Boomers know what's happening.

[Ray9]

If you’re a Baby Boomer you may remember that your school days were presided over by very different people than the faceless, bureaucratic masses that call themselves educators today. You may recall as well that mass media, newspapers, radio and television, were fiercely objective in their reporting of news events.

Those were two legs of a three-legged stool with the remaining leg being government that worked in cooperation with differing points of view, often compromising for the benefit of the people. The lunatic fringe existed but it was kept at bay for the greater good of maintaining order in a nation of laws.

Past people in education, media and government had grown up during the Great depression, knew the value of sacrifice and hard work and were patriotic to a fault. They were acutely aware that Communism was the greatest threat to personal freedom and individual liberty with the Soviet Union leading the charge.

As the decades passed US intellectuals began to study communism concluding that it was a great idea run by the wrong people. They apparently surmised that the Soviets failed using tanks and invasions because they went too fast without stupefying the citizens with educational indoctrination and propagandized media for a few generations first as the US has done since Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society.

Intellectuals in American education and national politics have tactically one-upped the soviets by making large factions of the US population so dumb that they willingly vote away their freedoms under the false impression that government central planning acts in their favor by evening the score in all kinds of ridiculous imaginary struggles.

While US elites sell out the people to globalist interests all over the world, many brainwashed US citizens are preoccupied and cerebrally distracted with white privilege and blaming other people for the weather. Why use tanks and invasions when you can make the people so stupid that they’ll just walk right into your wheelhouse and give up everything to government including their freedom?

US educational and political elites do not see the Russian and Chinese communists as enemies, they see them as competitors, and they are trying to beat them at their own game sometimes using the lunatic fringe and media strategies borrowed from the Soviets as allies.

Donald Trump came just in time and only the dimwits can’t see what’s going on with all this impeachment talk.

 

[Tax Man]

If you’re a Baby Boomer you may remember that your school days were presided over by very different people than the faceless, bureaucratic masses that call themselves educators today. You may recall as well that mass media, newspapers, radio and television, were fiercely objective in their reporting of news events.

Those were two legs of a three-legged stool with the remaining leg being government that worked in cooperation with differing points of view, often compromising for the benefit of the people. The lunatic fringe existed but it was kept at bay for the greater good of maintaining order in a nation of laws.

Past people in education, media and government had grown up during the Great depression, knew the value of sacrifice and hard work and were patriotic to a fault. They were acutely aware that Communism was the greatest threat to personal freedom and individual liberty with the Soviet Union leading the charge.

As the decades passed US intellectuals began to study communism concluding that it was a great idea run by the wrong people. They apparently surmised that the Soviets failed using tanks and invasions because they went too fast without stupefying the citizens with educational indoctrination and propagandized media for a few generations first as the US has done since Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society.

Intellectuals in American education and national politics have tactically one-upped the soviets by making large factions of the US population so dumb that they willingly vote away their freedoms under the false impression that government central planning acts in their favor by evening the score in all kinds of ridiculous imaginary struggles.

While US elites sell out the people to globalist interests all over the world, many brainwashed US citizens are preoccupied and cerebrally distracted with white privilege and blaming other people for the weather. Why use tanks and invasions when you can make the people so stupid that they’ll just walk right into your wheelhouse and give up everything to government including their freedom?

US educational and political elites do not see the Russian and Chinese communists as enemies, they see them as competitors, and they are trying to beat them at their own game sometimes using the lunatic fringe and media strategies borrowed from the Soviets as allies.

Donald Trump came just in time and only the dimwits can’t see what’s going on with all this impeachment talk.

You started of well but lost it about halfway through. It is the republicrooks who are using Goebbels methods of subliminal messaging to brainwash them. Liberals can see through the maze as we have a skeptic eye for information.

 

[Ray9]

If you’re a Baby Boomer you may remember that your school days were presided over by very different people than the faceless, bureaucratic masses that call themselves educators today. You may recall as well that mass media, newspapers, radio and television, were fiercely objective in their reporting of news events.

Those were two legs of a three-legged stool with the remaining leg being government that worked in cooperation with differing points of view, often compromising for the benefit of the people. The lunatic fringe existed but it was kept at bay for the greater good of maintaining order in a nation of laws.

Past people in education, media and government had grown up during the Great depression, knew the value of sacrifice and hard work and were patriotic to a fault. They were acutely aware that Communism was the greatest threat to personal freedom and individual liberty with the Soviet Union leading the charge.

As the decades passed US intellectuals began to study communism concluding that it was a great idea run by the wrong people. They apparently surmised that the Soviets failed using tanks and invasions because they went too fast without stupefying the citizens with educational indoctrination and propagandized media for a few generations first as the US has done since Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society.

Intellectuals in American education and national politics have tactically one-upped the soviets by making large factions of the US population so dumb that they willingly vote away their freedoms under the false impression that government central planning acts in their favor by evening the score in all kinds of ridiculous imaginary struggles.

