Tl;dr- their leadership is as bad as their oldest on wheels. GenX author hopes to put them to pasture ASAP, looks to those selfish, entitled, me-first Millenials to Make the Country Great Again®. Opinions Baby boomers have been a disaster for America, and Trump is their biggest mistake yet
Generational warfare was kind of idiotic when boomers played it against Gen X, it's silly when it's reversed as well, and it's also silly when it gets turned on the Gen Y/millenial/whoever is next.
Checking in before I get really Really old and the millennial generation is being made fun of for being antiquated.
The boomers did basically engineer and oversee the death of the american dream that took place from 1970-2000, then turned around and blamed it on their kids, lulz.
Yeah, well, it's pretty accurate. The boomers are arguably the worst generation, but some blame has to go on the generation that raised them to be so terrible. The self titled "greatest generation" raised awful little bastards that pretty much screwed up the country every chance they got. You can't completely blame the kid without blaming the parent at least a bit.
LOL...sounds like whining to me. Yes THOSE people screwed it up for the rest of us!!!1111!!Eleven!11 Wasn't it the Baby Boomers who were the ones who helped engineer the Civil Rights Movement...the end of the Vietnam War....brought down a corrupt President Nixon....had the long economic expansion of the 80's....helped win the cold war....ushered in the era of the go go 90's among other things? Or were those things accomplished by another generation? The one thing you can count on from younger generations is a lot of whining. We need to suck it up....it was only 2 generations ago our parents and grandparents lived in the REAL hardships of the depression and 2 World Wars. Compared to that, everyone today has it made. This writer needs to get a grip.
Millennials get a bad rap in business, work and the media. It's true generations shouldn't be considered as homogenous groups and complaints against the younger generations are nearly identical and b****y. The op-ed did mention it's the turds they're picking for leaders.
Pretty much all generational taxonomy is just advertising bullshit and probably only mattered once kids and teens got discretionary income. Race, education and wealth affect habits and values more than when you came of age. Baby boomers were fine, by the way, they weren't all social liberators but not freaking out en-masse at having black students, church congregants or pool-goers like their parents did actually went a long way.
Well Boomers are today's executives, managers, politicians, and other leadership positions. This is the world they had a large hand in creating. I mostly am concerned about the solvency of SSN and Medicare for us 30 year olds.
That's wrong - that problem pales in comparison to climate change and economic/social disruption via automation & the resulting inequality. These 2 things should keep you up at night..if you really want something to worry about.
We can't control SE Asia's emission and I do worry about automation but that's inevitable. We have more control over our entitlements.
If you use 1946 as the first year of the Baby Boom (as most historians do), that would mean the oldest of the Boomers was 23 during the moon landing. So no, they weren't responsible for that or the civil rights movement - both of these were largely led by Silent and Greatest Generation individuals. The Boomers biggest generational accomplishment is probably the Vietnam protests, though they really had little to do with ending our involvement in the war. Both Trump and Clinton are early Boomers while Obama is a late Boomer.
It's stoopid to put anything in generalized terms. There is nothing monolithic about a "generation" There are some specific influences that go with the times though. I always felt like I was altruistic because I was raised with mythical ethical hero's like Matt Dillon. Turns out commercial TV turned us into mass consumers of trivial crap. That one:
mon·o·lith·ic ˌmänəˈliTHik/ adjective formed of a single large block of stone (of an organization or system) large, powerful, and intractably indivisible and uniform "boomers" are only defined by the date of their birth, there is nothing else that defines them as "singular" or forming one voting bloc or being uniform in beliefs or actions.
