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Maria2000 · 57w
Bad choices are not something specific to any generation, bad choices are a personal thing. And the picture you paint of all these opportunities and easy life is not accurate, i saw how hard life cou...
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Making a living on the internet is not a low skill entry level position with a pension.

Your argument that bad choices being a personal thing could be extended to your proposition that life has been hard for “many” in the Boomer generation.

The Boomers as a whole make bad choices that may be in their immediate best interests, but have long term consequences they do not fully understand.

The Boomers’ choices have resulted in an unbalanced government. Instead of a right wing and a left wing party we have a right wing and centrist party (thanks to Clinton and perpetuated by Obama).

The Boomers refuse to acknowledge group responsibility or personal responsibility. They are a generation that has manufactured their own suffering and now try to pass the responsibility onto the generations that followed them.

The only thing anyone is asking for from the Boomers is to step aside and pass the torch to a new generation, which they failed to do with Gen X, and now the Millennial for their turn. Meanwhile Dianne Feinstein refuses to step aside for a new generation and dies in office.
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Maria2000 · 57w
Again, my point is that i dont blame a large swath of society just because they live in a time when bad things happen. I dont feel personally responsible for anything that happens today, except for my own decisions.
Joshua Farr · 57w
As for asking them to step asside…I’ve been finding that the Boomers are waiting for younger generations to grow up and take initiative so the Boomers can feel comfortable passing the torch to them. Torches are earned, not given! It takes willingness to learn and grow- from BOTH side of that e...
Joshua Farr · 57w
I’m confused - are the Boomers certain politicians, or your parents/grandparents? Because if you’re talking about politicians, I won’t sit here and defend them - most are useless wastes of skin. If you’re talking about the generations of people before me, iI’ll defend them more vigor...