Baby boomers Ruined America: Why Blaming Millennials is Misguided — and Annoying

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76. All generation bashing is ugly

We all got handed a world that was fucked up by the last generation and we all were stymied from making things better by those preceding generations.

Except that boomers are the ones who blew the lid off institutionalized racism, sexism, homophobia, and other "isms" that were keeping too many people from a share in the American dream. We did manage to do this.

That a cabal of greedy men bought the government and the media and were able to destroy the New Deal protections was not our fault. There is little way to fight that kind of money when you have no access to media, and that kind of money thought decent wages = inflation.

That has changed with the coming of the net. Progressives were completely drowned out by wingnuts just 20 years ago. However, we've been damned good at getting a lot of the message out to fence sitters and apolitical people, especially those too young to remember just what the New Deal had done for us: given us the best deal working people ever had.

The evolution has been painfully slow but it's happening.