07-29-2016, 03:29 AM
Boomers probably became the dominant generation in American political life in the early 1990s. The generational constellation in 1992 (middle of a 3T) for adults looked like this, and I will use film and music stars instead of politicians as examples:
Lost (Reactive) 92+ ... George Burns, Helen Hayes
GI (Civic) 68-91 .... Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Hepburn
Silent (Adaptive) 50-67 ... Joan Rivers, Bob Dylan
Boom (Idealist) 32-49 .... Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks
X (Reactive) 11-31 .... Molly Ringwald, Cuba Gooding
GIs were the most powerful generation in American politics from the 1950s to the 1980s, The Silent may have been the weakest generation in American politics.
Lost (Reactive) 92+ ... George Burns, Helen Hayes
GI (Civic) 68-91 .... Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Hepburn
Silent (Adaptive) 50-67 ... Joan Rivers, Bob Dylan
Boom (Idealist) 32-49 .... Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks
X (Reactive) 11-31 .... Molly Ringwald, Cuba Gooding
GIs were the most powerful generation in American politics from the 1950s to the 1980s, The Silent may have been the weakest generation in American politics.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.