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Boomers are directly and almost solely responsible for the current partisan mechanics undermining American civics. They've also held on to power far too long, a

Boomers are directly and almost solely responsible for the current partisan mechanics undermining American civics. They've also held on to power far too long, and impose way too much influence for people whose judgment and behavior over the last 5 decades have seriously endangered the continuity of anything resembling principled American government. Some of us peons are a little pissed at the people who looted the system and kicked the can to future generations. The pandemic response is a perfect example of the ineptitude and lackadaisical attitude those in power have towards their responsibility to maintain and preserve the things that make America good. Nobody will be held responsible for the negligence, corruption, or outright malicious injury.

tehjoker 5y ago
I don't think working class Boomers are to blame. As always, it's the ruling class, which is now a gerontocracy as well.
- wyre 5y ago
  The ruling class is elected by working class boomers
- MisterBastahrd 5y ago
  The working class Boomers are the ones who listened to Rush Limbaugh for 30+ years and internalized weaponized stupidity. It was this brash idiocy and disrespect for opposing voices that lead to the "tea party" Republicans largely taking over that party and ousting anyone who was even half conciliatory to the other side. It's gotten so bad that the corporatists in the party are worried about losing any semblance of representation, much less control. At least half the Republican caucus doesn't believe in any of the crap they're saying, but it plays good on TV and fills their pockets with money. Ted Cruz is not a moron, but he plays one on television because it keeps his campaign coffers full. Democrats in turn started to elect less moderate members. If you could take the 1980s Congress who were still largely Greatest Generation types and transport them to today to view the insane nonsense going on, they would be disappointed by both the process and the Democrats but horrified by the Republicans.
  - 0des 5y ago
    I dont understand your paradoxical justification that Democrats may still be boomers, but they're "one of the good ones though". How does political belief have a relation to age? All healthy people get old eventually and young people can also be non democrat. Perhaps you can tell us more about your biases regarding other protected classes who might have political beliefs that disagree with you. Edit: the post you just made about your career of being a subreddit moderator answered my questions.
    - MisterBastahrd 5y ago
      I didn't say "they were the good ones." I said that if you took the people from the 1980 Congress and brought them to the present time and had them watch how modern Congress operate, that they would be horrified of the behavior of the Republicans and disappointed by the behavior of the Democrats. None of them, for example, would have ever even considered refusing to hold judicial confirmation hearings for a vacant Supreme Court seat for a year. Nor would they have found any of Trump's antics to be worthy of anything but scorn and derision, up to and including the southern Democrats of that era who would identify as Republicans today. Especially in the Senate where they used to be far more independent-minded than they currently are. There aren't any Madison Cawthorne / Marjorie Taylor Greene / Lauren Bobert / Matt Gaetzes on the Democratic side of the aisle. They have nothing at all of substance to offer in congressional hearings, always angling for the next soundbyte. As shrill as AOC is on the other side of the aisle, she still at least goes to those hearings prepared to ask relevant questions.
bluedevil2k 5y ago
EVERY generation blames the generation in power for the problems in the world. The Boomers today were the ones doing drugs, going to Woodstock, and blaming the guys in power for the worlds problems. There’s nothing special about Boomers and certainly nothing special about your generation. I mean, I was recently at Pompeii, there’s graffiti on the wall talking about how the politicians are screening everything up.
wincy 5y ago
Absolutely, the pandemic showed that the elderly are in power, and a disease that overwhelmingly affected old people versus the young forced millions of person-years of youth to be wasted in the quixotic attempt to allow the old to live a few more years. I think it’s absolutely shameful what these grandparents have done to traumatize their children and grandchildren.

tehjoker 5y ago

I don't think working class Boomers are to blame. As always, it's the ruling class, which is now a gerontocracy as well.

wyre 5y ago
The ruling class is elected by working class boomers
MisterBastahrd 5y ago
The working class Boomers are the ones who listened to Rush Limbaugh for 30+ years and internalized weaponized stupidity. It was this brash idiocy and disrespect for opposing voices that lead to the "tea party" Republicans largely taking over that party and ousting anyone who was even half conciliatory to the other side. It's gotten so bad that the corporatists in the party are worried about losing any semblance of representation, much less control. At least half the Republican caucus doesn't believe in any of the crap they're saying, but it plays good on TV and fills their pockets with money. Ted Cruz is not a moron, but he plays one on television because it keeps his campaign coffers full. Democrats in turn started to elect less moderate members. If you could take the 1980s Congress who were still largely Greatest Generation types and transport them to today to view the insane nonsense going on, they would be disappointed by both the process and the Democrats but horrified by the Republicans.
- 0des 5y ago
  I dont understand your paradoxical justification that Democrats may still be boomers, but they're "one of the good ones though". How does political belief have a relation to age? All healthy people get old eventually and young people can also be non democrat. Perhaps you can tell us more about your biases regarding other protected classes who might have political beliefs that disagree with you. Edit: the post you just made about your career of being a subreddit moderator answered my questions.
  - MisterBastahrd 5y ago
    I didn't say "they were the good ones." I said that if you took the people from the 1980 Congress and brought them to the present time and had them watch how modern Congress operate, that they would be horrified of the behavior of the Republicans and disappointed by the behavior of the Democrats. None of them, for example, would have ever even considered refusing to hold judicial confirmation hearings for a vacant Supreme Court seat for a year. Nor would they have found any of Trump's antics to be worthy of anything but scorn and derision, up to and including the southern Democrats of that era who would identify as Republicans today. Especially in the Senate where they used to be far more independent-minded than they currently are. There aren't any Madison Cawthorne / Marjorie Taylor Greene / Lauren Bobert / Matt Gaetzes on the Democratic side of the aisle. They have nothing at all of substance to offer in congressional hearings, always angling for the next soundbyte. As shrill as AOC is on the other side of the aisle, she still at least goes to those hearings prepared to ask relevant questions.

bluedevil2k 5y ago

EVERY generation blames the generation in power for the problems in the world. The Boomers today were the ones doing drugs, going to Woodstock, and blaming the guys in power for the worlds problems. There’s nothing special about Boomers and certainly nothing special about your generation. I mean, I was recently at Pompeii, there’s graffiti on the wall talking about how the politicians are screening everything up.

wincy 5y ago

Absolutely, the pandemic showed that the elderly are in power, and a disease that overwhelmingly affected old people versus the young forced millions of person-years of youth to be wasted in the quixotic attempt to allow the old to live a few more years. I think it’s absolutely shameful what these grandparents have done to traumatize their children and grandchildren.