Book: Are Baby Boomers A ‘Generation Of Sociopaths’?

[JasonBlack]

(07-19-2022, 03:55 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: I don't know if we quite did that. It is still up to us Boomers to lead. 
It's true not enough blue boomers have stepped forward to lead who can actually win, and no blue Gen Xers have. Is that because they are tired, or just too cynical about politics? Although Jones Boomers started out as conservative, they became more evenly divided later. From that group there are politicians who can win, but they haven't stepped forward either. So we are stuck with the Silent/Boomer cuspers who are still leading us. And we may have to settle for them.
Maybe it's that Uranus-Neptune trine they were born with. They were always the leaders of our "sixties generation"

We Boomers not necessarily tired. We can lead, even if not as top political leaders. We can't fix it alone though, because we are too divided. We especially need the millennials to be truly civic and thus participate and be liberal, and help lead too.

I'm less concerned with which side millennials choose, and more concerned that they implement better real-world policy. Liberals are characterized as communist and riotous, conservatives as Social Darwinist and racist, but honestly, I don't see the majority of Americans fit any of these characteristics. When we get past the bombastic characterizations of the other side, most Americans want some form of low racism, high personal freedom, some level of environmental responsibility and better functioning institutions. Imo, the main sticking point will be whether or not we can cooperate to make some common sense policy aiming to fix the many problems we all agree need to be fixed.

As to the last point, I think boomers can be forgiven for being a little tired. We expected Silents to be tired in the previous unraveling, GIs to be tired during the last Awakening and Lost to be tired during the last High. They still need to lead, but imo, we should be expecting them to fill the role of Nestor rather than Odysseus (unfortunately, some have chosen to go straight up Agamemnon).