The Destructive Generation—Proving America’s
Weakest Link
American Greatness,
by
Victor Davis Hanson
Original Article
Posted By: Moritz55,
6/3/2024 3:21:44 PM
Governor Ronald Reagan, in his 1967 inaugural address, famously remarked, “Freedom is a fragile thing and it’s never more than one generation away from extinction.” Reagan today might have expanded on his theme by declaring that civilization itself is both fragile and can lost by a generation that recklessly spends its inheritance while neither appreciating nor replenishing it—if not ridiculing those who sacrificed so much to provide it.
Such is the noxious epitaph of the Baby Boomer generation that is now passing after a half-century of preeminence and whose Jacobin agendas have nearly wrecked the nation they inherited.
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daisey 6/3/2024 3:34:44 PM (No. 1730514)
I love Victor Davis Hanson, but as a 78 year old baby boomer, I’m a little offended. Went to college, married, had a son, worked in surgery for over 30 years as a nurse I guess the Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dorns led us down this road. Yes the 60s were crazy, but not all of us were marching or smoking or against “the man”.
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Skinnydip 6/3/2024 4:02:29 PM (No. 1730529)
I love VDH too but don't lump me in with irresponsible and corrupt politicians, lawyers and professors.
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I too am a little offended. Granted many of the problems our nation faces have been caused by left leaning members of the Boomer generation. But to blame the entire generation for the actions of what I believe to be a minority of the generation is an overreach .Also many of the fiscal problems are a result of programs initiated by Democrats of previous generations. ( FDR and LBJ among others)
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Mr. Hanson needs to devote some attention to the kamikaze geezers of the "Silent Generation" like Joe Biden, Mitch McConnell and Nancy Pelosi.
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FJB 6/3/2024 5:17:42 PM (No. 1730564)
VDH Defines profundity.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Geoman 6/3/2024 5:33:14 PM (No. 1730577)
VDH, several years older than me in our shared boomerhood, was basking in his cushy California college life, with his draft deferral, while I was elbowing my way to the front of the line to voluntarily join the USMC. My Native American father also volunteered, and fought his way into the middle class through his service in WWII, Korea, and two tours in Vietnam, the war to be avoided by the sons of the upper echelon of the middle class and the sons of the wealthy.
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SkyKing1222 6/3/2024 6:04:03 PM (No. 1730593)
Can’t see how Baby Boomers, as an entire generation either supported or benefited from the corrupt politicians of this era.
The mention of many Amendments in this article falls to point out the 17th, which fundamentally changed our form of Government, passed 30 odd years before the first Baby Boomers were born.
Or the twice failed Balanced Budget Amendment by a Democrat held Senate, that l doubt was controlled by Boomers in the mid 90’s.
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Pinkpanther 6/3/2024 8:17:38 PM (No. 1730646)
As a Gen Xer raised by boomers, I asked my parents where they were when all of these radical changes were taking place. They just shrugged and said “we thought they would just go away”. Heh….its wrong to blame an entire generation but I believe those who didn’t put a stop to this are accomplices and complacent in the destruction.
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danu 6/3/2024 8:56:10 PM (No. 1730664)
i disagree.
america is living off the largest generation--boomers, their hard work, innovations, talents and productivity.
they were mocked and spat upon as they were being lied to, shipped off to war, experimented on ...with drugs
and weird programmes, taxed to a fare-thee-well. most are patriots. they gave their all to family, faith, country.
the boomer presidents stink on ice, then and now, parasites of all generations-domestic and global.
however, let us recall-pdt is a boomer, is he not?
he chose to reject the triumph of evil, and work for the good.
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mifla 6/4/2024 7:26:20 AM (No. 1730839)
Years ago, I told one of my nephews that history will record that the Baby Boomers inherited the highest standard of living in the history of the nation, and destroyed it in a single generation. Agree that not all boomers are responsible, but many were.
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Trapper 6/4/2024 7:14:08 PM (No. 1731291)
I must respectfully and emphatically disagree with VDH. The moral rot began with the Silent Generation, those born between 1928 and 1945, too young to participate in WW2, but not Boomers. That Silent Generation was largely responsible for the morally bankrupt movies and television shows in the 50's and 60's, the toxic cultural palblum fed to Boomers as they grew up that inevitably produced the insanity of the 60's. You can't feed children moral poison, then blame them for becoming morally deformed. We Boomers just did what we were taught to do by Hud and Cool Hand Luke.
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Trapper 6/4/2024 7:21:57 PM (No. 1731294)
Sorry for the second post, but while I am at it, the Boomers didn't wreck the economy. We were just low to mid level management while the Silent Generation who were actually in charge made the decisions to ship American manufacturing jobs to China. We Boomers just had to try to make those decisions work, but they were not OUR decisions. Our fathers fought WW2. Our younger uncles sold it all to China. We Boomers just tried to make their disatrous policies work. Of course it was a fool's errand, but Boomers were sent on that errand by the Silent Generation.
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