While all she groups had people that fell fortune stupid... Younger millenials and gen z are the ones that jumped right into everything garbage. Gender, covid, choosing a side in multiple wars.
As a Gen-X, the conversations with my parents implies to me, that they are heavily complicit. But those are my parents, where as most boomers are just dumb people who have seemingly eaten too many lead paint chips, while competing in lead paint chip eating contests during their lives.
I would like to clarify. The older boomers had everything handed to them. They ran up deficits to enrich themselves (inherited much and mortgaged their children's future). The last 3 to 5 years of boomers had a much different experience, We saw what was coming ( books such as "The creature from Jekyll Island" helped us to see) and started talking to our kids and their friends. Many of my kid's friends thought I was a crazy conspiracy theory nut. Many of the late boomers have their eyes wide open and perpetuated the scam because we would be the first to see taxation via high inflation and a greatly diminished social security payment. While the US economy is still the "cleanest dirty shirt", we know it could be so much better with a fiscally response legislator. To be fair, it was some of the older boomers that helped open my eyes when I was young. Not all, but most boomers sold us into fiscal slavery. I continue to teach my grandkids just as my grandmother taught me. At a certain age most people have their eyes open. The only question remaining is, are they willing to sell out the next generation
It's hard to disrupt the cycle when half the families get a government check (including those who work where government contracts are the lion's share of their business).
I'm sorry, but Gen X was onto this shit and hated Boomers before it became a thing.
Things hadn't got to shit though, when they came of age, and appeared in some ways to get better as the Soviet Union fell.
While all she groups had people that fell fortune stupid... Younger millenials and gen z are the ones that jumped right into everything garbage. Gender, covid, choosing a side in multiple wars.
My grandma didn't fall for that shit.
Yes, my elders did. That's how my kids were raised, and luckily they think like us.
As a Gen-X, the conversations with my parents implies to me, that they are heavily complicit. But those are my parents, where as most boomers are just dumb people who have seemingly eaten too many lead paint chips, while competing in lead paint chip eating contests during their lives.
I would like to clarify. The older boomers had everything handed to them. They ran up deficits to enrich themselves (inherited much and mortgaged their children's future). The last 3 to 5 years of boomers had a much different experience, We saw what was coming ( books such as "The creature from Jekyll Island" helped us to see) and started talking to our kids and their friends. Many of my kid's friends thought I was a crazy conspiracy theory nut. Many of the late boomers have their eyes wide open and perpetuated the scam because we would be the first to see taxation via high inflation and a greatly diminished social security payment. While the US economy is still the "cleanest dirty shirt", we know it could be so much better with a fiscally response legislator. To be fair, it was some of the older boomers that helped open my eyes when I was young. Not all, but most boomers sold us into fiscal slavery. I continue to teach my grandkids just as my grandmother taught me. At a certain age most people have their eyes open. The only question remaining is, are they willing to sell out the next generation
It's hard to disrupt the cycle when half the families get a government check (including those who work where government contracts are the lion's share of their business).