Generational Dynamics World View

[Warren Dew]

(08-24-2017, 09:20 AM)Cynic Hero Wrote: The events of WW1 and WW2 made america into the premier great power in the world. However the political system and constitutional framework of our country dates from the 18th Century when we were a small frontier nation that did everything possible to keep imperial great powers away. The world wars however made america into an imperial power, in direct contradiction to the assumptions of constitutional framework. The WW2 generations tackled this and kicked this can down the road by having the defense commitments of an imperial great power but keeping the benign policies of a constitutional republic. The Selfishness of the boomer is due to their extreme desire to base america and the "american spirit" on the now outdated constitutional framework and the boomer assumption that imperial america is the outlier. Xers and Millies however want to continue the evolution of America into a real imperial power and into a real empire, which IS the logical conclusion of the world wars and the cold war and their effects on the evolution of our country. The extreme selfishness of the boomer is traced directly to the boomers desire to reestablish the old republican framework that existed before 1900. The boomer refuse to allow anyone younger than them to be at the helm because they know the younger generations support completing the conversion of America into an empire. This is in direct contradiction of the boomers love-affair with republics and their ideals of having a world without imperial nations.

There's nothing contradictory between our Constitutional framework and an American empire.  The Constitution only protects American citizens and, to a lesser extent, residents; that's in no way inconsistent with a maritime or overseas empire.  Britain had a constitutional government at home while ruling colonies overseas; why would an American empire need to do anything different?

I would agree that Presidents Clinton and, especially, Obama, and even Bush to some extent, seemed to want to extend privileges similar to those guaranteed in the constitution to the whole world.  Nothing in the Constitution requires that, though, and I think Trump, also a Boomer, recognizes that.  What more do you want?

(08-24-2017, 08:49 PM)Cynic Hero Wrote:

(08-24-2017, 08:03 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote:

(08-24-2017, 07:54 PM)Cynic Hero Wrote: >   First of all what does Hillary Clinton, the personification of the
>   boomer establishment have to do with Xers and Millies opposition
>   to the boomer establishment.  

Because the Xers and Millies favored her over Trump.

One Boomer in a million may shout a bit.
Now and then, there's one with slight defects.
One perhaps whose truthfulness you doubt a bit,
But by and large we are a marvelous generation!

The Boomers imposed tyranny upon Xers and Millies and tyranny onto america in general. Look at the efficiency of Countries like China, and Russia, as well as other countries such as Vietnam, Iran, Turkey, even North Korea. These as well as historical examples such as the USSR, Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, Maoist China, Imperial Germany, Napoleonic France as well as earlier examples such as the mongol empire, the Roman empire, The holy Roman empire, the original Caliphate, England From William The Conqueror to the glorious revolution I. Examples such as these are studied often by xers and Millies in their spare time. The boomer on the other hand subjected the young to tyranny by stunting their political development by forcing globalistic ideology derived from Pitt and Churchill and formulated by the likes of Christopher Hitchens and then the boomer rammed this decadence down the young's throats. That is why the young refers to the boomer as selfish, the boomer is such by suppressing the younger generations particular generational character. The Boomer then attempts to influence politics in such a way that when the next major international breakdown occurs which constitutes the crisis era and crisis war occurs; that it would be based around defending the boomers Churchillian doctrines. The Xer and Millie has no interest in Burke/Churchill values and admire that polities that I've outlined earlier in this paragraph.

The American system through the 1980s was much more efficient than the examples you mention; that is, after all, why we won the Cold War and Russia's Soviet empire did not.  A socialist economic system likewise relegated China to being an also ran.

I'll grant that was largely due to a Civic President - Reagan - and not to a Boomer.  But I'll also point out that was after a series of Civic Presidents, from Kennedy through Carter, had frittered away most of the advantages we had coming out of WWII.  Boomers have not done worse than that.