Reply #52: Thank you

[MedleyMisty]

I was born in 1980, and I get so tired of the sanctimonious Baby Boomers. It's like - look at the age of the people who destroyed everything for their own gain and wrecked my future. They are Baby Boomers.

Believe me, I get that you can't paint a whole generation with the same brush. But that goes both ways. I can't say that all Baby Boomers are selfish greedy fascists, but you also can't say that all Baby Boomers are lovely nice peaceful progressive hippies.

And yeah - Americans have never been nice. The system has always been a feudal pyramid. It's just that the people who used to be in the middle are now getting their toys taken away. I'm sure the Native Americans didn't think Americans were all nice and sweet and had empathy. Neither did the slaves, or their descendants. I've seen postcards made with pictures of lynchings, from well before Reagan.

No one gave workers the rights and benefits that are being taken away out of the goodness of their hearts. Workers had to fight and die for them. They had to fight a system just like the one the corporations want to take us back to. This isn't something new in our history. This is going back a hundred years, to how Americans used to be.

So tired of white middle class exceptionalism, i.e. "Well, I've always been comfortable in my white middle class life, so therefore everything was all fine and perfect and wonderful before my white middle class life was threatened."