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In reply to the discussion: This, my friends, is far too typical for my generation. [View all]riverbendviewgal
(4,244 posts)I am a boomer. I expected my sons to have a better life.
One is dead from a brain tumour at 26..(Yes, my American young generation, you can suddenly be struck by a terrible terminal illness, after never being sick a day of your life.) Luckily we live in Canada and we got the best of care and no medical bills.
One is a genius, with Mental problems...he does the best he can but there is a stigma to mental health problems, like Aspergers and Autism as well as Depression. This is in both Canada and the USA.
Things have deteriorated since
my generation . Ike was the last great Republican president.. The USA has succumbed to greed.
Ronald Reagan gave it a big, big push. The corporations got control.. Voting is rigged. Unions are dying.
You can not blame it on the boomers....Many of the young generation DO NOT VOTE. AND MANY OLDER ONES DON'T VOTE EITHER
There is plenty of apathy all around....
The corporations and elite 1 percent diverted the attention of most people with THINGS...Sports...Entertainment. American and much of western civilization has been diverted to the kind of Roman days of the coliseum. That is why Hunger Games is riveting. Much of the elite live in the Hunger Games city...while those have nots are in the districts destined to be slaves and send their people as gladiators to fight to the death and for the elites entertainment and profit.. How long will this last? It is uncertain but Big Brother is watching. I hope that someone can figure out how to get out of the mess that the Reaganites and tea partiers put us all in
In Canada we are watching...We are not going to not fight...We have a FATCA fight now going on. You can read my previous posts, that got 4 recs, 31 replies, some of mine and over 700 views...!!!!!!!!.
Remember in the 1930s many people viewed and did not speak up and look what happened.