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Radical Activist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 01:44 AM Original message |
Who are the great, enduring political thinkers of the baby boom generation? |
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saracat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 01:53 AM Response to Original message |
1. Paul Krugman. Janes Carville whether you like him or not. |
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Radical Activist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 02:16 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Few of those are particularly liberal. |
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RoyGBiv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 03:31 AM Response to Reply #3 |
27. Question ... |
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Radical Activist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 03:51 AM Response to Reply #27 |
28. The cliche portrayal |
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saracat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 11:39 AM Response to Reply #3 |
38. You could add Tom Hayden as well as Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, Madeleine Albright |
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FarCenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 12:18 PM Response to Reply #38 |
41. Madeline Albright born 1937, Tom Hayden 1939 |
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saracat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 11:41 AM Response to Reply #3 |
40. You can also add Barack Obama to that list! And John Kerry. |
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Chan790 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 10:03 PM Response to Reply #40 |
138. Is Obama really a boomer? |
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FarCenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 12:25 PM Response to Reply #1 |
42. Carville 1944, Woodward 1943, Bernstein 1944, Zbig 1928, Gergen 1942, Hersh 1937 ar not Baby Boomers |
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Radical Activist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 02:13 PM Response to Reply #42 |
52. nevermind. |
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yardwork (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 02:59 PM Response to Reply #42 |
62. I thought that the baby boom generation started in 1943 or a little earlier. |
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annabanana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 03:37 PM Response to Reply #62 |
78. It was the post WWII batch of babies that had been "put on hold" |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 02:04 AM Response to Original message |
2. It Takes A Village |
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Radical Activist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 02:21 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. I've never heard the book described that way. |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 02:23 AM Response to Original message |
5. More anti Boomer bullshit from you. |
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Radical Activist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 02:27 AM Response to Reply #5 |
6. Talk about defensive. |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 02:30 AM Response to Reply #6 |
8. No, it's simply that I've seen you play this silly game before. |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 02:32 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. Boomers' kids just elected Obama |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 02:36 AM Response to Reply #9 |
13. Yes, the good ones did. |
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saracat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 11:40 AM Response to Reply #9 |
39. Funny how no one mentions Obama is a "boomer" himself! |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 01:45 PM Response to Reply #39 |
47. He's Generation X, He said himself he considers himself a "post-boomer" |
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saracat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 01:51 PM Response to Reply #47 |
49. How convienent for him.AFAIK, he is a late generation boomer. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 01:57 PM Response to Reply #49 |
50. As I said the Boom as defined sociocultural is different them the demographic baby-boom |
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saracat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 02:22 PM Response to Reply #50 |
54. I still find all thia sociocultural definition a bit of a stretch and an over rationalization. |
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Chan790 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 10:22 PM Response to Reply #54 |
139. would someone with a life experience similar to Obama's in 1964 or 1960 be incredibly different? |
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dysfunctional press (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 02:56 PM Response to Reply #39 |
61. nope- people born after 1960 have very little in common with the true baby-boomers. |
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Radical Activist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 03:32 PM Response to Reply #61 |
74. And clearly |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 01:40 PM Response to Reply #9 |
46. It was the Korean War generation that organized and lead the movements manned by Boomers. |
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Radical Activist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 02:27 PM Response to Reply #46 |
57. I think a lot of it was also lead |
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Radical Activist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 02:35 AM Response to Reply #8 |
11. The only one insulting a generation in this post |
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mrreowwr_kittty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 01:21 PM Response to Reply #8 |
44. You're right about the raising spoiled brats part. |
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DutchLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 07:14 PM Response to Reply #5 |
130. Grow up or get the fuck out. |
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sohndrsmith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 02:27 AM Response to Original message |
7. Walt Kelly. n/t |
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Radical Activist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 02:45 AM Response to Reply #7 |
16. Interesting. |
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sohndrsmith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 03:28 AM Response to Reply #16 |
