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In reply to the discussion: Yes DU trends to an older audience. [View all]NNadir
(33,621 posts)...in Civil Rights.
I was in elementary school when Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act. He was born in 1908, Dr. King in1929.
I was in high school when humans landed on the moon. The engineers who built the landers, who lived in the area in which I grew up were my parent's ages, not mine.
To me, Donald Trump is the avatar of my generation. My demographic represents the class of people in which he has the highest support, fat, old, bald white men.
I will never forget a baseball game to which I went where my team consisted of one time Hippie draft evaders where they were all praising Raygun's tax cuts.
Like wise I worked in a lab where my fellow boomers placed a TV in the library to cheer for the killing of human beings in Iraq War #1. They were suddenly FOR war when they reached an age where they could not be expected to participate.
Of course there are exceptions to any sweeping demograhic profile. Overall however the boomer generation in this country should hope to be forgotten by history but to the extent we are remembered by it, it won't be pretty, assuming that the "history" exists at all.
Sorry, but as my life draws to a close, I'm damned disappointed in my generation and my class.