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

[Warpy]

78. Thank you. I've always said it was the generation born during the late 20s and 30s

who were too young to be scarred by the Depression, too young to partake in the "glory" of WWII and too old for the party in the 60s who did much of the damage to us. Drafted into a peacetime military, they had no reason to doubt any of the propaganda and voted solidly GOP and regarded Reagan as a saint when he came along. They were joined by some of the WWII generation, the younger cohort of Boomers, and the Gen Xers who were old enough to vote.

No one generation is capable of wrecking a country for the generations to come, but this coalition had a damned good try at it.

Don't forget that the oldest Boomers came of age during Vietnam and their first election was given to Nixon, a man who provided the hothouse to nurture the Reagan gang and began the great tradition of Republican racketeering under the happy name of "dirty tricks."

I'm not putting blame on whole generations here, I know too many great lefties who were born before and after the Boomers came along. However, Nixon's "silent majority" bears much of the blame, whatever generation they were born into.