It seems like there's a lot of dislike and contempt for "boomers" from "millennials"

[thucythucy]

225. My problem is you don't actually answer

the questions posed to you, or engage in actual discussion. Rather, you just post the same generalizations again and again, as in "It took 100 years to build the labor movement...."

Dividing progressives along generational lines serves no one except the powers that be. I've asked you again and again what your plan is, even an outline for what could have been done, and what you think should be done now, and all I get is the same one or two sentence zingers. Evidently, though you're willing to post repeatedly on the topic, you haven't put very much thought into what the alternatives might have been.

Take a look at post 199 in this thread, a post no one has as yet seen fit to question. Short version: for very many women, GLBTs, people of color, people with disabilities, the last forty years have seen some significant gains. On the issue of sexual harassment alone there has been real progress. Many men used to take it for granted that they could abuse women in the workplace, professors at colleges were known for basing their grades on the sort of "compensation" the young women in their classes were willing to provide. I know an older woman who, in college, was told flat out by her professor, "I hate women, so I advise you drop this (required) course. I don't think women should be in this field, and I'll give you an F just for wasting my time." This was perfectly legal at the time--she had no recourse, whatsoever. Today a professor like that would most likely lose his job. Just one example of how things have changed for the better.

This isn't to minimize the enormous problems we all face today, which includes Boomers who have contributed trillions in tax dollars to Social Security--which would have been solvent forever under Boomer Al Gore's "lockbox" plan--who now are threatened with having it all taken away as part of the Republican plan to pit one generation against another, just as they pit working class whites against blacks, straights against gays, able-bodied against people with disabilities, etc. A meme you've bought into entirely, and a plan in which you are serving their interests quite nicely, judging from your posts here.

You keep saying it's up to you "to rebuild" the labor movement. So then, you're a union organizer, yes? And so we'd like to hear your wisdom on how to jumpstart the movement, something beyond sulking and flamebaiting.

So have at it. Let's hear your plan. You obviously have time to vent your spleen in this thread, so you must therefore have had some time to think about what YOU will do, what you want others to do. You have youth and anger, but do you have a PLAN?

Go for it. We await the unfolding of your political brilliance.