Dear Millennials: I'm sorry we didn't stop them

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62. Did you not notice I said progressive boomers also protested against the opposing faction...

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of the boomer generation itself? The negative perception and rancor directed towards the entire boomer generation is inaccurate and wrong as progressive boomers went on to participate in countless protests in the '80s, '90s and '00s. I myself protested in Manhattan in '03 against the Iraq war, and also journeyed to DC to do the same. And I wasn't the only boomer whose sense of justice and democracy was developed in the '60s and continues to this day, which is why I'm on DU.

I live in Vegas now and have joined protests at the Federal Building here and against trump's casino here before the pandemic. Many of us didn't forget what we stood for to become greedy yuppies.

Thank God some GenXers and Millennials joined the movement when they did.

There seems to a lot of promise among the Zoomers, especially on environmental issues...that consciouness started btw in the '60s and resulted in the nationwide "Earth Day" action in '70, the last year of that decade.