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The parents of boomers would be aghast at what their children have been up to.
The parents of boomers are sometimes just Nazis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1939_Nazi_rally_at_Madison_Square_Garden
MAGAs are all ages.
Unfortunately, yes.
You're not wrong. But make no mistake, what is happening now mostly began and (hopefully) ends with the Boomer generation. They have failed the United States in so very many ways. They constantly blame others for their own failings. They can't even define the word "introspection." They would rather watch the world burn than let anyone, who they are not directly related to, prosper.
Like most people who follow blatant nonsense, younger generations in the US were indoctrinated from birth into the backwards thinking that leads to MAGA even becoming a thing. It's no different than being indoctrinated into religion. It's brainwashing disguised as child rearing.
Not all Boomers are this way. But in my admittedly small sample size, the vast majority that I've ever met, including those in my own family, are. And the craziest thing of it all -- they think they're right and righteous. And that's what makes them dangerous.
It's not a generation war, but a class war. You're playing the wrong game.
They're not mutually exclusive.
There are many many shitty people in every generation. Yes, they are mutually exclusive. Kirk was crap and now his wife is, Fuentes is a POS and Tate is the ultimate POS. There are no generation rules. Stop distracting from the class war.
I will call out bullshit everywhere it is, as I please. Thanks. If it's a distraction to you, that's your problem. Good bye.
Blame Bernie Sanders. He's a boomer.
"Not all Boomers are this way"...I could have sworn I read that some where...
They didn't really raise them...
Like, boomers didn't become boomers out of nowhere. The ones who had fathers who fought nazis, likely didn't have a father come back from the war. And when they did it was a vet (justifiably) shell shocked with zero access to anything resembling mental healthcare.
Good and bad generations are created by the ones before them. We need to learn this lesson so we can stop having little shits running around screeching trump slogans in 6th grade.
Raising competent generations takes effort, or else no one would be the effort in.
We didn't put the effort in as a society with Gen alpha, now they're all little shits and if we don't fix them we're gonna have to live with them the rest of our lives.