Yeah. They had it all and they went the worst, most selfish, immoral, foolish directions in every single instance with it. That generation as a whole really is all of the awful things every older generation has said about the new.

And what's worse, they are exactly like their parents, just about different stuff. Just as ignorant, just as inflexible, just as bitter, just as book burning, just as bigoted, just as clueless about their own positions and unable to defend them.

All they did was choose different categories to be that way. At least their parent's generation didn't spend their whole life attacking hypocrisy to get there.

The only thing some of the boomers parents did wrong was try to spare their kids from the social problems they had to deal with. While they were doing this they built the greatest economic engine the world has ever seen and turned it over to a bunch of spoiled brats. Sadly they spoiled them.

Who are costumed dudes sitting next to the old folks? Klansmen?

That's the Klan's new Urban Camo outfit.

The only thing some of the boomers parents did wrong was try to spare their kids from the social problems they had to deal with. While they were doing this they built the greatest economic engine the world has ever seen and turned it over to a bunch of spoiled brats. Sadly they spoiled them.
Posted by glenn at September 16, 2013 2:32 PM

+ about a thousand.

The whole notion that the generation which birthed the Boomers was ignorant, inflexible, bitter, etc is quite simply a canard, provided to the whiners by the Communists as a convenient excuse to avoid growing up.

Nah, I was writing from the perspective of the boomers. Their parents were no more ignorant, inflexible, and bitter than anyone else... but the boomers insisted on portraying them that way. And they ended up everything they accused their parents of being, or worse.

There are exceptions, of course. But the generation as a whole? Destroyed the Republic.

What do you bet the two on the right apologized for not wearing their burkas thereby oppressing the two on the left?

I relish the universal complaint of the young boomers about everyone selling out. And the speed and comprehensive nature of every famous boomer selling out in so many ways. The punks that sneered at Lawrence Welk are trumpeting their smothering of culture with The Stones, Beatles, and Woodstock music.

"The only thing some of the boomers parents did wrong was try to spare their kids from the social problems they had to deal with."

It was to be expected I suppose. Every parent would spare their child the pains and discomforts they had to endure while growing up if they could. It only occurs to them in hindsight that they are the way they are, hard-working, thrifty, self-reliant, because they had to endure hardship while growing up.

Although looking at the Third World you have to acknowledge that it's culture tied with some hardship that is the crucible. Just growing up in a poor environment doesn't guarantee that you'll grow up hard-working and self-reliant.

"Yeah. They had it all and they went the worst, most selfish, immoral, foolish directions in every single instance with it.”

No. If nothing else the 60’s generation will be remembered for ending Jim Crow, a brave and noble thing, whose moral capital they then squandered with excessive self-regard.

The 60's generation didn't do that Eris, it was done by their parents. Hippies of 16-22 years old had no political power or lawmaking ability.

The Greatest Generation were the ones who kept voting for FDR and big-government socialism. They are also the ones who chose Johnson's Great Society over Barry Goldwater.

Medicare and Medicaid which destroyed supply and demand in health care were begun with the votes, not of Boomers but of GGs. The first Boomers could not vote until '66. The voting age wasn't lowered to 18 until 1972. The first voting 18-year-olds were part of Nixon's landslide over McGovern.

Of course, Nixon was a big-government Republican who gave us the War on Drugs, reneged on Bretton Woods by floating the dollar, froze wages and prices, and initiated trade with the Chinese that has decimated our domestic manufacturing base.

It is never as simple as it seems.

Mushroom,

Good points, with the exception (and an important one) that the first boomers couldn't vote until 1967, not 1966. Keep in mind that the Boomers were children of returning WWII vets, none of whom got back until latter 1945. Add the necessary 9 months for gestation and you realize that the Baby Boom started in 1946, not 1945.

The counterculture was created by a tiny, dissident, degenerate fragment of the "Greatest Generation" known as "The Beats." We boomers went along for the ride. A lot of us did, that is. Many spent their "counterculture" years fighting in 'Nam.

One more thing: the gigantic fraud that is/was post-WWII "liberalism" was well-established by the time the first boomers set off for college. Kinsey had done his "sex study" that was 1) full of misinformation, and 2) really an excuse for academics to make amateur porn of their sexcapades. Dr, John Money ruined psychiatry, and Dr. Spock did his best to ruin child-rearing. Margaret Sanger had done her damage, and neither Rachel Carson nor Margaret Mead had yet been exposed as the frauds they were. Joe McCarthy was discredited, as was genuine anti-Communism, and the lies about left-wing innocence perpetuted. The list goes on and on. It was in this milieu that boomers grew up. It took me (an early boomer) a very long time to wash the poison out of my system.

The worst generation were those of age 100 years ago

That was also when we got the first version of the Pledge of Allegiance, courtesy of "Christian Socialist" Francis Bellamy. That pledge was recited by schoolchildren while they did the fascist salute well before Mussolini adopted it.

We can all find ways to blame somebody else for our troubles but in my opinion the boomers are a special case. I base that opinion on being slightly older (born just before WW2) and on having a 50+ year working life, 40 years with increasing levels of responsibility in a manufacturing company. In my company you had to perform, margins were slender, the public sector looked at entities like ours the way a feral dog looks at a pork chop and in all those years we had 1 (one) Boomer climb the ladder to senior management. When he arrived at a real leadership position he lasted 6 months. Faking production numbers and falsifying inventories works as long as you have someone else to blame your problems on. He was good at and when he got the last promotion I warned him to shape up. He didn't.

Here you go people:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOsNsOhyG8I