I'm having a hard time believing so many of us are so unenlightened. I am ashamed

Some folks become more fearful, selfish and easy to manipulate as they get older.

have been born between '46 and '64. It is almost impossible to name a single person born after 1945 who played any kind of role in the civil-rights movement, Students for a Democratic Society, the New Left, the antiwar movement, or the Black Panthers during the 1960's. Those movements were all started by older, usually much older, people. They played no major role in the passage of the Civil Rights Act or the Voting Rights Act, or in the decisions of the Warren Court. Almost none of the musicians who were popular during that era were boomers they were mostly all born before 1945.

Most supported the Vietnam War, the Iraqi and Afganistan War, and in fact almost all the conflicts post WWII.

We (I'm a boomer - born 1950) can pretend to be a 60's person but none of it was our idea.

SORRY but as a boomer I think I can truthfully say that we are leaving a fucked up world to later generations and although many seem to not have much confidence in the post-boomer generations - I think they represent what many of of present day Democrats believe in these days. It is easy to see why many are cynical.

I just hope we can get them (the youth of America) to the polls in order to stop this madness that has been brought on by my generation.

Peace!

My friends and I spent a lot of time at protests, getting heads bashed in and breathing tear gas. We helped found free clinics, some of the first food coops, worked in low income social service agencies and pursued teaching careers trying to make a difference.

These choices have led many of us to a lower level of income than the corporate folks, but we are legion. We are the only ones keeping my local Democratic precincts alive. When I am doing voter registration, I always ask the young'uns, "Please come and replace me. We need you!" They laugh and walk on.

It's easy to make blanket generalizations that seek to pit the generations against each other. These strategies being used against all of our best interests - causing division, despair and apathy towards maintaining our democracy.

I'm not going to participate in that. We are all in this fight together. Young folks, please come and replace me. I will hang on as long as I can until you get here.

XOXOX - Boomer Grandma.

We expect people who were born in 1945 and after to have been deeply involved in the civil rights movement? A few were in their early 20s but most of them were between 5 and 15 years old at that time. And the ones were were old enough certainly were involved. Are we saying that only people who were in their late 20s were involved? Those people were the leaders, but there are plenty of people who were in the Boomer generation that were putting in time just as the poster a couple up was mentioning.

Give it a few more years and tell me who was on the frontlines of protesting the war in Vietnam. Who were the kids getting shot at Kent State, as one example.

We are in this time when we feel like we need to go back and retroactively wash away everything that this group did do, just because they are now a more conservative block, as every other generation has done as they get older as well. The silent generation that we as ascribing so much of the civil rights movement to was a pretty conservative group as they go into their 60s and 70s as well.

It seems like the progressive wing of this party is very interested in telling everyone how wrong they are about everything and why they are terrible. We aren't going to win much of anything ever if that's the path we are going to take.

I wasn't nor were almost everyone I knew at the time but we were a minority - even though it seemed everyone we knew disagreed. I'm not saying I like it but it is a fact.

An example of "reflexive control", that seeks to shape our perceptions so that we make decisions in their favor.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328562833_Russian_Reflexive_Control


I'm not buying it.

You must have not been to the university I went to.
It was crawling with SDS. A bunch of male chauvinist pigs.. lol - left that group quick.

Stereotypes suck.

Maybe not some of the leaders who were a bit older. The thing is, this was hardly a generational majority.

As a teenager, I knew lots of people of this generation and am thankful for their support and political activity.

There is general progress in society, even through the various reactionary presidencies like Reagan, the Bushes, and Trump too. Sometimes new generations adopt new ideas more easily than people who already shaped a firmer worldview.

These numbers do not surprise me one bit.

that we just need to get more young people to vote. Some years have been better than others but they never vote in the same numbers as older voters.

Which is ultimately why the Dems recaptured the house. This year it very well MIGHT be different.

