| Virulent anti-Zionist, but he is probably right about the demography. I don’t think he is right about my generation’s hatred of Israel — just because we don’t argue with him to his face does not mean we agree. |
[OhioBarbarianSubstack] The academic, statistical categorization of the generation of Baby Boomers, which is typically defined as those Americans born between 1945 and 1962, ending when the post-World War II birth rate leveled off, paints us all with the same brush, but the material worlds in which we came of age were very different indeed, and so are we.
| Our group of Cuspers (those between the major cohorts, in this case Boomers and GenX) has a number of names — Generation Jones, Tweeners, Baby X's, and Boomerex. We are definitely very different than the earlier Boomer cohort. |
The dividing line begins in October 1973, and the ultimate cause is Israel. That month, the apartheid state
| …scare quotes forgotten in the midst of spittle spewing about the Israel he imagines instead of the real one … |
was attacked by the combined forces of Egypt and Syria, and OPEC imposed an oil embargo on the Western countries which supported Israel.
Gasoline prices in the US immediately tripled, the world was plunged into recession, and the economic era of stagflation—a combination of inflation AND recession—began and continued well into the 1980s.
Those of us who came of age in 1974 or later faced a very different economy and job prospects than our slightly older siblings and cousins did. They are the generation for whom Happy Days was written. They are the generation who came of age slightly before or during the Vietnam War. They are the generation who identified with Platoon and Apocalypse Now.
The movie which best represents my generation’s perspective on graduating high school is none of those, but Dazed and Confused is damned near perfect.
| I don’t remember it, having been still at the Disney cartoons stage, but Mr. Wife says it was one of those dumb comedies so popular at the time. |
I’m of the generation that came of age after the October 1973 war. I never had to worry about being drafted because Nixon stopped that in 1970 after Jackson and Kent States, but things cost more and more, wages did not keep up with inflation, and jobs were more difficult to come by and to keep.
| All true. Life isn’t fair. |
In short, those of us born from 1956 through 1962 tend to lead very different, and less prosperous, lives than the older Boomers. It is only natural that our political beliefs would be different, and they are.
We saw some of the lies clearly when we were younger, when we first encountered some kind of difficulty during those times when our older cousins were already set, safe, and secure. We tend to be less trustful of authority, any kind of authority, and are more suspicious of advertising.
Guess you missed the 1972 Olympics and Fast Times.
| They may be more distrustful of authority and advertising, but the writer, at least, firmly believes the anti-Israel propaganda he sees on social media and the New York Times. |
Unsurprisingly, the traditional pollsters found that we were generally more “liberal” or “leftist,” and less likely to identify with either of the two government parties. In 2021, this started to be reflected in the polls, and now it’s obvious.
Most Americans 65 and older now have a more favorable view of Palestinians than we do Israel, and it isn’t because all of us changed our minds. Probably 40% us were already there. What changed?
The older Boomers died, that’s what changed. In 2021, when people born in 1956 turned 65 and were counted as “65 and older” for the first time, the Covid pandemic hit, and it just decimated the older Boomers.
I’m not going to go into my Plandemic rant here; I think we can all agree that a lot of them died during that time no matter the cause, and I will argue that this changed American politics forever.
This is also why the desperate Zionist attempts to monopolize traditional media are failing, and failing miserably: Most of their audience is dead.
You stupid, capitalist, More Profits Soonest Regardless motherfuckers deliberately killed off your most loyal demographic of voters in the United States, and parts of Europe as well!
| Leaving the gullible and stupid behind — that’s your argument? Interesting. |
In a way, the genocidal apartheid State of Israel has adversely affected our lives for 53 years now. Most of us are sick and tired of being sick and tired of those bloodsuckers and their obnoxious, liberty-hating backers dictating American government policy and stealing our hard-earned wealth to finance their atavistic Greater Israel Project at the expense of our own children!
| There, there dear. You sit quietly on the chaise while I fetch you a nice cup of chamomile tea and some cookies, and then you can binge watch the Netflix until your heart slows back to normal. I promise you can write in Bernie Sanders for every position on your midterms ballot in November, and I won’t mention the Orange Man even once in your hearing, ok? |
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| Many veterans come out much smarter than they went in. Others… don’t. Deacon Blues has talked about an Iraq War II veteran of his acquaintance who converted to Islam as a result, demonstrating that he, too, was a Don’t. |
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