(01-14-2018, 11:34 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: But -- in 2008 the President that we elect is clearly not of the Generation of '68.That gen is born roughly over 1947-1962, Obama is in it, Clinton, Bush and Trump all were born in 1946, close enough.
Quote:The younger Bush seems to be little influenced by the culture of the 1960sYes he was (and so was Trump). The zeitgeist formed paradigms on both the Left and the Right. The paradigm isn't an ideology, it is was worldview as affected by living through a particular period of time. A conservative will learn very different lessons than a liberal, but both are affected by the times.
Quote:Barack Obama has his virtues, but he is no Boomer.According the model he is. The model produces political generations, which are similar to, but not exactly the same as S&H generation. For example the Revolutionary generation had their political moment when they came to power, but it was no social moment. Yet the dominant generation that moment created, when they came to power created the Age of Jackson, which was a social moment.