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In reply to the discussion: Excellent rant from a Millenial to GenX and Boomers [View all]jeff47
(26,549 posts)61. Thanks for taking the time to respond. I wish you had read more carefully
Rebuttal: First, I would say be careful by using the word "Boomers" as there are 33 million of us and we're as different from one another as you are with those of your generation.
And I said multiple times that my statements were not directed at any individual boomers, but what your cohort did. The cumulative effect of those 33 million, not Le Taz Hot specifically.
Second, Reagan got into office
Not what I was talking about. It isn't about the literal election of Reagan. It's about embracing the modern Republican "destroy the government" worldview that he represents. The baby boomer generation embraced the hell out of that, even if some individual boomers did not.
But . . . "The Greatest Generation" were also fine with Jim Crow laws and women as second-class citizens.
Again, different subject. My complaint is the political philosophy that government can never do any good. That it needs to be drown-able in a bathtub. The fact that the WWII generation weren't wonderful on civil rights is a separate issue.
They built our interstate system because of course the government can build a massive interstate system. They went to the moon because of course the government can get to the moon.
Today, we can't get a bridge replaced before it collapses because government can't do anything.
Rebuttal: We are no more responsible for the numbers in our generation as you are responsible for the numberts in your own generation.
However, you are responsible for the numbers in our generation. But that is again a side-issue.
Lots of Gen X-ers have tried to get our political issues addressed, but that ran smack into the numbers problem. So without any political recourse, we gave up on politics. And we are now derided for not being interested enough in politics.
No one is stopping you from getting involved at any time
How many times do you try to lift an 18-wheeler with your bare hands before you give up?
Student loans aren't a new issue. We faced them too. We tried to get the program reformed when we were 18. How many politicians talked about it in the 1988 or 1992 elections? None. There's a lot of similar examples where our issues were ignored.
How do you expect people to remain active in a democracy that explicitly ignores their issues?
No one is stopping you from getting involved at any time and with the Occupy movement
So your argument is we should have stayed involved in politics when we were 20, because people finally started paying attention to our issues when we turned 40?
here's hoping I could guide you to some truths on the issue.
This sentence perfectly encapsulates the problem.
I'm just a kid who doesn't understand, so my complaints can be ignored. Heck, my complaints are poorly read to mean a literal complaint about Reagan's election, and then pat my wittle head and send me on my way. But it's also my fault for not being involved in a political process that has this attitude towards me.
So, take your truths and fuck them.
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I can chalk it up to inexperience that you don't know this but each generation blames the ones
upaloopa
Jun 2012
#1
This 61 year old would like to take some credit for helping end the Vietnam fiasco
OffWithTheirHeads
Jun 2012
#3
I love it when they say "We work hard", yea sitting in a climate controlled cube
LiberalArkie
Jun 2012
#32
and each new generation is dumb enough to buy into it. but where is that message
HiPointDem
Jun 2012
#24
I have seen more of a work ethic in milennials than I have in my own generation
Taverner
Jun 2012
#65
That millenials have to do slave labor as "interns" is viewed as a positive thing
JDPriestly
Jun 2012
#80
You must be kidding. The Boomers certainly DID go out and make a fairer, more just society!
whathehell
Jun 2012
#37
I think the blame is on everyone's shoulders - well, except for the milennials
Taverner
Jun 2012
#64
And the responses to the "virulent" posts being mainly petulant proves....?
LanternWaste
Jun 2012
#67
I think the generation that fought Hitler and survived the depression would beg to differ with you
Taverner
Jun 2012
#62
I had the impression he was speaking to all generations, not just the graduates.
Uncle Joe
Jun 2012
#58
Older generations vs younger generations? Divide and conquer is working well, I'd say....
YoungDemCA
Jun 2012
#74