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Boomers were hated by their elders for being too liberal and hated by their youngers for being to conservative.
~~Boomers~~ People were hated by their elders for being too liberal and hated by their youngers for being to conservative. Since, like, forever.
Fixed this for you.
They got more conservative as they got older. All those hippie kids who protested Vietnam and experimented with drugs and sex ended up voting for Reagan.
Are you saying they took what they wanted, then pulled the ladder up after them?
It sure seems like they feel that way about social security.
We paid into it, we should be able to get the benefits from it, just like any other American in any other generation.
People seem to have this view that everyone in the '60s was a hippie but that's just not true. Time Magazine put the number around 300,000. In a country of 200 million, that's only 0.15% of the population. They were a counterculture not mainstream culture. The vast majority of kids did not become hippies, and many actively hated the hippies.
A hell of a lot more than 300,000 people experimented with drugs and protested Vietnam.
True, but not all of them were hippies.
A lot of regular people, especially the younger generation, were doing drugs and protesting Vietnam.
Those two things are not what makes a hippie a hippie. It's their life view that does.
'60s, maybe not, but 70s? There was a lot more of them then.
But yeah, not everyone was.
No, we didn't. Also, inflation and Iranian hostage situation.