What do you think are the major pros/cons of each current generation?

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(06-04-2022, 08:33 AM)David Horn Wrote:

(06-03-2022, 10:25 PM)JasonBlack Wrote: If you thought the GIs were bad about witch hunts, millennials instituted nationwide witch hunts while comprising well under 10% of the entire Congress (something like 32 house members and 1 senator). Mark my words, when they get real institutional power, they will instigate a 1st Turning purge that will make McCarthyism look like a middle school mock trial.

While we're at it, the GIs were overrated. Like the millennials, they were also a generation of witch hunters who believed in using the state to enforce autocratic social controls on people (even if there's had a more masculine polarity and were less whingy). I admire their stoic dignity and pragmatic builder mentality, but....y'all boomers rebelled for a reason.

Edit: come to think of it, I don't think I've ever heard a single boomer go into detail about their childhood. It's like trying to ask a combat vet about Vietnam or WWII. They kinda just brush it off like "oh yeah, that...", as if they weren't even born yet until the 2T.

I’m not sure what you’re thinking here. The witch hunting GIs were all on the right: McCarthy, Welch, and the rest of the Birchers, among many others.  Think of Donald Trump’s ideal lawyer: Roy Cohn.  What do you see today that’s even slightly similar?  I see a lot of tail-end Boomers and Xers forming “militias”, but where are the dreaded Millennials?

It may just not be time for them yet. The McCarthy witch hunts didn't take place until we were about halfway through that saeculum's 1T.

If the current crisis produces enough of a backlash to undo the extreme corporate power of the past four decades, then during the coming 1T those who want to return us to the "bad old days" of extreme corporate dominance, then those folks may up being to this 1T what Communists and their sympathizers were to the last one. Then it would be in effect the opposite of what the last series of witch hunts were, thus being instigated by the left rather than the right. Under the current paradigm I would put the possibility of it as possible but definitely not probable.

Have you noticed that coming of age Millennials were not either the hotheads nor the party goes that Boomers tended to be at like age?