While US elites sell out the people to globalist interests all over the world, many brainwashed US citizens are preoccupied and cerebrally distracted with white privilege and blaming other people for the weather. Why use tanks and invasions when you can make the people so stupid that they’ll just walk right into your wheelhouse and give up everything to government including their freedom?

US educational and political elites do not see the Russian and Chinese communists as enemies, they see them as competitors, and they are trying to beat them at their own game sometimes using the lunatic fringe and media strategies borrowed from the Soviets as allies.

Donald Trump came just in time and only the dimwits can’t see what’s going on with all this impeachment talk.

You started of well but lost it about halfway through. It is the republicrooks who are using Goebbels methods of subliminal messaging to brainwash them. Liberals can see through the maze as we have a skeptic eye for information.

Nice to see that the old "I know you are but what am I?" argument is still kicking around.

 

[occupied]

Boomers are the most entitled and spoiled generation of humans in history. Left to their senile devices they will try to take the country with them into death.

 

[Ray9]

Boomers are the most entitled and spoiled generation of humans in history. Left to their senile devices they will try to take the country with them into death.

It's telling that you think of people as components of groups instead of parents, grandparents or older fellow Americans. You have been taught well grasshopper.

 

[Mr Natural]

Boomers are the most entitled and spoiled generation of humans in history. Left to their senile devices they will try to take the country with them into death.

On the other hand, did you ever stop to think that maybe the entire purpose of the human experiment here on planet earth was to see to it that the Boomer generation had the best of everything?

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Boomers are the most entitled and spoiled generation of humans in history. Left to their senile devices they will try to take the country with them into death.

I absolutely agree.

 

[occupied]

Boomers are the most entitled and spoiled generation of humans in history. Left to their senile devices they will try to take the country with them into death.

It's telling that you think of people as components of groups instead of parents, grandparents or older fellow Americans. You have been taught well grasshopper.

I am not a boomer, but I'm close. I was born on the cusp between those who enjoyed the full benefit of post-war prosperity and opportunity and those who were the first to be told that America can no longer afford to invest in it's youth. Some people call us Gen X. I'm Older middle aged but in my mind I will never be as old as you.

 

[Ray9]

Boomers are the most entitled and spoiled generation of humans in history. Left to their senile devices they will try to take the country with them into death.

On the other hand, did you ever stop to think that maybe the entire purpose of the human experiment here on planet earth was to see to it that the Boomer generation had the best of everything?

Thanks to Jonas Salk and Alexander Fleming we did get a lot compared to our parents. But we knew what we were getting and why we were getting it. It was understood and appreciated by most.

We also got Vietnam and that's when many of us began to distrust government.

 

[wamose]

Boomers are the most entitled and spoiled generation of humans in history. Left to their senile devices they will try to take the country with them into death.

If we don't save you from your stupidity, we'll feel guilty.

 

[Mr Natural]

I’m a Boomer

Can’t say I’m especially proud of being a Boomer since I had absolutely nothing to do with being a Boomer.

But I am thankful.

We had the best of everything.

 

[Ray9]

I’m a Boomer

Can’t say I’m especially proud of being a Boomer since I had absolutely nothing to do with being a Boomer.

But I am thankful.

We had the best of everything.

I got my first job in 1962 at 15. I worked like a dog for over half a century. I stayed healthy-running, cycling etc. no smoking, drug or alcohol abuse. I get 3 pensions. The kids won't get these things because the government stole them to pay for a ticket to play the globalization game.

 

[CWayne]

Boomers are the most entitled and spoiled generation of humans in history. Left to their senile devices they will try to take the country with them into death.

I find that the most amusing statement made on this forum this week.

Let me give you a glimpse into the most spoiled generation ever seen on this planet as seen through the eyes of one of their own.
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I’m sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of Democratic candidates calling for policies to “fix” the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around. I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook’s, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we’ve become completely blind to it. Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose. These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don’t give them a second thought. We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty. One. Times. Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful.

Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, “An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity.”

Never saw American prosperity. Let that sink in. When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I’ve ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Now, I’m not attributing Miss Ocasio-Cortez’s words to outright dishonesty. I do think she whole-heartedly believes the words she said to be true. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided. My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let’s just say I didn’t have the popular opinion, but I digress.

Let me lay down some universal truths really quick. The United States of America has lifted more people out of abject poverty, spread more freedom and democracy, and has created more innovation in technology and medicine than any other nation in human history. Not only that but our citizenry continually breaks world records with charitable donations, the rags to riches story is not only possible in America but not uncommon, we have the strongest purchasing power on earth, and we encompass 25% of the world’s GDP. The list goes on. However, these universal truths don’t matter. We are told that income inequality is an existential crisis (even though this is not an indicator of prosperity, some of the poorest countries in the world have low-income inequality), we are told that we are oppressed by capitalism (even though it’s brought about more freedom and wealth to the most people than any other system in world history), we are told that the only way we will acquire the benefits of true prosperity is through socialism and centralization of federal power (even though history has proven time and again this only brings tyranny and suffering).

Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country. People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they’ve never seen prosperity, and as a result, elect politicians dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism. Why? The answer is this, my generation has ONLY seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn’t live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, or see the rise and fall of socialism and communism. We don’t know what it’s like not to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don’t have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it’s spreading like a plague.

With the current political climate giving rise to the misguided idea of a socialist utopia, will we see the light? Or will we have to lose it all to realize that what we have now is true prosperity? Destroying the free market will undo what millions of people have died to achieve.

My generation is becoming the largest voting bloc in the country. We have an opportunity to continue to propel us forward with the gifts capitalism and democracy has given us. The other option is that we can fall into the trap of entitlement and relapse into restrictive socialist destitution. The choice doesn’t seem too hard, does it?

Thoughts from a hipster coffee shop… - Alpha News

To the OP:

I have an issue with what you said about the mass media of that day that was fiercely objective. We have learned that they were anything but objective.

 

[Ray9]

Boomers are the most entitled and spoiled generation of humans in history. Left to their senile devices they will try to take the country with them into death.

I find that the most amusing statement made on this forum this week.

Let me give you a glimpse into the most spoiled generation ever seen on this planet as seen through the eyes of one of their own.
#################################

I’m sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of Democratic candidates calling for policies to “fix” the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around. I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook’s, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we’ve become completely blind to it. Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose. These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don’t give them a second thought. We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty. One. Times. Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful.

Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, “An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity.”

Never saw American prosperity. Let that sink in. When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I’ve ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Now, I’m not attributing Miss Ocasio-Cortez’s words to outright dishonesty. I do think she whole-heartedly believes the words she said to be true. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided. My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let’s just say I didn’t have the popular opinion, but I digress.

Let me lay down some universal truths really quick. The United States of America has lifted more people out of abject poverty, spread more freedom and democracy, and has created more innovation in technology and medicine than any other nation in human history. Not only that but our citizenry continually breaks world records with charitable donations, the rags to riches story is not only possible in America but not uncommon, we have the strongest purchasing power on earth, and we encompass 25% of the world’s GDP. The list goes on. However, these universal truths don’t matter. We are told that income inequality is an existential crisis (even though this is not an indicator of prosperity, some of the poorest countries in the world have low-income inequality), we are told that we are oppressed by capitalism (even though it’s brought about more freedom and wealth to the most people than any other system in world history), we are told that the only way we will acquire the benefits of true prosperity is through socialism and centralization of federal power (even though history has proven time and again this only brings tyranny and suffering).

Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country. People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they’ve never seen prosperity, and as a result, elect politicians dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism. Why? The answer is this, my generation has ONLY seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn’t live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, or see the rise and fall of socialism and communism. We don’t know what it’s like not to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don’t have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it’s spreading like a plague.

With the current political climate giving rise to the misguided idea of a socialist utopia, will we see the light? Or will we have to lose it all to realize that what we have now is true prosperity? Destroying the free market will undo what millions of people have died to achieve.

My generation is becoming the largest voting bloc in the country. We have an opportunity to continue to propel us forward with the gifts capitalism and democracy has given us. The other option is that we can fall into the trap of entitlement and relapse into restrictive socialist destitution. The choice doesn’t seem too hard, does it?

Thoughts from a hipster coffee shop… - Alpha News

To the OP:

I have an issue with what you said about the mass media of that day that was fiercely objective. We have learned that they were anything but objective.

I agree about the media to a degree but they were not blatantly partisan as they are today. They don't even try to hide it now.

 

[Lesh]

I’m a Boomer. Not particularly proud of it though.

We are the most spoiled bunch of brats on the planet.

We want it all... want to leave nothing to our kids.. and tell ourselves we earned it... for doing essentially nothing.

All while bitching about millennials. Who we are screwing over and who from my experience dealing with them are far more creative than we ever were

 

[impuretrash]

Dear Boomers and Millenials,

You both suck.

Sincerely,

GenX

 

[Ray9]

Dear Boomers and Millenials,

You both suck.

Sincerely,

GenX

With your generation I keep thinking of A Tale of Two Cities-"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." Technology is advancing in leaps and bounds. Artificial Intelligence will eliminate many jobs. Colleges are de facto payday loan centers that saddle you with debt you can never repay.

My grandchildren are already working and my first greatgrandchild is due in March. I want that child to be happy and not bitter like so many today. I think things will work out because we are still free and as Anne Frank said: “In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

 

[impuretrash]

Dear Boomers and Millenials,

You both suck.

Sincerely,

GenX

With your generation I keep thinking of A Tale of Two Cities-"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." Technology is advancing in leaps and bounds. Artificial Intelligence will eliminate many jobs. Colleges are de facto payday loan centers that saddle you with debt you can never repay.

My grandchildren are already working and my first greatgrandchild is due in March. I want that child to be happy and not bitter like so many today. I think things will work out because we are still free and as Anne Frank said: “In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

That mindset is pretty common among the boomer which might explain why they took a hands off approach to securing the values and morality their parents raised them to believe in.