Generational Dynamics World View

[Galen]

(12-29-2017, 02:28 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote:

(12-28-2017, 11:00 PM)Galen Wrote: >   He is basically asking the right questions.  As much as it pains
>   me to say this, the Boomers are still, more or less running
>   things, which I am definitely unhappy about.  It looks like the
>   Boomers are beginning to lose their death grip on American
>   politics but not soon enough to prevent the US from doing anything
>   really stupid.

The two of you are making the same mistake, confusing politics with
reality.

A fortiori (using an impressive Latin phrase), you're
completely confusing Boomers with Republicans.  You both hate Boomers,
and you both hate Republicans.  Therefore, in your highly emotional,
illogical minds, desperately grabbing for some simple explanation for
what's going on in a complex world, you reach the totally erroneous
conclusion that Boomers and Republicans are the same.

Actually, I don't equate the Boomers particularly with any political party since they both tend to be self-righteous and self-absorbed even if it expresses itself differently in some cases.  In the case of the Dims they tend to believe that government through the welfare state can cure every social ill and create the Utopia that they desire.  The Republicans have tended to take a rather more punitive approach with government, such as but not limited to the War on Drugs, in an effort to create a perfect society.  While the methods and goals differ they do share this irrational and unshakable faith in the power of the state.

The Boomers do tend to agree on getting every blood soaked dime they can get out of the current and future unborn generations through debt to pay for current spending and to cover the retirement they desire but didn't save for.  After 9/11 they also started to agree that gratuitously bombing the shit out of third world countries, particularly middle eastern ones, was a really great idea.