When baby-boomers go back to school:

[madamesilverspurs]

[msongs]

1. make a brown paper cover and put it in your Peechee folder nt

[GummyBearz]

2. Don't discourage them

All baby boomers need to go back and take at least 1 course per semester at a junior college, taught by someone born in the 1970s or 1980s. They need to be untaught all the obedience to authority that was instilled in them in the 1950s.

Its the only way we can get about half of them to use their brains and vote for their own best interests instead of following Reaganism to its natural conclusion of corporate owner masters and corporate owned servants.

[annabanana]

3. ex-sqeeze me?

who do you think most of the boomers are?

[Brainstormy]

4. Beat me to it and did it better

but thanks! Our generation taught the art of protest to the world.

[GummyBearz]

5. Thanks for protesting the war

But no thanks for letting Reagan run the country into the mess it is now. 49 states voted for him in 1984... only people born before 1966 could have voted for him.

[Brainstormy]

10. well, I wasn't one of them!

and that's a new one on me. Blaming the boomers for Reagan.

[GummyBearz]

13. Thats a new one?

Who else voted for him other than 60 year old ww2 vets?

People born between 46-66 voted for Reagan. I'll see you in my class.

[LiberalElite]

20. Huh? I was 30 when Reagan won. nt

[LiberalElite]

21. Do you read

what you type? First it's everyone born from '46 to '66 you're mad at and then it's 60 year old WWII vets.

[GummyBearz]

23. Do you comprehend

The ww2 vets are mostly gone (and therefore cannot take JC classes as mentioned previously). While they may have voted for Reagan, the boomers out numbered them, and thus contributed to the 49/50 states won by Reagan.

Gen X,Y,millenials brought us Obama, on the other hand. So Generation boomer brought us Reagan and generation x,y,millenial brought us Obama. If that's not reason enough that boomers, in general, need a lesson from gen x and y, I dont know what is

[LiberalElite]

24. I don't need any friggin lesson from you nt

[GummyBearz]

25. Typical boomer mentality

I'm older and wiser. Just ignore the fact we voted for Reagan as a generation. We know better.

We are sick of it. Just thank us for paying out the last legs of social security and don't take our class. The future is brighter

[pinboy3niner]

29. "Typical boomer mentality" is an absolutely ridiculous term to use

You're talking about a generation of 30 million men and 30 million women, straight and gay, all colors and ethnicities, Republicans, Democrats, Independents, Libertarians, Birchers, Greens, Communists, Socialists, Secessionists, and whatever.

And you think there's a typical mentality? And ALL need to go back to school to unlearn obedience to authority and stop following Reaganism?

[GummyBearz]

30. It would be a start

Lots more work required to undo what they left us with

[pinboy3niner]

31. Your problem is broadbrushing all of us as "they"

You can expect pushback, especially here, from Liberal boomers who worked and fought against authoritarianism and Reaganism every step of the way.

You might reconsider your admonition that we "all" need to be educated to unlearn our authoritarian ways.

[GummyBearz]

32. Point taken

I just don't know how to get the Reaganists to take a "think for yourself" type class unless everyone has to. Its a silly hypothetical scenario anyway.

[pinboy3niner]

33. And you realize you're taking that point from a Vietnam vet :)

Kind of ironic, isn't it?

[CBGLuthier]

35. Who brought us GWB smart guy?

Who brought us Carter? Who voted for fucking LBJ.

You are clueless and no it is not because i am a little bit older than you it is because you are clueless and probably always will be.

[GummyBearz]

37. lol...

LBJ? Uh... no one from gen X or Y was even born yet

GWB? The supreme court brought us GWB, smart guy, guess how old they they are?

[CBGLuthier]

34. 50 year old Korean War vets

This tail end of the boomer set has never voted republican and resents your trashing us like we are some fucking monolithic groups of cretins.

[TexasBushwhacker]

38. Who else voted for Reagan?

Southern white Democrats. They called them Dixiecrats.

Keep in mind that an electoral landslide is not a landslide in popular votes. Reagan got less than 51% of the popular vote. He just got it in almost every state.

I am a boomer, born in 57, and I voted for Carter.

[Blue_In_AK]

15. I wasn't one of them either.

I had seen quite enough of Reagan when he was my governor in California. "If you've seen one redwood, you've seen them all." "If it takes a bloodbath, let's get it over with. No more appeasement." I cried the day he was elected president.

[LiberalElite]

19. I'm a boomer and I did not vote for Reagan nt

[6chars]

27. Thank you for everything.

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ok, just watch this - you might find it to be extremely funny.

[snooper2]

6. um, wrong pictures of boomers, try these

[annabanana]

7. as in sis-boomer-bah?. .That's the 40's for godssake. . .n/t

[bettyellen]

8. You're off by a good ten years there Snooper. All the hippies were boomers-

But not the bobby soxers- but those are the ones who voted Reagan in.

[Art_from_Ark]

16. Not all hippies were boomers

If you start the "boomer era" as starting at 1946, then that would leave out such famous hippies as the Beatles, most of the Stones, Cream, Abbie Hoffman, etal. And no doubt some of the lesser-known Summer of Love hippies were more than 21 years old in the summer of 1967.

[Brainstormy]

11. Huh?

boomers, you say?

[lumberjack_jeff]

14. Those who were teens in 1950 aren't boomers. n/t

[snooper2]

36. boomers start 1946

[LiberalElite]

18. What the?!?!????

Way to broadbrush a lot of people. I think someone else needs to work on an education....

P.S. I went to college at night from 1975 to 1986 while working full-time. Graduated with a B.A. I ain't never goin' back.

[Stellar]

9. When I found myself, my sister and brothers were already here.

Why is it that I see myself as baby boomer too, when I was born a year before the boomer years?

[Brainstormy]

12. because the definition is not fixed

and as it's used by some can be very confusing. Technically, the oldest a boomer should be is about 69 because they need to be born in the boom of babies from the servicemen who came home from WWII. They shouldn't be any younger than about 55 unless their parents were really, really slow getting going with the booming.

[TexasBushwhacker]

17. LOL - I always thought the Big Chief

looked like my grandfather. He was half Cherokee.

[Codeine]

22. While this iPad cover fits my GenX background nicely;

[tularetom]

26. I have a kid who is a boomer

And she's been going to school in one form or another, since 1969.

[Brainstormy]

39. I think that's lovely, and

one of my recent eye-opening moments was when I was joking with some folks about being so old that I was lying about my kid's ages, too, and she said, "I have three kids over sixty."

Well, bless her. and you, too. and as a boomer myself who kept going to school for a long time --long enough to get a bachelor's degree, an MA, and a Phd and to teach for 15 years in an (almost) major university, I don't take lightly to blanket criticism of the "boomers" or to ageism generally. Do they think this will miss them? Will they not get old? La. Was I ever that young and stupid?

[Autumn]

28. Love it. Who can't remember learning to write on that tablet