01-03-2017, 10:18 AM
(01-03-2017, 10:04 AM)flbones too Wrote: The thing about those memes is that they're actually so accurate.
Yes, the boomers took advantage of a favorable environment. I strongly suspect that if members of other generations had the same opportunities available, they would have taken advantage of them too. Should we be blamed for being born into the tail end of America's greatness?
The problem is a profound disagreement on how to restore that environment or invent something new that might approximate it somehow. Do we double down on the unravelling borrow and spend trickle down, somehow expecting that continuing unravelling policies will end the unravelling? Do we return to some variant of the New Deal crisis values, working together for the common good?
All generations are divided in different ways on this question. Boomers tend towards idealism, and will express themselves in a certain way. Xers might be more pragmatic and edgy, disgusted by the ideals, and express their opinion in different ways. They are still divided.
The problem is red and blue, not generational.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.