Reply #12: We older boomers were lauded as the first generation

[Warpy]

to grow up without hunger as a common fact of life. That really was true for most of us. While our parents might have been poor in material things, they always managed to get something onto the table three times a day, something their parents hadn't been able to manage.

So in that way, I suppose we were spoiled. So are Gen X and Y.

However, liberals went out of power in 1969 and we older boomers have taken every economic dislocation full force. We saw the greatest decline in men's wages this country had ever seen and that flood of women into the workplace wasn't exactly voluntary. We had to work twice as hard to get half of what our parents did under the New Deal and most of us are facing a bleak retirement, if we can retire at all.

I think nearly every generation that comes along blames their elders for the world they are stuck with and blames the younger generation for being spoiled and not understanding how hard their parents had to work to spoil them.

However, few of us are consulted when it comes to determining how the world works and none of us controls the circumstances of our birth.

The simpleminded MSM has a great stake in keeping generations separated and at war. It makes great copy and anger sells papers and advertising slots. In addition, a lot of older boomers did challenge the established class order and corporate structure and they'll just never be able to forgive us for that.

This is what infuriates me so much about boomer bashing posts, the fact that some fools actually buy the notion that one generation oppresses another when it's the class structure in this country that does the oppression.

Part of growing up is recognizing who your enemies really are. Hint: it's not Mom and Dad or any of their friends.