Zone1 An apology for my generation of Baby boomers.

[Mac-7]

A gross generalization so here is mine. I missed the hippy hey-day, but in the early '70s I had many weed-smoking peers. They generally fell into two groups where I lived, Brooklyn. Catholics and Jews, very few Protestants for some reason in my neighborhood. Catholics went to Catholic School, Jews went to Public School. The Catholics got some college but must ended up as postmen or other blue-collar jobs. Jews generally ended up with advanced degrees and got white collar jobs.

I had a group of weed-smoking friends that went to Columbia University and most of them ended up as lawyers and doing very well.

The decline of America begsn with the Baby Boomer generation

By the 1990s the WWII/Depression Era leaders were gone snd the race to the bottom for America really took off

 

[hjmick]

Once again, I apologize for my generation.

Apologize for yourself. That's the only person you can speak for.

 

[Dekster]

The boomers were and will always be a bunch of spoiled brats. They contributed too little and are consuming too much of social security such that it won't support anybody else going forward; they don't want people to have health insurance because that will be fewer people waiting in line ahead of them when they really need to get their boner pills; they hoarded wealth and jobs; and on and on and on.

 

[alang1216]

The decline of America begsn with the Baby Boomer generation

I'm guessing you are a straight, white, male.

 

[Mac-7]

I'm guessing you are a straight, white, male.

Most level-headed posters on this forum are straight, white males

But straight, white females are well represented too

 

[alang1216]

Most level-headed posters on this forum are straight, white males

But straight, white females are well represented too

The demographic that would benefit the most from a return to the America of the 50s.

 

[Mac-7]

The demographic that would benefit the most from a return to the America of the 50s.

America can never go back, for better or for worse

But we would benefit by a return to the best of 1950’s values

 

[Raynine]

America can never go back, for better or for worse

But we would benefit by a return to the best of 1950’s values

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I get it. But could we go back and extact some of the best things about those days? Family, friends, neighbors? Do we need to import a whole new demographic into our midsts that regard government as slavemaster? That is where we are heading by those who benefitted and are selling us out.