did well for themselves, voted for Ronnie Raygun and his debt bubbles, build massive McMansions, and are now going to leave the kids with the bill.

I knew of several GI's who said they regret giving their children an easy life.
They got spoiled.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/may/17/generation-sociopaths-review-trump-baby-boomers-ruined-world

blew into a full blown anxiety attack. I'll be 70 the end of November. We are about to spend our first winter in North Myrtle Beach, SC. with a side trip to Venice, FL where my neice lives. I'm scared. Maybe they'll turn me into a Republican. My neice is a good Dem, we went to the DC Women's March together.

Going to read the second. Hoping to find calm. Getting out the Indica.

Plenty of Democrats there and when strolling in the warm winter weather no one will be talking politics.

I figure, if my niece lives there it's got to be ok.

As a late boomer I will say that this generation are largely center to far right.
They are quite conservative in their thinking.
But, one thing about boomers, they make terrible politicians and leaders. Since we took over politics has been at its worst and our politicians are about as corrupt as in the gilded age.

Do I feel better? not much, but I have a devil on my shoulder too saying, the nursing home fate is too good for these trumpers who think things are so bad in America while they enjoy Medicare, Social Security and other benefits republicans would gleefully take away from them.

No, they'll never get me, but I'm so ashamed of my generation. I had such high hopes for us.

will start reading more of the Tampa Bay Times.

the only thing they dont like about it is being surrounded by trumpkins.

and were fighting all along since 1980, but this article got me sick. The absence of 'well the millennial and xers ruined everything" that is common gave me hope.

Those born in the late 40s through the 50s and grew up in the 60s were either the love children, freedom, down with the establishment, super liberal, socialist, live in the woods and off the land, pro aboriginals, haters of posessions type... or they were strong supporters of the US who were ready to go to Vietnam and who became disillusioned with what it all turned out to be. Of course there were the in-betweens who just watched it all happen.
Then came the 70s where Americans started becoming lazy through new wealth and divided by extremes in politics as well as an emerging knowledge of the world with its fears and smashed expectations.
Then came the 80s where they found the power of greed and the hypnotic effect of ignorance. At which point they became gullible to the rising wealthy as well as the religion of prosperity. The powerful preyed on greed and religion played on the guilt of a free and loose past.
The 90s were a consolidation of the previous decades and the culmination of libertarian conservative patience and accumulated power that began in the 40s and 50s.
The new Millennium? Well here we are. You can make your own observation and conclusions about what the boomers were and why we are where we are.

Fox news, Rush Limbaugh, Alex Jones, etc, etc, etc.

I do live in Northern California, though.

and I mean that as someone who thinks California may have to wind up seceding just to avoid the crap that is happening in the rest of America. I will NOT blame you if you do

I and most of my cohort are very liberal.

And I still can't make sense of this sentence: Long story short, the article claims that whatever democratic trends in Florida may happen, the state is gain abundant supply of politically active Republicans from other states.

". . . is gain abundant supply . . ." Help me out here.

Anyway, as a boomer I really, REALLY get tired of my generation being blamed for all the current ills of this country.

I'll just offer this. I used to read old Life Magazine, starting with the first issue (which I'm sure you all know) was in November, 1936. I read them sequentially, made it through March of 1945, and it's quite obvious the war in Europe is almost over and that the war in the Pacific will last another year, maybe two. I wonder how it all came out. (Actually, I know, but having read the magazine, it's as if I remember the events up to that point and have been put into a holding bin of some kind.)

Here's what I want to point out. All during the war there was a lot of enforced saving, because there were many consumer goods that simply were no longer available, such as cars or sheets, and of course a strong encouragement to buy war bonds. By late 1944 the war bonds were beginning to be cashed in. There was an enormous pent-up demand for consumer items, and I could tell that just by reading those Life Magazines. It was incredibly obvious that as the war was winding down (and by early or mid 1944 Life ran a serious article about the upcoming problems in re-integrating returning soldiers back into civilian life and jobs) that there was a lot of money out there that was eager to be spent.

And even though I didn't get past March, 1945, I could tell that the adult generation, the so-called "Greatest Generation" was going to fling itself head over heels in spending. And they did. They bought homes. They bought cars. They had babies and bought everything that babies needed. The set an example of spending and consumerism that their children, the Baby Boomers, get vilified for.

Quite frankly, the Greatest Generation wasn't. Certainly not the greatest. Yes, they endured the Great Depression and a terrible World War, but they were like any other generation. There were heroes and villains. They looked out for themselves as people always do.

I will add this. If you don't have the time or access to old Life Magazines to read nearly ten years' worth of issues (and I spent about four years doing that), then please read the book Generations by William Strauss and Neill Howe. It is totally amazing. I recommend it over and over, and am still to come across anyone else who has ever read it.

It means that thanks to current trend, for everyone who votes liberal, two more conservatives will move to Florida and vote. Florida is the new Kansas; the way the Confederates tried to move there to ensure Kansas was a slave state, so are the GOP moving to Florida and taking it over, to where are becoming to the right of Mississippi and Texas.

Somehow I missed out on Reagan Lovin' Prosperity. We're not all like that.

Nam Conflict to go die in?

It only stands to reason for the LARGEST GENERATION to comprise a myriad of political opinions.

I'll stand with my fellow 49'ers, such as Dr. Howard Dean.

BTW: Hillary is a Baby Boomer, born in 1947. J/S.

These folk described in the article do have a voice in what the 60's generation was too. Like I said, I know there are some that never stopped fighting the good fight, but plenty of them did. Allow me to add that as bad as Vietnam truly was, Boomer leadership has allowed a whole generation to NEVER know what it was like for America NOT to be at war. There are soldiers in the field today who will die before they saw the nation at peace for a year.

1961 (he's barely a "Korean Conflict baby" ), speaking of continuing wars.

To re-make my point: the Boomer Generation is not a monolith.

P. S. And you also ignore the fact that, from the 1950s Korea to the 60s and 70s Vietnam (not to mention the real scare of the Cuban Missile Crisis or the threat of getting shot on campus), my g-g-generation, who had classroom drills for atomic-bomb attacks, who watched a real murder on television (Lee Harvey Oswald's), whose heroes were slain, were never truly "at peace".

Well, at least we can't be blamed for the Civil War, the Great Depression, or the two World Wars.

Or you zipped past the point where I said if you are reading this, even as a centrist, you are to the left of people I am railing against. But whatever, hope this helps come 2018 and 2020.

Turning the state blue, yay!

For all the reasons people give for why they relocated there, you have to suspect that a good portion of
those people are racists and they LOVED the idea of a 98% white (MAGA) community.

thank you for pointing that out. Note how the one African American in the article makes a point not to hang out there too much. It sure does not help that this area is barely an hour from George Zimmerman.