09-04-2018, 12:47 PM
(06-06-2018, 03:57 PM)tg63 Wrote: From where I sit, red boomers do remain "true to the ideals in which they came of age"; they're just different ideals from the ones that resonated with you & your peers.
Yes, but the ones which the red boomers resonated to were never anything but status quo and reactionary "ideals." They supported the war and false patriotism, the traditional family roles, racial segregation, domination of society by economic elites in the name of free enterprise, gun "rights," etc. These "ideals" of the red side remain, and are being trumpeted by Trump, but they are not prophetic; they are backward. They are not the ideals of which a fourth turning mission and first turning resolution are made. They are not the side of a Lincoln. The red boomer side is confederate, tory, fascist, the FDR haters, etc.