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In reply to the discussion: It seems like there's a lot of dislike and contempt for "boomers" from "millennials" [View all]thucythucy
(8,039 posts)through more than a century of struggle, during which hundreds of activists, at the very least, were brutally killed. It ain't easy, changing the world.
BTW, you do know that many unions during the sixties actually supported the war in Vietnam, and racial segregation, and sexist exclusion of women from the workforce, right? That in some cases union leadership, like the Teabaggers today, actually aligned with the powers that be to support the status quo?
Again, blaming an entire generation for the lapsed economy of the past three to four decades is simplistic in the extreme. But if it's what you need to do to explain your current situation, go right ahead.
Just don't expect to be very successful as a social/political activist. Along those lines, I notice you offered no plan of your own on how the changes you said were possible could have been done.
Could it be it's because, when push comes to shove, you don't have one?
IMHO, the closest we as a society came to stopping and reversing the reaction that started in the late sixties was with the candidacy of Bobby Kennedy. Who was assassinated. By the time progressives recovered from that brutal fact, Nixon was in the White House, stacking the Supreme Court with reactionaries, and his FBI was busy trying to dismantle every organization connected to positive social change--from the Black Panthers to the Mobilization to End the War to the Farm Workers Union to SNCC to the Poor Peoples' Campaign.
Again, what is your amazing plan for how it could have been stopped? What would YOU have done, in a similar situation?
Inter-generational whining and blame-throwing plays right into the hands of the political/economic reactionaries. But, again, if that's what you need to do to feel in some control of things, go for it.
Just don't expect everyone to agree.