03-06-2018, 02:22 PM
(03-06-2018, 01:48 PM)Cynic Hero Wrote: Boomers currently Run the countries of the west. Therefore the responsibility to Maintaining the basic necessities of government, economy and security, rests on the baby boomer generation. It's not currently the younger generations Job to Maintain society at the moment, because the boomers are the ones currently occupying the positions that influences the maintenance of society. At the moment boomers, Maintaining society is YOUR Job. Boomers can Make so that is the Job of Xers and Millies by stepping down and allowing the young to occupy the positions of governance, when that happens the the job of governance would rest with Xers and Millies since they would be occupying the position of responsibility. However until then and until that occurs, it is Boomers who currently Have the responsibility of governing and maintain the security and well being of the west because boomers are the ones currently controlling the government.
Boomers are at or near their peak in numerical control of Congress and State Governorships -- and I see them approaching the decline in such numbers. Boomers are approaching their last act in American politics because they are now getting old enough to start retiring or dying off in large numbers. The oldest Boomers are turning 75 this year, and the youngest turn 58. Political careers rarely begin in people's late 50s, and many end in the early-to-middle 70s. So it has been with the Silent and GIs.
Boomers are not a political monolith, and the rigid ideology of Donald Trump is only one side of the political spectrum -- and a side that could easily end up in the minority as the Millennial Generation starts entering high political offices. So it was with GIs, the Silent, Boomers, and X -- we will start seeing them in significant numbers in Congress as older politicians retire or become irrelevant. That will be enough to undo the marginal advantage of Rightist politicians in America. The Millennial Generation leans undeniably to the Left as voters.
What applies to Boomers in America will also apply elsewhere in the world, even in countries that have a sympathetic regard for age and have long life expectancies. Thus all democratic countries in Europe, southern South America, Israel, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. In countries with somewhat younger populations, like India and most of Latin America, you can expect the age wave to shift legislatures and executive positions to younger and likely more li9beral electorates if they have not done so yet. (Most African and Middle-Eastern countries are not in line with the generational cycle of the USA, western Europe, India, and the Far East).
Yes, experience and connections matter, and some Boomers will still be elected and will fill upper political posts -- but people not Boomers will decide which ones get to the highest positions. Just because Sir Winston Churchill and Karl Mannerheim were in their 70s when leading their countries through the supremely-dangerous Crisis of 1940 and FDR was in poor enough health that he might as well have been in his 70s not mean that their countries' Congresses and Parliaments were full of old people. Churchill, Mannerheim, and FDR were perfectly suited for their dangerous times. See also Frederick the Great, Garibaldi, Lincoln, Bismarck, and Juarez in their times.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.
