Boomers didn’t fail the younger gens
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@jilleduffy Thank you for this statement. As a progressive socialist, I can tell you that the vast majority of my friends and family that are boomers are progressives and active in one way or another in good causes.
@old_hippie @jilleduffy People forget that the Boomers were the hippies. They were the antiwar protestors. They were the kids mowed down at Kent State. They were the greatest generation of musicians of all time. They invented Earth Day.
The main thing they did wrong is that after spending the Sixties believing you can't trust the government, they fell for Reagan's con job in 1980 when he pretended that's what Republicans believed too.
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Boomers didn’t fail the younger gens
The wealthy & powerful did
Boomers created the Civil Rights movement, the Americans With Disabilities Act, climate science. They put solar panels on the White House & made the first wave of electric vehicles
The ones who let the world down from a lack of political will were and still are the powerful & wealthy
Don’t let stereotypes about generations divide us!
Right on!
There are rotten Boomers and there are wonderful Boomers, and most are somewhere in between.
There are rotten Millenials and wonderful ones. Ditto for GenX'ers, ditto for whatever generation. (And "generations" is a silly idea, anyway. Does birth on Jan 1 make you a different person than birth on December 31?)
There are rotten Americans and great ones. Ditto for Russians, Chinese, or Fiji Islanders.
Let's not dig in our heels over simplistic stereotypes.
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@old_hippie @jilleduffy People forget that the Boomers were the hippies. They were the antiwar protestors. They were the kids mowed down at Kent State. They were the greatest generation of musicians of all time. They invented Earth Day.
The main thing they did wrong is that after spending the Sixties believing you can't trust the government, they fell for Reagan's con job in 1980 when he pretended that's what Republicans believed too.
@msbellows
What I saw changing in my boomer parents took place in the 90s and 2000s, not the 80s. They got brainwashed by media saying crime was up and baggy pants and hip-hop booming radios is all criminal. It’s all the Rush Limbaugh radio and the COPS and true crime shows. They were being entertained in racist tropes.
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@old_hippie @jilleduffy People forget that the Boomers were the hippies. They were the antiwar protestors. They were the kids mowed down at Kent State. They were the greatest generation of musicians of all time. They invented Earth Day.
The main thing they did wrong is that after spending the Sixties believing you can't trust the government, they fell for Reagan's con job in 1980 when he pretended that's what Republicans believed too.
@msbellows @jilleduffy Reagan and his ilk were the worst. I never understood anyone falling for his bullshit.
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@old_hippie @jilleduffy People forget that the Boomers were the hippies. They were the antiwar protestors. They were the kids mowed down at Kent State. They were the greatest generation of musicians of all time. They invented Earth Day.
The main thing they did wrong is that after spending the Sixties believing you can't trust the government, they fell for Reagan's con job in 1980 when he pretended that's what Republicans believed too.
@msbellows @old_hippie @jilleduffy "hippy" my ass . .
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@msbellows @jilleduffy Reagan and his ilk were the worst. I never understood anyone falling for his bullshit.
@old_hippie @msbellows @jilleduffy
He was a trained actor, FFS! A paid persuader.
The first 100% corporate owned US president. -
@msbellows @jilleduffy Reagan and his ilk were the worst. I never understood anyone falling for his bullshit.
@old_hippie @msbellows @jilleduffy If you were a Boomer in CA you had reason to despise Reagan as Governor
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Boomers didn’t fail the younger gens
The wealthy & powerful did
Boomers created the Civil Rights movement, the Americans With Disabilities Act, climate science. They put solar panels on the White House & made the first wave of electric vehicles
The ones who let the world down from a lack of political will were and still are the powerful & wealthy
Don’t let stereotypes about generations divide us!
@jilleduffy look at the Boomers out protesting NOW
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@old_hippie @msbellows @jilleduffy
He was a trained actor, FFS! A paid persuader.
The first 100% corporate owned US president.@Barbramon1 @old_hippie @jilleduffy I mean, he was paid to make LPs like this: Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan_Speaks_Out_Against_Socialized_Medicine
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@old_hippie @jilleduffy People forget that the Boomers were the hippies. They were the antiwar protestors. They were the kids mowed down at Kent State. They were the greatest generation of musicians of all time. They invented Earth Day.
The main thing they did wrong is that after spending the Sixties believing you can't trust the government, they fell for Reagan's con job in 1980 when he pretended that's what Republicans believed too.
