Are the Baby boomers the worst generation?
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My Boomer Tips
Of course not all of them. I'm painting with a broad brush...If that's the expression. lol
They never lived up to the legacy of their parents. Many of them were just flat out cowards when it came to the war in Vietnam. They really screwed up a lot of good things in this country. And now they're all washed up and needy. They treated the only honorable ones among them (the veterans of the era) like crap.
I'm never going to do lsd because you guys.
The only good thing to come out of that era was the music.
My parents are boomers, but my dad was a marine and my mom was a normal person.
Yes. Actually they loved Carter and now Obama and hated Bush and Reagan..these are the same lame asses who evaded the draft–fled to CN, and who burned American flags in the street..calling Bush unamerican and you and me racists for not embracing their ideologue–talking head-obama.
They live in 5000 sq ft homes, have chauffeurs and eat caviar–while complaining that you and I–middle class tax payers–flip the bill for more humanitarian efforts.
Most are. I love my parents, but I cannot stand their political beliefs.
I agree, their music was the best, even if I disagree with it politically. It’s still very moving and passionate.
All we had to protest our wars were John Mayers "Sitting around waiting" or whatever. What a waste.
I wouldn’t equate the "Baby Boomers"; as being the worst generation. Yet I wouldn’t be shocked if history paints them as the generation of selfishness, materialistic, and entitlement by default of expectation.
No, we were one of the most passionate generations and we were actually willing to get out and fight for what we believed in, to your benefit and that of all succeeding generations. What have you been willing to sacrifice and fight for?
We were right about the war in Vietnam. Just like we said, it was all a big lie cooked up by the CIA and the military-industrial complex to enrich a lot of fat cat assholes at the expense of thousands of American families and millions of Laotian, Cambodian, and Vietnamese families. We were right when we said it was illegal, immoral, and just plain wrong.
We were right when we said we couldn’t trust the government to tell us the truth.
We were right back in the 60s when we said we needed alternative energy, an environmentally sustainable life-style, and that we should stop trying to force everyone into the same mold.
We were right when we said we needed to curb the excesses of capitalism or the gap between rich and poor would become a divisive and oppressive nightmare.
We were right when we said that prohibition would not work and that the laws against drugs do more harm than the drugs themselves ever could.
We were right when we said that Nixon was a rat and a crook, and that the CIA was running heroin in Vietnam.
We were right when we said that Reagan was a wolf in sheep’s clothing and a disaster for America.
We were right when we said trickle-down economics was a bullshit greedhead rip-off of the poor.
We were right when we said they were torturing and murdering innocent people in SE Asia, South America, Central America and elsewhere, and that we were training foreign armies to do those things at the School of the Americas at Ft. Benning, Georgia.
We were right when we said that Wall Street, the government, and the military-industrial complex had formed an evil iron triangle that has a stranglehold on our country and is pushing us inexorably into a state of total war to serve their own nefarious ends.
We were right when we said the mainstream media was becoming a propaganda machine.
We were right when we said the religious right was filled more with hatred and intolerance than with love or Christian charity.
We were right when we said love is the answer.
We were right when we said workers were being ruthlessly oppressed and unions neutered and pressured out of existence.
We were right when we said the government was spying on American citizens.
We were right when we said we were sending too many people to prison for all the wrong things.
We were right when we said that the government wants to take away our civil rights.
We were right when we said the Republicans were bible-totin’ fascists with fake smiles and daggers up their sleeves.
We were right when we said that we all deserve to be freer but that the government intended to make us less so.
We were right when we said that there is something bad wrong with a government that spies on Quakers, peaceniks, and the guy who wrote All You Need is Love.
We were right about the war in Iraq as well. Most of the anti-war protesters were Baby Boomers.
And you think WE were the worst generation?
Where is the respect? Where’s the love? Where is the acknowledgement that we were and are the leading edge of thought? Where is the admission that WE WERE RIGHT?
No, the so-called best generation came back from WWII believing that they saved the world. They filled their children’s head with that crap, then in the sixties they beat, tear gassed and killed that idealism right out of them. Result was accumulate as much as you can, and the hell with everyone else.
I am a boomer. Yes, the Baby Boomers have been the most selfish and hypocritical generation in modern history. Their claims of protesting for one cause or another ended when the military draft was abolished by Nixon in the early 1970s.
Without the baby boomers you would still be using cloth diapers, trying to learn to cook because there would be no microwave.
No the babyboomers are the best generation.
The only bad thing the boomers did was to spoil their children rotten.
I don’t know where you are getting your information, but change the channel.
As to the Vietnam war, there was a draft, if you were eighteen and not the son of a rich man, you were cannon fodder, like it or not, you azz was sent to get shot up. And when they lost the war, they blamed the kids, not the leadership. It was a very bad war, for no discernible reason. Especially since we are now trading partners with them. If you like your ability to decide for yourself if you want to go, or you don’t want to go fight a war on foreign soil, thank a hippie. Without them we would still have the draft.
We are not washed up and needy, though many who came home from that war were mentally damaged.
We are far from the worst generation, we did many things to make the country better for all its members, though the white male may have had to move over a notch.
Is that the good thing you refer to? Segregation and inequality?
My husband is a vet from that era, he is not, nor was he ever treated badly.
No one should be doing illegal drugs. LSD or otherwise.