The boomers gave us the civil rights act, the beginnings of equal protection for women and LGBT people and much more. But that was when THEY were young. Now they are old and threatened by the youth, by change and by new ideas. Of course, not all of them, but their legacy is not just a broken climate, refusal to change with the times and a startling resurgence of populism, nationalism and racism, its that and much of the positive progress too. But the millennials have seen the numbers. They look at the numbers and see that the boomers are making decisions for them that they will never be around to correct or appreciate how wrong they were. Climate is the biggest one.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

gen x. parents are boomers, children are millennials

hippie days long forgotten