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The title is shocking but unfortunately shockingly accurate. A small percentage of boomers got many boomers to support policies that screwed themselves and the future generations. And this is no accident.
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bettyellen
(47,209 posts)apnu
(8,759 posts)There's a real ugly ageism war going on right now between Millennials and Boomers, both are using sweeping generalizations about each other.
This old Gen-X person is watching all this with great interest and, as usual for my generation, being totally ignored.
hamsterjill
(15,224 posts)The GOP stokes the flames. Trolls spread this on Facebook all the time trying to cause division.
apnu
(8,759 posts)That's what social media has done to the human condition. Facebook and Twitter (and Reddit to a large extent) has become the only lens fro millions of people to see the world.
Putin's smart, if you poision that, you control reality for easily 1/3 of the adult (and soon to be adult) population.
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)From other Boomers and every other generation to follow. Millennials are hardly the only ones to be affected by this charming group.
brush
(53,876 posts)the Boomers, GenXers and Millennials.
Such bullshit. The rich have always done this and it sure didn't start with any Boomers.
raccoon
(31,126 posts)TheRealNorth
(9,500 posts)I hear/see a lot of Baby Boomers and Gen X blaming Millenials for the mess that the Baby Boomers and Gen X helped created by voting Greed.
Tom Rinaldo
(22,913 posts)I''m counting on your generation. I have faith in you. There was virtually no environmental movement before my generation. They'll be virtually no environment left without your sustained struggle.
Amishman
(5,559 posts)It's a tiny thing, but cannot wait until supermarkets stop playing awful 60s and 70s music. By the time I'm done shopping I've usually suffered through multiple awful Beatles songs and am ready to jam the carrots into my ears to make it stop.
brush
(53,876 posts)You think the rich of the Greatest Generation didn't steal from Boomers, Genxers and Millennials?
Get smart and fight to ged rid of trump not people on your side who happen to be boomers who have been stolen from also by the rich.
Don't fall for the foolish premise of this OP.
Demsrule86
(68,696 posts)SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)Demsrule86
(68,696 posts)divisive tactics.
G_j
(40,372 posts)I wonder who was pushing for all those environmental protections, womens rights, etc.