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In reply to the discussion: OK, boomers; look at what we've left for our grandkids [View all]brush
(53,764 posts)block, all in lockstep. Being a boomer you should know that better than most. The boomers were split in the '60s...anti-war protestors, hard hats, hippies, young republicans etc...and they've remained split along the way. Not all are republicans or Democrats or Indies. They don't vote or legislate or govern as a block, and neither has any other generation ever, or ever will.
It a silly cliche IMO to blame what's wrong now on boomers, just as it was sillly to blame what came before them with the greatest generations. That whole term, "on their watch", is just as silly.
It's more accurate to attribute blame to the policy setters, the political parties in charge who pass the laws and enforce them. IMO that points massively to Reagan, Bush, Gingrich's Contract with America and Bush again, and the republicans who pass policies and tax cuts for the rich when in power, versus the Democratic Party that install policies and laws that benefit regular people...i.e. FDR's New Deal policies, Truman integrated armed services and generally gave republicans hell. LBJ helped regular citizens with the Great Society policies...Medicare, Medicaid, Pell grants, the tremendously important civil rights legislation, the Clinton's did their part, Obama got healthcare passed for millions.
So I say again that it's BS to say things fell apart on boomer's, an entire generation's watch, rather than placing the blame on actual ones who enacted the policies which negatively affected people's lives. And there are republican boomers, Democrats and Indies, same with GenXers, Millennials and GenZers. And they all vote to put Dems, or republicans in power. And we know who benefits when on republican's WATCH.