They are just getting started. It is going to be THEIR mess! They had better figure this out. I haven't the greatest amount of confidence they will. I've had experience passing out voter registration cards, and the younger voters were so arrogant and proud to not be voters, and even have NEVER voted. Like it was a badge of honor. Idiots. That was some 15 years ago, but I'm not terribly hopeful. May just be too late...but we can hope?

Sad and quite discouraging.

The young people I know give me hope.

I have great hope for them.

They are very aware the world may become uninhabitable during their lifetime. That is enough to get anyone's attention.

They are still young, full of energy, and can still believe in impossibilities becoming possible. I'll help in every way that I can. But yes, they can, and SHOULD, take my place.

...

Old enough to die for our country, old enough to be automatically registered to vote.

Also, there should be a national (PAID) holiday for voting day.

It must be the southern and Midwest boomers who are dying off at a faster rate than coastal boomers like me.

On how many are being removed and disenfranchised.

It the young don't care, then fuck them.

Quit blaming us for the world you will die in!

Don't vote? Don't bitch!

Way too many older folks are leaving a festering sewer and sneering at the youth for not being excited to clean it up for them.

And they get huffy about "ok Boomer". Unreal

We were at the front of the anti war movement and started Earth Day!
The rivers were on fire or foaming before we got active.

The point is the same!

If you do not vote, you lose the right to complain.

I apologize if I hurt anyone's feelings.

I will be dead soon enough. I am obsolete!

Should I die faster?

Under the bridge is only a short paycheck away!

And:

In 1969 at a UNESCO Conference in San Francisco, peace activist John McConnell proposed a day to honor the Earth and the concept of peace, to first be celebrated on March 21, 1970, the first day of spring in the northern hemisphere. This day of nature's equipoise was later sanctioned in a proclamation written by McConnell and signed by Secretary General U Thant at the United Nations.

A month later a separate Earth Day was founded by United States Senator Gaylord Nelson as an environmental teach-in first held on April 22, 1970. Nelson was later awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom award in recognition of his work.[6] While this April 22 Earth Day was focused on the United States, an organization launched by Denis Hayes, who was the original national coordinator in 1970, took it international in 1990 and organized events in 141 nations.[7][8]

LOVE those young folk

It's where the majority of the electorate is, including Democrats. More than half of Democrats self-identify as moderates and conservatives.

Assuming that this reliable voting bloc is mythical would be a losing proposition for any campaign that does so. It one wants to lose, that's a good way to start.

I've made that point here and on other sites like defunct MyDD for the past 20 years. I am liberal but only a masochistic nutcase would somehow believe that forcing liberals onto the national electorate is the ideal plan.

We could have gotten away with it in 2008 because the situational slant was heavily in our favor due to Bush's sustained 35-42% approval rating since Katrina, the economy tanking, and voters ready to change parties after 8 years of Republican rule. That was the time to nominate someone like Elizabeth Warren. She could have pushed through meaningful legislation including better health care, etc.

If we try that type of thing now against an incumbent whose party has been in power only one term, the situational realities will reject us without concern. I get tied of pointing out that 46% of Floridians dismissed Andrew Gillum as too liberal for the state, and likewise 42% of Georgia voters with Stacey Abrams. The midwestern job loss has made those states a heck of a lot more problematic than they were a decade ago.

Person in 2008.

And then Dems do what they usually do in midterms. Stay home.

Obama didn’t let us down. The voters let him down.

And Warren would not have won in 2008. It took Obama to beat HRC, and that was only because Obama was that good on stage. Warren has a lot of plans. But she wouldn’t have beaten Hillary.

where it counts.

And turnout is much higher among older voters.

The GOP knows this, and that is also why younger and non-white voters are being targeted for voter suppression.

Old people vote. Young people sometimes vote.

The torch should be -- graciously -- passed to the generation that must live with the consequences of climate change (among many, many other deleterious social ills).

Brilliant!

But we need to try and change that. Many youth showed up in 2018 and gave us the House. Let’s hope even more vote in 2020!