I am astonished that friends and relatives that are my exact age and went to the same schools have turned into such gleeful hateful no-nothings and proud of it. How can this be? I was born in 1949.
Some people, LBJ once said, will let you do anything to them as long as you give them someone to look down on. "Hell, they'll even let you pick their pockets," he said.
I was president of SDS in Kalamazoo at the time of the first protest. What shocked me is that they called us Nazis when in fact that is exactly what we opposed. The lesson was that ignorance and reaction are the prevailing attitudes in politics as continues to be true today.
Interesting that you didnāt mention the decade of the 70ās, when all three of my Gen X kids were born.
And yeah, my daddy fought in WWII (N. Africa and Italy) as did my wifeās (Atlantic convoy escorts). And my uncle didnāt come home (B-24 navigator). š
I am astonished that friends and relatives that are my exact age and went to the same schools have turned into such gleeful hateful no-nothings and proud of it. How can this be? I was born in 1949.
Some people, LBJ once said, will let you do anything to them as long as you give them someone to look down on. "Hell, they'll even let you pick their pockets," he said.
Sputnik baby here. Iām a proud progressive liberal democrat since birth, so not all boomers are losers. š
I try not to be as well. And I'm five years older!
I was president of SDS in Kalamazoo at the time of the first protest. What shocked me is that they called us Nazis when in fact that is exactly what we opposed. The lesson was that ignorance and reaction are the prevailing attitudes in politics as continues to be true today.
Interesting that you didnāt mention the decade of the 70ās, when all three of my Gen X kids were born.
And yeah, my daddy fought in WWII (N. Africa and Italy) as did my wifeās (Atlantic convoy escorts). And my uncle didnāt come home (B-24 navigator). š