10-15-2019, 03:40 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-15-2019, 03:40 PM by Eric the Green.)
Boomers have long been a divided generation. Divided between liberal and conservative, dove and hawk, and hip or straight. They are also divided by cohort. The oldest Boomers featured a lot of bold idealists and culture creators, but as a whole they lean moderately conservative, having grown up under Ike. Core boomers who grew up under JFK, LBJ and Nixon lean left, while late boomers who grew up during and after Watergate and under Carter lean right.
Today boomers are also divided between those who long for the good old days of their youth when society was white and straight-male-dominated and when heavy industry provided jobs in the Rust Belt, and those who long for the good old days of their youth when ideals were inspiring and we gave each other the peace symbol, smoked joints together and loved planet Earth. But sometimes we boomers like the same old music that appeals to both sides of this divide. But at least we blue idealist boomers can also look to the future, because that's where our ideals would still lead us.
Today boomers are also divided between those who long for the good old days of their youth when society was white and straight-male-dominated and when heavy industry provided jobs in the Rust Belt, and those who long for the good old days of their youth when ideals were inspiring and we gave each other the peace symbol, smoked joints together and loved planet Earth. But sometimes we boomers like the same old music that appeals to both sides of this divide. But at least we blue idealist boomers can also look to the future, because that's where our ideals would still lead us.
