Baby Boomers Ignore Bernie Sanders and Their Own Morals

[GoLeft TV]

Bernie Sanders is having a hard time attracting baby boomers. America’s Lawyer, Mike Papantonio, and Farron Cousins discuss why that is.

[pennylane100]

1. Well at least he has many of the supporting him here.

[navarth]

2. Count this 'boomer' in on that. GO BERNIE

[Milliesmom]

3. That is not correct

Most of my friends, relatives and neighbors are boomers and support him.

[saturnsring]

4. that's not the only group he has problems with

[navarth]

5. I just watched this. FFS change this stereotyping title

They're clearly not calling out my generation en masse. This title just contributes to the stereotyping and ageism that so disgusts me when I see it on DU.

Is there anyone here who doesn't inherently understand that EVERY generation has people who KEEP their values and other people who were just posers the whole time?

I can guarantee you there are 'boomer's who support Clinton. I can further guarantee you it ain't all of us. I would think that would be obvious.

[2banon]

6. Well, that's not true here in the Bay Area as far as I can tell. ALL of my peers

are full on support of Bernie Sanders. I'm involved in a number of different "circles" mostly artists and musicians and I know not of one single individual who isn't full on throttle in support of Bernie Sanders.

There's even several "Square Dance for Bernie Sanders" fundraising events all over the Bay Area region and beyond, up in Sonoma and Mendocino Counties and south to include various places like Santa Cruz etc.

Maybe that's the case in Florida ? Isn't that where Mike Papantonio is located?

[Basic LA]

7. All boomers drive BMW's?

And all boomers work on Wall Street? "Boomers" refers to the population explosion after WWII, as diverse a group as you can imagine, including right wing, left wing, Vietnam draftees, etc. So for this snotty prick of a lawyer to say we're all the same is a bit rich.

[Nitram]

15. I agree, Basic.

Gratuitous and totally false generalizations about any generation don't shed light on anything except inter-generational assumptions about each other.

[LittleGirl]

8. This boomer

gets it and I did not get more conservative or fearful, I got more liberal because those people on the other side are bat shit crazy.

[global1]

9. My Comment On The Posted Video....

I'm a Boomer and yes as I age I've become more conservative when it comes to my body. I don't bungee jump, I've given up skiing, basically I don't take chances with my body because it has become more fragile. But my mind hasn't become more conservative. I still have the values I had back in the protest days of the 60's.

What I think that may have happened to some Boomers is that the establishment continued to take advantage of them as we've aged to the point that some have just given up. If you can't beat them join them - perhaps has become their mantra.

I'm afraid that the same thing will happen to the now Millennials. They have become enthused and engaged in this election - but the establishment is doing everything that it can do to tamp down that enthusiasm and is intent on knocking it out of their systems. If that happens - we've lost another generation. A generation that felt originally that their vote doesn't count. They're then told to join a political revolution and believe in the political revolution - which is being sabotaged by the establishment, the 1%er's and the MSM. If the establishment wins and we get a status quo president - it will only reinforce the Millennials first thought - that no matter what they do - their vote doesn't count. We will then have lost them.

We are at a crucial point in time now. We have a transformational candidate in Bernie. Bernie has engaged a whole new generation of people. The establishment is doing everything it can to impede any progress that Bernie is making. If the establishment is successful - there won't be another Bernie around for a long time.

[Warpy]

10. Divisive, ageist garbage

Papantino and Cousins need to get a new hobby, Boomer bashing is getting beyond tired.

[Hiraeth]

11. This Boomer is feelin' the Bern.

[malthaussen]

12. Some Boomers never fit the stereotype.

Dunno about you, but a lot of my peers and acquaintances were as conservative as can be. About the only "liberal" views they agreed on were resistance to the draft and ease of access to sex. And a measurable number didn't even agree on the first: it is common to point to all the hypocritical chickenhawks in Congress who did everything in their power to avoid Vietnam, but are all for bombing any opposition into the stone age, and consider that typical of RW behavior, but it is no truer than the "dirty, pot-smoking hippies" stereotype the other side uses. Hell, I went to HS with a kid who said in his yearbook that he couldn't wait to get to Vietnam and "Kill twenty Cong a day." (Dunno what happened to him. They probably made him a clerk)

In order to characterize someone as having abandoned his values and morals to ignore Mr Sanders, one would have to know what were the individual's values and morals prior. It is the most ridiculous of straw men to construct a stereotype, and then abuse people for not living up to it.

-- Mal

[redruddyred]

13. baby boomers are two different generations

first was the protest generation, second the 1980s reaganite yuppies. i'm sure you could even slice it thinner, but i'm no historian. anyhow, when folks say "boomers are assholes", they're referring to the second group. it's an arbitrarily large group (while i hear gen x is arbitrarily small).

a lot of millennials had boomer #2 parents which as you've likely guessed were mostly too selfcentered to be really up to the task. so when the kids are like "those fucking boomers ruin everything" at least part of that antipathy is "my parents are selfish assholes and boy do i know it".

hope that clears things up.

[GreatGazoo]

14. They left out media habits as an influencer

The younger you are the less TV news you watch. People make decisions based on the information they have seen (and their own emotions). Boomer Dems have more trust in cable news than any other group does:



Meanwhile younger people just don't watch much TV news: