's to late 60's swung the vote. At least my hands are clean on that.
global1
(25,251 posts)building on our accomplishments. We won't be able to do that if we have a Repub Senate and House. This is a real important election coming up that will effect the Millenial's and their offspring more than us Boomers. Let's give President Obama a platform for which he can make good on all his promises without continued obstruction.
PasadenaTrudy
(3,998 posts)Born in 1964. So many people try to tell me I'm a Gen Xer. I feel like a Boomer at heart. My sis was born in 48 and my brother in 56, so I was influenced by the hippie counter culture more than anything. Now I'm 50 and think of myself as an aging hippie. My heart is in Humboldt Co. but sadly I live in L.A. Co., lol!
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Now see if you can keep it.
Paladin
(28,262 posts)Iggo
(47,558 posts)Dang!
I been busy!
TBF
(32,062 posts)by a gasping (and hopefully dying) repug party.
GOTV.