@msbellows @old_hippie @jilleduffy
the hippies/antiwar folks did not fall for Reagan -- we knew his evil well from People's Park in Berkeley CA
understand, a generation is not a monolith -- we had plenty of Republican "moral majority" types to contend with -
@Barbramon1 @old_hippie @jilleduffy I mean, he was paid to make LPs like this: Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan_Speaks_Out_Against_Socialized_Medicine
@msbellows @old_hippie @jilleduffy
I lived through all that as a young adult. It was clear to me even then that he was as phony as the cowboy/host that he played on Death Valley Days.
Reagan was a General Electric mouthpiece on and off screen for years. He traveled around the US making speeches on their behalf. He denounced unions as communist, spoke against Social Security and other parts of the New Deal.
Interestingly, despite his anti union screeds, he was a union president for years. -
@msbellows @old_hippie @jilleduffy
the hippies/antiwar folks did not fall for Reagan -- we knew his evil well from People's Park in Berkeley CA
understand, a generation is not a monolith -- we had plenty of Republican "moral majority" types to contend with@libramoon @msbellows @old_hippie @jilleduffy My undergrad diploma from UC Berkeley is signed by Ronnie Rayguns. I've often thought that I should have his signature acid washed out.
When I graduated I moved down to Santa Monica - and had to deal with Bob Dornan as our Congress critter - gawd, what an awful person!!!
I wonder at the streak in humanity that can produce sociopaths like Dornan (and S. Miller). By comparison, Nixon and Reagan were downright caring humans.
The John Adams opera, "Nixon In China" (well worth seeing/hearing) paints an interesting alternative, at times even sympathetic, view of Nixon.
(BTW, I walked past People's park almost every day - and got tear gassed, too. But I never really supported the People's Park movement - it was too grungy even for my impoverished student tastes.)
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@old_hippie @msbellows @jilleduffy
He was a trained actor, FFS! A paid persuader.
The first 100% corporate owned US president.@Barbramon1 @msbellows @jilleduffy He was a B-list actor. The monkey Bonzo was a better actor than him
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@old_hippie @jilleduffy People forget that the Boomers were the hippies. They were the antiwar protestors. They were the kids mowed down at Kent State. They were the greatest generation of musicians of all time. They invented Earth Day.
The main thing they did wrong is that after spending the Sixties believing you can't trust the government, they fell for Reagan's con job in 1980 when he pretended that's what Republicans believed too.
@msbellows @old_hippie @jilleduffy
You know all those changes Reagan pushed through that hurt society? Those changes can be reversed. -
@Barbramon1 @msbellows @jilleduffy He was a B-list actor. The monkey Bonzo was a better actor than him
@old_hippie @msbellows @jilleduffy
He was mediocre at best. His greatest acting achievement was in the real life role of US president.
He was broke, his career failing when GE hired him as a spokesman. Without that exposure, he likely would never have gone to the White House. -
@old_hippie @jilleduffy People forget that the Boomers were the hippies. They were the antiwar protestors. They were the kids mowed down at Kent State. They were the greatest generation of musicians of all time. They invented Earth Day.
The main thing they did wrong is that after spending the Sixties believing you can't trust the government, they fell for Reagan's con job in 1980 when he pretended that's what Republicans believed too.
@msbellows @old_hippie @jilleduffy just say maverick a lot, that works every time
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Boomers didn’t fail the younger gens
The wealthy & powerful did
Boomers created the Civil Rights movement, the Americans With Disabilities Act, climate science. They put solar panels on the White House & made the first wave of electric vehicles
The ones who let the world down from a lack of political will were and still are the powerful & wealthy
Don’t let stereotypes about generations divide us!
@jilleduffy You are right in saying the wealthy and powerful have railroaded us but, man, the boomers sure have carried a lot of water for them in the past fifty years.
Not too happy about that.
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@old_hippie @jilleduffy People forget that the Boomers were the hippies. They were the antiwar protestors. They were the kids mowed down at Kent State. They were the greatest generation of musicians of all time. They invented Earth Day.
The main thing they did wrong is that after spending the Sixties believing you can't trust the government, they fell for Reagan's con job in 1980 when he pretended that's what Republicans believed too.
@msbellows how tf can we forget they were the hippies when the entirety of the 80's and 90's was an endless onslaught of navel gazing about 'man, we were so awesome'.
Then they hopped into their SUV's to go buy some Swiffers from those new big-box stores.
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