If the WWII era provided the US with the "greatest generation" - which generation is it's WORST?

[devilgrrl]

I nominate mine generation (born between 1961-1970) based solely on the likes of Ari Fleischer, David Frum, Joe Scarborough, Glenn Beck, Laura Ingraham, Ann Coulter, etc...

Someone please prove me wrong. :-(

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

1. I'm going to go with the "greatest" generation as the worst.

Actually, not really. This Generation A vs. Generation B thing's a bunch of bullshit.

The greatest generation's definitely overrated though.

[devilgrrl]

2. I agree. But mine is abyssmal...

so many fundies and righties, truly frightening. :puke:

[Arugula Latte]

3. I was going to say the same thing -- I was born in '66

Our generation is sort of between Boomers and Gen Xers, and we came of age under that evil old creep Reagan. A lot of (now) 40-somethings fell for the I-got-mine-and-screw-you greed mentality of the Ronnie Repukes. The younger generation is much cooler.

[Parche]

4. The Young Conservatives of Today

Whenever they were born......................:puke: :puke:

:hi:

[devilgrrl]

6. They were born in the tail end of the Baby Boom.

The years I stated.

[devilgrrl]

5. You should read some of the profiles of my high school classmates....

fucking mind-boggling. We were born in the latter part of the 20th century and some of these people believe in things that folks in the 12th Century wouldn't have fallen for. Pretty friggin' frightening!

[CrownPrinceBandar]

7. I wouldn't say our generation is the worst, per se........

But there are an awful lot of selfish pricks that were born into it. I was born in '67, but I feel like and identify myself as a Gen X'er.

[Cabcere]

8. I don't know about worst, but I'd say that yours has some redeeming qualities!

Jon Stewart, for one (1962), and Stephen Colbert (1964), along with many more I'm sure. (Hooray for Wikipedia!) And as a 21-year-old (Generation Y, or Slacker, or Entitlement...whatever the latest "description" is :eyes: ), I'd have to say that those two gentlemen have had more influence on people of my generation than probably all of the people (and I use that term loosely) you mentioned. :hi: Peace.

[devilgrrl]

9. They're "voices in the wilderness" - but you kids are the torch bearers!

Put this nation back on track!!!!!

[Cabcere]

10. We're doing our best.

:hi:

[democracyindanger]

11. I see your list and raise you

a Valerie Plame, Pat Tillman and Sibel Edmonds.

Keep in mind nobody called them the Greatest Generation until Brokaw coined the phrase in 1998. Talk to me again in 30 or 40 years. Our book is still being written.

[devilgrrl]

12. Pat Tillman was fragged, Sibel Edmonds ignored and Valerie Plame slandered...

let us hope that we redeem ourselves.

BTW, Tom Browkaw is a self-important windbag.

[Taverner]

13. Ahhh the end of the "me" generation/ beginning of Gen X

But then again it does have you Mizzzz Devilgirl, and I. And it has Janeane Garafalo and Margaret Cho - so it can't be all that bad.

[devilgrrl]

14. No, it may not be so but it feels like it is.

:cry:

[Taverner]

15. It also has Thom Yorke, Trey Anastasio and Dean and Gene Ween

It's just the assholes who get all the press.

[cemaphonic]

16. How about the generation leading up to the Civil War?

Bleeding Kansas, fights (actual fights with fists and canes) in Congress making anything going on today look like pattycake, Southern politicians trying to make a moral case for slavery, and the mainstream anti-slavery parties (Free Soilers and Republicans)merely wanted to prevent the expansion of slavery into the new territories.

[Oeditpus Rex]

17. I think any answer to this would be a generalization

And, quoth Oliver Wendell Holmes, "No generalization is worth a damn — including this one." :)

[Joey Liberal]

18. This generation of evangelical conservatives is the worst n/t

[Wcross]

19. The worst? The Jones Generation!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Jones

The connotations of the name “Generation Jones” include:

1) A large, anonymous generation.
2) The slang term “jonesin,” which refers here to the unrequited craving felt by this generation of unfulfilled expectations.

I am a generation Jones baby.

[devilgrrl]

20. Aren't we awful?

this made me even sicker...

Analysis of recent Research2000 election polling data indicates that Generation Jones, the large generation between the Baby Boom Generation and Generation X, may be the decisive vote on November 7.

GenJonesers are currently 41 to 52 years old, comprise approximately a third of the electorate, and are known for their high levels of volatility and persuadability in elections.

Generation Jones was widely reported to be the crucial vote that re-elected George W Bush in the 2004 election, partly because of a large swing by women Jonesers in the final week of that campaign. GenJones women were the only generation, of the five American generations of women, which voted for President Bush in the 2004 election.

“I’ll be carefully watching the voting behavior of Generation Jones in this final stretch to election day” said Del Ali, founder and head of Research 2000, “It might well unfold that whichever party captures the Generation Jones vote will win on November 7”.

http://www.research2000.us/2006/11/01/generation-jones-could-be-key-to-06-midterm-election-results/

[Wcross]

21. large swing by women Jonesers .........

Only the women, we men Jonesers are flawless:o

[mitchum]

24. I am also of that generation and , in my opinion, we are characterized by cynicism...

either
a skeptical cynicism (we came of age when many of America's most cherished lies were revealed to be...well...lies)
or
a low animal cunning type of cynical behavior Ari Fleischer, David Frum, Joe Scarborough, Glenn Beck, Laura Ingraham, Ann Coulter don't believe the blather that they spew. But they know that there are plenty of rubes who do.

[Ishoutandscream2]

22. Agreed, and I was born in 61

We were a very lethargic, apathetic group. Only concerned about making money. In college, all I remember were a bunch of little "Reagan's" running around. It was disgusting.

[Arugula Latte]

25. Remember all the little preppies running around?

Penny loafers, pink Izod shirts, plaid pants, kilts with argyle sweaters ... That was my high school dress code in the early 80s. :scared:

[devilgrrl]

27. Remember the 'Preppy Handbook", 'Blair' from 'Facts of Life'...

Alex Keaton from 'Family Ties'?

[Arugula Latte]

28. Do I ever. You're talkin' bout my g-g-geeeeneration ...

I had a friend who modeled her life on the Preppy Handbook. I started calling her "Muffy."

[devilgrrl]

29. I knew a woman who went by "Muffy"

What trip she was! :crazy:

[Fire Walk With Me]

23. The generations who allowed George Bush to steal America

and propel us into being a 2nd-world economy (or perhaps worse, time will tell).

[MnFats]

26. the post wwII generation sucked....the ones who came to power around 1950-52...

the communist witch hunts, Joe McCarthy, Red Scare, blacklist, Cold War hysteria....racism & Jim Crow still in full force in the south as well as, let's be honest, the rest of the country....nuke testing without regard for the long-term effects....

fortuneatly the beatniks, free speech people and rock n roll came along by the mid/late 50s to kick some ass.