Saying I probably only had to pay a few thousand a year tuition for my college. I replied that was true, but I had to pay many thousands for HIS. He kind of forgot that part.

Each generation has its own challenges...some rise up and accept and beat the challenges, some do not. I guess every generation has its ups and downs. Take care.

and designed to create riffs and separation.

F' them and this article.

Generational bigotry is as ignorant and ugly as any other bigotry. Everything I ever did to promote social progress was resisted and blocked by conservatives. Don't fix the blame on Boomers when it all belongs on Conservatives, unless you want to replicate the mistakes and failures of the past.
But what do I know, I'm part of the generation that 'ruined everything'. Whatever that was..

I grow weary of the generational bigotry here and on other sites I frequent. Doesn't help one tiny bit and pisses me off totally!

and their offspring.

Bullshit.

it continuing by as much as three years. Many who fought in the war fought against it when they came back.

“Boomers” fought against the war on college campuses across the nation; four students died and nine were wounded during a mass protest against the escalation of the war, US military bombing Cambodia, at Kent State in the May Day Massacre.

“Boomers” white and black joined the black-led civil rights movement; “Boomers” helped register voters across the South, sometimes at peril to their lives.

“Boomers” brought us the women’s liberation movement.
“Boomers” brought us the gay rights movement.
“Boomers” launched the environmental movement.

“Each [movement], to varying degrees, changed government policy and, perhaps more importantly changed how almost every American lives today.”

http://www.lessonsite.com/ArchivePages/HistoryOfTheWorld/Lesson31/Protests60s.htm

I am a proud boomer who has fought for all these causes all my life and I am so sick of this nonsensical and pointless trashing.

I had my limping, Hungarian ass in the streets trying to end the criminal lunacy of the Right Wing: the holdovers from the McCarthy Era, the Viet Nam War, the galloping fascism of Reagan and his heirs. Got beaten up by cops in Chicago during the '68 Democratic convention.
I was there for Civil Rights and the ERA.
When Malcolm X and Martin Luther King were murdered, I was in the streets.

You like your technology, younger generations? Would you like to go back to a world without it?

"And it was stuck to the WALL!"

in the boomer generation, and there are some I could live without.

We have had to adapt to a changing culture far more than you realize.

But we have contributed quite a bit. My husband and I are still activists. We raised solid Democrats. They learned their activism and sense of civic responsibility from us.

Many members of the younger generations cannot even be bothered with voting.

http://www.boomerslife.org/boomers_social_leaders_actors_musicians_list.htm

In fact, I would say I am no more responsible for this shit than YOU are for our Pussy-Grabbing Pig in Chief.

As others have already written more than once, generational bigotry is no more attractive than it is with race, age, sex, sexual orientation, etc, etc, etc.

the writer makes some points but it is disappointing she blames so many people

Especially the ones who were ahead of their time and did not waiver to the right for one instance.

I remember seeing a lot of similar articles like this too. It's good to explain that it's not the entire generation's fault too I mean they are a factor but not a cause. Generation X had not seen this coming and they were powerless to stop something like this. Collective ideas and values matter and there will be a power-shift eventually. It's just that we have to take care of every generation and the boomers are a huge population. We are a lot like Japan in this way with different problems.

I am a boomer who worked in the Anti War and Civil Rights Movement and has been a Human Rights Advocate my whole life. I suggest that younger generations vote for a start and keep going out in the streets even if you don’t get what you want right away. The greatest tragedy of my life has been that our 1960’s Revolution did not succeed. I will never get over this heartbreak. Articles like this are meant to divide. I am so joyous about the leftward move of younger people More power to it!!! It is the entitled conservatives and fascists who are the real problem.

... thanks to Ronald Reagan and the Repukes who came after him. It's the Repukes who gamed the system for their families, not the boomers. Look at how Fred Trump set his son Donald up for life - and that's how the one-per-centers fixed the system for their kids. But that's only a very small percentage of the Baby Boomer generation.

