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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOn MSNBC just now.. Schmidt I think said Joe Biden is the last Baby Boomer president if elected
He is the last of the Silent Generation.. The youngest boomers are 56 right now.. soooooo Joe Biden is not the last Baby Boomer president.. I for the life of me do not understand why people have that in their heads that baby boomers have one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel... and of course he was not corrected.. sigh... oh well .. waiting for the new TEAM to show up.. very excitedhlthe2b
(102,376 posts)From what I've seen, he is responsive to such comments.
Peacetrain
(22,878 posts)He is not the only one who confuses the Silent Generation and the Boomers..
hlthe2b
(102,376 posts)Glorfindel
(9,736 posts)by four months. As I understand it, the Baby Boomers were born between 1 Jan 1946 and 31 Dec 1964. Having been born in Aug 1945, I'll be the big seven-five in a couple of weeks.
Peacetrain
(22,878 posts)but yep that is the range..
tishaLA
(14,176 posts)because he believes this is a generational shift for the party with the ascension of Sen Harris. He's probably right.
jimfields33
(15,965 posts)Peacetrain
(22,878 posts)tishaLA
(14,176 posts)Peacetrain
(22,878 posts)GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)She is a Boomer.
jimfields33
(15,965 posts)Peacetrain
(22,878 posts)I can see another Boomer President. Kamala Harris would be the youngest of the Boomers.. she was born in 64
Withywindle
(9,988 posts)How is anybody born AFTER the JFK assassination a Boomer, when it's such a defining event for that generation?
Peacetrain
(22,878 posts)haele
(12,679 posts)Culturally closer to Gen X than Boomers born between '47 and '57; they experienced the beginnings of the Civil Rights era, a huge boom in technology upending the idea of a lifetime career, and the "Question Everything" movements from the ages of 4 to 8, their formative years. Like the problems facing Gen X, I can safely say, being born in 1959, that while I may have had more opportunities, I have not experienced that certainty and stability in both personal finances and work that my parents experienced, even if I managed to have a more "professional" work experience that they did. There were more living wage jobs, per capita, and cost of living was more manageable in most households where at least one person had a regular full time job.
That sort of "Boomers having a better lifestyle than their parents" started disappearing rapidly after the recession and tech booms in the mid/late 70's, just about the time those born on 1957 started entering the workforce...and our Wartime born/early Boomer parents started ragging on us for not being able to establish ourselves into a single job that allowed us to save for our futures as well as buy a house and raise kids on a single income like they or our older siblings could.
She's more of a GenX cusp than a Boomer.
Haele
GoCubsGo
(32,094 posts)I was born four days after Kennedy was inaugurated. I relate FAR more to Gen X than I do Boomers. I was in grade school when Woodstock happened. Nobody I grew up with went to Vietnam. It was over before I even got into high school. The draft was over by the time my cohorts and I turned 18. I sure as hell don't have it better than my parents did. I'm not part of that generation. I kind of resent people trying to shoe-horn me into it.
zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)Boomers used to stop at 1960. This of course is established mostly by advertising and marketing in general. It has drifted upwards in the last 10 years or so. But even 1960 was being generous. If you look at birth statistics, the real "boom" ended about 55 or so. My usual definition of a boomer is if their parents worked during WWII. My parents did and I was born in '59, I also had 5 older siblings, so culturally I was raised by, and in that generation. But I also had friends whose parents were too young to work during WWII (they were 15 or so) but by '59 they were having kids. Quite honestly, Ms. Harris is of immigrant parents and so were not raised quite as much in a generation whose parents were working in the early '40s in the US.
Politically, I suspect Harris is probably more culturally of the generation that followed, albeit one of the older of that generation.
HockeyMom
(14,337 posts)and wasn't even born during WW2. We used to be called the Post War Babies. 1946 is considered to be the start of the Boomer generation. My parents, and yours, were known as the Greatest Generation.