How will the "Baby Boom" generation be remembered?

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Star Member kentuck (104,379 posts)
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How will the "Baby Boom" generation be remembered?

Were they greedy a$$holes that took all the wealth? Did they think the world was their oyster?

Were they the cause of all the problems in the present world?

Or will they be remembered as the generation that gave women rights they had not had for thousands of years?

Will they be remembered for passing Civil Rights legislation and successfully promoting equality in our country?

Will they be remembered for the great technological advances, going to the moon, etc?

Baby Boomers will soon be gone. Will the "good" things they accomplished disappear and we will return to the "old" ways?

How do you think Boomers will be remembered?

 

OLDMDDEM (810 posts)

1. I think

as a Boomer born in 1947, we will be remembered as having modernized the world from dial phones to cellphones, to propeller passenger planes to jets, to many advances in science as well as providing the best Democratic presidents in our nations history.

Star Member DBoon (19,424 posts)

4. as a caricature

Their positive political and cultural changes will be erased from memory.

Richard Nixon will be given more credit for the environmental movement than the millions of college and high-school aged boomer who organized earth day. The accomplishments of this movement will be forgotten, and boomers will be blamed for not solving issues which were barely visible during the 1970s.

They will be blamed for electing Reagan when older generations were the right wing base. Their progressive politicians will be forgotten and every right wing reactionary elected since 1970 will be blamed on them.

To keep current generations apathetic, it is important to belittle the real accomplishments of prior generations

 

JT45242 (1,029 posts)

5. As ruiners of the economy and the planet

First, they had little to do with any of the positive things listed.

Civil rights... The leaders, both white and black, all born long before the boomers. The congressional sponsors, LBJ, etc. All born long before WW2.

Yes, many boomers in their youth protested against the Vietnam war.

Then they overwhelmingly voted for Reagan, Bush, Trump and all manner of crap.

They brought racism back by supporting Reagan when he opened his campaign in the heart of the KKK.

They gave tax breaks to the rich and trillions in corporate welfare and then demonized working parents paid a sub living wage who needed food stamps because the corporate welfare cheats refused to pay their workers fairly.

They benefited from the GI bill and the unions that their parents were a part of them dismantled both.

They may have marched in the late 60s but they did nothing about redlining, racial gerrymandering, or any other systemic racism issue.

They ruined our country. Plain and simple. No better example would be TDFG.

Star Member yorkster (85 posts)

19. What is percentage of reagan supporters

born before 1946, ie not boomers. You paint with a mighty wide brush.

Star Member Demsrule86 (57,100 posts)

12. The baby boomers did not **** up the 2016 election and elect Trump...most BB

worked hard for Hillary except me all the GOTV folks were BB in my 2016 group. No only that but we fought ****ing hard for Roe and that is likely gone. so spare me. No but her email crowd was mostly younger and they own this.

Sympthsical (3,295 posts)

20. Voters 50+ went for Trump

Clinton won all the demographics younger than that.

Sorry, but that's how that went.

It's usually how that goes in most Republican vs Democrat things. Older voters vote Republican.

Boomers are the older voters.

Sympthsical (3,295 posts)

50. As an older Millennial, I almost want to stop trying to explain

Look at the student loan topic. Man, those "Bootstraps!" replies, from people who had incredibly cheap and affordable access to education.

How young people got blamed for Trump. Just, what? That is completely, objectively wrong.

I mean, the demographic here is median Boomer, so I get it. But, there was some good and some bad. All generations will have it.

But looking at the last forty years that span my lifetime, things have gotten a lot worse in many ways, particularly economically. How that happened isn't some amorphous "Everyone except us did it!"

Hard to find solutions when we can't acknowledge how problems began.

Star Member MineralMan (141,890 posts)

8. They also invented the technology we're all using right now.

Yup. That was us, too. Took my first computer programming class in 1963 at college. Owned my own tiny little software company in the late 1980-90s. Was a dope-smoking hippie in the late 60s.

Participated in the Civil Rights and anti-Vietnam war movements in the 60s and 70s. Escorted women into Planned Parenthood clinics for many years.

I'm a boomer. I'm far from wealthy. I don't think I played a role in causing today's problems at all.

And here I still am.

Star Member bucolic_frolic (29,505 posts)

13. Sad to say

I think they will be remembered as a permissive, undisciplined, self-centered, entitlement generation who talked a good game but lived for themselves, for the present time, like every other generation. They fought corporate greed in their 20s and bought luxury SUVs once they reached 50. They went to DisneyWorld, took cruises, borrowed to build, buy, maintain McMansions. Only a small percentage lived according to their creed, and I suspect even they raised spoiled kids and bought too much plastic junk.

