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In reply to the discussion: No Boomer Generation president (kind of sarcasm) [View all]harumph
(3,075 posts)NO. People are people and it's not as if generation X Y Z are generally more enlightened. Boomers and silent gens rode the post war expansion of the US economy and where money is a 'flowin, there's greed a 'growin. The youngest boomers, gen x and miilenials have endured several recessions and the transformation of our economy from a manufacturing base to services based one that generally pay lower wages. Any "wisdom" attributed to younger generations is attributable to the economic reality of their respective young adulthoods. The whole 'boomers fucked everything' has become some kind of lazy shorthand that relieves its adherents of the responsibility to think more deeply about why we're in the present situation.
Donald Trump isn't the 'ultimate boomer' whatever the hell that means - any more than Obama was the ultimate boomer.