A Baby Boomer Explains What's Wrong with Millennials
American Thinker,
by
Rob Jenkins
Original Article
Posted By: DVC,
8/29/2021 11:22:43 PM
If you're over 50, you might remember occasionally seeing small children throw temper tantrums in public, 25 or 30 years ago, and wondering what those kids would be like when they grew up.
Well, now you know.
The problem is twofold. First, we Baby Boomers raised a generation of selfish, entitled brats. (I do not include my own children in that description, and if that seems hypocritical and self-serving — well, you don't know my kids.)
Second, in their entitled brattiness, an alarming percentage of that generation — the Millennials — has embraced socialism.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
DVC 8/29/2021 11:24:07 PM (No. 897627)
I apologize for the headline. I broke it three times, and each time the break was removed by the software and the headline kept intact. I gave up at that point, hoping that some automation might be kicking in. Apparently not.
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Well the Boomers just got 13 wonderful Millennials killed and gave America a black eye. As a Boomer I can say the Greatest Generation did a lot of great things but raising outstanding kids wasn’t one of them.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
JL80863 8/29/2021 11:50:45 PM (No. 897642)
More than 40 years of public "education" which was in truth, mass indoctrination, certainly moved things to the far left. Those that escaped group think had parents who were paying attention.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 8/30/2021 12:03:21 AM (No. 897650)
I'm troubled by this societal war between Baby Boomers and Millennials. Was it not the Cloward-Priven Baby Boomers that taught the Millennials? Was it not the Baby Boomers, just by the shear size of their cohort, who dominated all the societal institutions that influenced the younger generation? I see where the Millennials have a point, but it is relevant only to those espousing Marxist ideology. There is no overriding philosophy to any generation, although the Baby Boomers were the first to really live and experience the advancing capture of our institutions by communists.
The general public likes to paint the Baby Boomers as the catalyst for the "progressive" movement. However, I submit that the Boomers were the first victims of what later became known as the Frankfurt School and its progeny, the Cloward-Priven strategy. I believe the presidents of the Ivy League colleges, where the 60's student protests first began, were part and parcel of the stealth communist takeover of the United States. Why didn't any of the presidents just expel the unruly students? Why did they allow the sit-ins to go on for days? It was all part of the plan to turn the children of the Greatest Generation against their parents. Add in the assassinations of JFK, RFK and MLK and you have a generation of children experiencing horrendous murders of public figures. Then the topping on the cake was the war in Vietnam, never meant to be won.
I don't like my generation of Baby Boomers being the scapegoat for all that is wrong in our culture, and I don't think the broad brush painting of the Millennials as snowflakes is accurate either. The Millennials are the future of the United States. Its best to help them understand how both generations are victims of forces that were put into play over a hundred years ago. Quit blaming each other, and lets work together towards a More Perfect Union.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Italiano 8/30/2021 12:15:25 AM (No. 897661)
I raised two Marines, which is why I am as insanely angry as I am, and why I want to see happen what I want to see happen here. I could have been one of those dads. My son came back. 32 of his guys didn't.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DVC 8/30/2021 12:46:34 AM (No. 897686)
#5, it is truly wonderful that your Marine came back. Very happy to hear it.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Aubreyesque 8/30/2021 12:55:20 AM (No. 897688)
As a GenXer who has spent all her life in the shadow of Boomers who cooed with delight when we took up liberal causes, but loved to excoriate and mock us for not being like them anyway, actually agree with #4 - as a grown up I can look back at history now and wonder why it was that the Greatest Generation just up and quit fighting for America when they got back from the War...I get that they felt they did enough and were just busy "getting back to normal" and taking advantage of the prosperity that came after the War because of all the new technilogical advancements....but why didnt the parents of the trust fund babies shut them down when they started joining The Weather Underground and bombing people or why didnt they disinherit their progeny when they started protesting. Its like they just didnt give a darn what their kids did, as long as it didnt interrupt their bridge parties. So yeah, Greatest Generation did great things...over there. Back home, its like they either didnt believe their kids could cause problems or they just checked out themselves.
But then we could also go into the after effects of WWI aka "The Great War" - look at all the European elitist existential class envy they brought back with them. Europeans have always hated Americans - they could never grasp the idea of America or a self made American that didnt adhere to bloodlines and class and stultifying "staying in your place." The Roaring Twenties were rife with corruption and greed and breakdown of the social order...
I dunno. Its easy to blame the Boomers, but only because the drumbeat from them while I was growing up was "why cant you be more like what we were?" And all I could think was "for people who raved about being rebellious and not conforming, they sure are keen to make us all alike." The poor millennials had no experience of the opposite to see that what was going on, no Iron Curtain or seeing the ravages of the drug culture. They thought the drug culture was par for the course and just what was supposed to happen.
Generations are difficult to deal with. I tell you what, I will back off if Boomers stop accusing us of being apathetic (we're not, just dont want to be like Boomers) and the millennials stop equating my generation with Boomers. We're not. And millennials are going to find out soon enough what socialism means. Y'all are going to need friends. I suggest you start understand the generations that came before you a little better....
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
local500 8/30/2021 3:37:48 AM (No. 897723)
This generation is lost.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
GustoGrabber 8/30/2021 3:47:37 AM (No. 897725)
Baby boomers, of which I am one, have shown a tremendous indifference to the culture and traditions of our oh so unsophisticated forefathers. The flag waving and Church going of the fifties embarrassed the children of the sixties who, as pointed out above, took over state universities to till the soil and plant seeds of secularism and communism. Vatican two didn’t help, as religious traditions of the bell cow of Americans patch quilt of Christian society, the Catholic parishes , were replaced by thinly disguised Marxist social goals. Those baby boomers were discouraged from bringing their faith with them in their daily existence, and don’t you dare object to public education’s efforts to question the moral foundations of America.
And they worked hard not to push faith and religion on their kids. They’ll find God on their own, we said. Don’t push, they’ll resist. And here we are, a generation with no moral absolutes, no logic or objective truth, who got their politics watching Captain Planet and religion from the new and improved Disney studio.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
mifla 8/30/2021 4:58:02 AM (No. 897734)
History will record that the Baby Boomers inherited a free and affluent nation, and destroyed it in a single generation.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Jennie C. 8/30/2021 10:05:54 AM (No. 897979)
I disagree with this. We Boomers did not raise the millennials. Unfortunately, we raised the ones who raised them.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
MDConservative 8/30/2021 11:10:39 AM (No. 898060)
General prosperity breeds a wasteful and wasted society. It's not unlike the cycle of wealth, where generations move further away from the energy, drive, discipline, opportunity and instinct of the initial building, so family wealth generally dissipates and decays as less is prudently invested and more spent. In the lesser economic rungs, if a family is happy with air conditioned voucher housing, WIC and EBT/SNAP cards, food pantries, cable TV and free cell phones, what's the incentive?
That kid that grew up in that big house thinks that's the starting point in life. She didn't earn it; her parent(s) did. And she gets full benefit. Struggle through school? Oh, no. Between scholarships and mommy's money there was no need, once that gap year traipse in the Himalayas ended. Americans hate to understand how rich they, the middle class, have become. It creates a burden, or lifts one. Ask your grandmother whether she ever dreamed of living in a $100,000 house...even if a figment created by inflation.
Middle class kids have no worries becasue they have been insulated from them. Instead they have a credit card that works at the coffee barista and that new bistro. They know they always have a home with mom and dad, like when their employer expects results beyond fluff.
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A lot of truth here. I know some millenials who are not like this, but it appears that way too many are like this.