Buckeyeblue (3,963 posts)

43. As a midwest genxer I've watched the Boomers grow old

In general, they really lack emotional intelligence. They divorced quickly and probably remarried too quickly as well. They are tone deaf on racial issues. They did a poor job of managing their finances. They were a mix bag as parents. I think, more than their parents, they tried to make their children feel loved and showed more affection. Fathers were more involved with their kids. But because many families couldn't make ends meet or because of divorce, both parents worked and left their children to fend for themselves. The good part is that genxers are typically independently minded individuals. The bad news is that as a generation we aren't as empathetic as we could be.

Star Member Politicub (12,035 posts)

85. Indifferent to the country they're leaving behind after they are gone, while damning the generations

that will follow them -- their children and grandchildren -- to inherit a dead planet and a life full of misery. Boomers just don't seem to give a collective damn about anything unless it has something to do with Medicare or Social Security or hurting someone who is different from them. But to be fair, my generation (X), seems to be living up to its reputation of wallowing in apathy and nihilism, too.

I'm glad there were some visionary and amazing boomer leaders. But they're in the minority and overshadowed by the greedy mob.

[SVPete]

I think we'll be remembered as people, with all the complexity of a large population of people.

[Ralph Wiggum]

JT45242 (1,029 posts)

5. As ruiners of the economy and the planet

First, they had little to do with any of the positive things listed.

Civil rights... The leaders, both white and black, all born long before the boomers. The congressional sponsors, LBJ, etc. All born long before WW2.

Yes, many boomers in their youth protested against the Vietnam war.

Then they overwhelmingly voted for Reagan, Bush, Trump and all manner of crap.

They brought racism back by supporting Reagan when he opened his campaign in the heart of the KKK.

They gave tax breaks to the rich and trillions in corporate welfare and then demonized working parents paid a sub living wage who needed food stamps because the corporate welfare cheats refused to pay their workers fairly.

They benefited from the GI bill and the unions that their parents were a part of them dismantled both.

They may have marched in the late 60s but they did nothing about redlining, racial gerrymandering, or any other systemic racism issue.

They ruined our country. Plain and simple. No better example would be TDFG.

Wow, why don't you just off yourself already?  This is one of the more asinine and factually incorrect posts at the DUmp in a while, not including Poopy Pants Pam's and Drunken Aunt Nance's screeds.

[enslaved1]

As the saying goes, history is written by the victors.  Most of this thread appears to be the DUmp assuming they will be the victors in their culture/social/political war, and are prepping what they want written down. 

[jukin]

Poorly, very poorly.

[Drafe Hoblin]

How will the "Baby Boom" generation be remembered?

Have we vanished or something? 

We'll be known as the 'Boom Babies' if you push us to crush the Democratic Party by force.  -Or by vote if you want to do euphemisms.  We're about done with your cereal-box socialist bullshit.

The generation formerly known as the Baby Boomers.

[Ralph Wiggum]

How will the "Baby Boom" generation be remembered?

Have we vanished or something? 

We'll be known as the 'Boom Babies' if you push us to crush the Democratic Party by force.  -Or by vote if you want to do euphemisms.  We're about done with your cereal-box socialist bullshit.

The generation formerly known as the Baby Boomers.

And I'm in the generation following, the usually despised Generation X.  However the boomers and GenX are the ones who are actually working, creating companies and not pissing and moaning about cultural issues.  For the most part, as there still are lots of hippies who are still trying to stick it to the proverbial man.

Baby Boomers and GenX are great generations, as most ultimately turn out to be.  Sure, the outliers are always the exception that proves the rule.

[Rebel]

OLDMDDEM (810 posts)

1. I think

as a Boomer born in 1947, we will be remembered as having modernized the world from dial phones to cellphones, to propeller passenger planes to jets, to many advances in science as well as providing the best Democratic presidents in our nations history.

Which boomer created the time machine and ME-262? No boomer created that shit. Not even the jetliner. Dudes born in the 20's created those.

[SVPete]

Which boomer created the time machine and ME-262? No boomer created that shit. Not even the jetliner. Dudes born in the 20's created those.

The oldest boomers were toddlers or in kindergarten when the first supersonic fighter jets and the B-47s and B-52s were coming into service.

The boom of TVs coming into homes started with WW2 surplus radar CRTs. The first color TVs and transistor radios hit stores in Ike's first term. Audio cassettes hit the market before the oldest boomers hit college. Integrated circuits were a creation of the late 1950s; transistors in the mid-1940s. Transistor and IC based computers were creations of the 1950s and 1960s. Touch-tone phones hit the consumer market in the mid or late 1960s. Radio telephones, the predecessors of cell phones were a thing in the 1950s (earlier?). At most, there may have been some junior engineer boomers on the cell phone, video cassette, and CD development projects. Jobs & Woz were mid-boomers, but the 6502 microprocessor their Apple II used was developed by pre-boomers.

Jobs & Woz kind of capture reality. Every generation builds on the foundations laid by earlier generations.