Most of us were screwed from the beginning. Our whole lives we've had to deal with too much competition from the huge numbers of us. There weren't enough schools for us, not enough jobs for us, not enough affordable housing for us, and pretty soon there won't be enough cemeteries for us.

Especially for those who were in the later years of the boomer generation. Heck in second grade I can remember my teachers talking about how there wouldn't be enough for us. Sometimes it was ok, but mostly, good jobs were hard to come by.

I attended were Boomers like me.

We have a long history of working for social change.

Everyone at DU had great responses to this article. As some mention, the article wrongly lumps all baby boomers together. I thought that you might enjoy one of the two responses to the article from the Atlantic's web site:

https://www.theatlantic.com/letters/archive/2019/07/boomers-are-not-blame-letters/592930/

"Lyman Stone misses entirely that plenty of Boomers are also have-nots in the woeful picture he paints, and many have battled and continue to battle the policies he laments. He also fails to note that many Boomers, like me, continue to help our Gen X, Y, and Z and Millennial kids in many ways. We pay off their college loans, keep their cellphones on our family plans, pay their car insurance, pick up unexpected car-repair and other bills, and provide money for vacations. Many of us do this while we’re also providing support for our Greatest Generation parents. I assure Mr. Stone that we are painfully aware that something has gone awry in our nation’s economy.

We know, however, that our age isn’t the problem: American economic attitudes and policies are. Since our country’s inception, policies have been designed to establish, widen, and protect race, class, and gender divides. Plenty of Boomers are on the self-protective economic bandwagon, along with people in Gen X, Y, and Z and plenty of Millennials. However, they’re not there because of their age—they’re there because they believe they have a right to more than the next person, especially if that next person is a person of color, a woman, or an immigrant. Greed and self-interest know no generational boundaries.

Margie Perscheid
Alexandria, Va.

Although I like the response, it doesn't entirely capture the feelings at DU especially when you consider the service to the country from Baby Boomers both in Vietnam and in stopping the war in Vietnam. Billy Joel's song, "We Didn't Start the Fire" still seems relevant. Although I ask, how can we say that now that we are in our 50s? But the power, the bigotry and greed of those who came before us was so powerful that some of us were "captured" while others fought back and still others suffered in their own ways. The true problem is with conservatism (small government?, trickle down economics?) is now a proven lie and will hopefully collapse.

since the Sixties and Cesar Chavez and the UFW lettuce and grape boycotts. There was a point in my life when the only times I had ever been in Washington was after a long busride to march on it.

I am tired, but still trying. At least I can make phone calls for the Democratic party now.

which disputes a lot of this boomers are bad business. And I agree with you that things began a slow crumble with Reagan, who did more to harm this country except for the current occupant. It was during that time that drowning the gov. in a tub began to raise it's head.

told me to my face that the country would be better off when the boomer generation died off.

Repug boomers along with others gave us trump, W, Daddy Bush and Reagan. Dem boomers gave us Obama, Clinton and Carter—almost Hillary Clinton except for Putin, repug vote suppressors and Comey so you are correct in blaming the convervative half of the cohort and not the whole.

GenXers and millennials are split too. You hear me, millennials? There are trumpers in your midst too.

in service of destroying Social Security & Medicare, courtesy of right-wing “think” tanks. It’s complete horseshit, and I hope nobody here falls for this narrative.

But I think one big reason for it is the youngsters degrees not preparing them the ways ours did. Every licensing exam I took recently I got the highest score and some kids had to drop out of the organization for not passing it. Part of it is their phone it in, log on to it degrees from private for-profit outfits that really are not Universities. Another failure of capitalism turning out failures.

and a research fellow at the right wing Institute for Family Studies.

https://ifstudies.org/about/our-mission

In addition, given the fact that his entire argument is predicated on a post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy, it's hard to believe that anyone on DU would trust his conclusion.

https://ifstudies.org/about/our-mission