26. there is nothing on the internet that will give you even a fraction of an idea |
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eowyn_of_rohan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 05:42 PM Response to Reply #7 |
117. Walt Kelly?? He is way older! I used to think this was SO funny... |
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elleng (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 02:35 AM Response to Original message |
10. Maybe we're the DOERS! |
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Radical Activist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 02:37 AM Response to Reply #10 |
14. I don't get anal about years |
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elleng (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 02:47 AM Response to Reply #14 |
17. I think I'll get 'what you said,' |
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Radical Activist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 02:53 AM Response to Reply #17 |
20. But since you mention |
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elleng (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 02:56 AM Response to Reply #20 |
21. Funny you mention Bella! |
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Radical Activist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 03:14 AM Response to Reply #21 |
25. Nice! |
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sohndrsmith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 05:03 AM Response to Reply #14 |
32. Huh... I have always thought I was a "post-boomer" - I thought "boomers" |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 05:48 AM Response to Reply #32 |
34. Baby boom generation, 1946-1964. That's only 18 years, barely a generation. |
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sohndrsmith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 06:00 AM Response to Reply #34 |
36. cool! Who knew? (well... apparently everyone but me - no surprise) :) |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 06:43 AM Response to Reply #36 |
37. We're both right. It does refer to the post WWII generation. Meaning, |
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dysfunctional press (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 03:00 PM Response to Reply #34 |
63. post-1960 people don't have much in common with true baby-boomers. see- "generation jones"... |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-08-08 08:05 AM Response to Reply #63 |
143. And neither did late 50's people. Why draw the line at 1960? |
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dysfunctional press (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-08-08 09:49 AM Response to Reply #143 |
147. the people i know born in the late 1950's are all very baby-boomerish... |
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yardwork (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 03:00 PM Response to Reply #34 |
64. I notice in this thread it's being shortened further - 1950-1960, only ten years. |
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saracat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 03:23 PM Response to Reply #64 |
68. Me too. This is just crap by folks who either weren't born or didn't participate. |
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Radical Activist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 02:09 PM Response to Reply #32 |
51. That's based |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-08-08 08:02 AM Response to Reply #51 |
142. There's always going to be this argument related to people on the cusp. |
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Radical Activist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-08-08 12:49 PM Response to Reply #142 |
151. The fact that Obama |
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yardwork (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-08-08 10:02 AM Response to Reply #51 |
148. I was born a year earlier than Obama, and somehow we are completely different generations? |
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Radical Activist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-08-08 12:46 PM Response to Reply #148 |
150. sigh |
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Blue_In_AK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 02:35 AM Response to Original message |
12. Me. |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 04:39 AM Response to Reply #12 |
30. Dr. Stephen T. Colbert, D.F.A. |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 02:38 AM Response to Original message |
15. Whoever can defeat the following GOP dogmas destroying our courts and schools ... |
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elleng (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 02:50 AM Response to Reply #15 |
18. Don't mean to pick a fight, |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 02:53 AM Response to Reply #18 |
19. Public schools had problems, but ... |
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elleng (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 03:00 AM Response to Reply #19 |
23. 'Fix' may or may not occur. |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 03:08 AM Response to Reply #23 |
24. Fix needs to occur. |
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pork medley (262 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 02:57 AM Response to Original message |
22. Slavoj Zizek? Christopher Hitchens? I don't know... |
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Floyd B Olson (4 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 04:38 AM Response to Original message |
29. Political Revolution? We had a political revolution? Far out! |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 04:45 AM Response to Original message |
31. Obama is a baby boomer. Did you forget him? |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 01:49 PM Response to Reply #31 |
48. Don't confuse the sociological generation with the dates of the demographic "generation" |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 09:50 PM Response to Reply #48 |
137. So those writers didn't want the label. Too bad. They're still Boomers. n/t |
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silverojo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 05:31 AM Response to Original message |
33. Why not just "great, enduring thinkers"? |
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Radical Activist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 02:23 PM Response to Reply #33 |
55. Because I already know many great enduring thinkers |
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old mark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 06:00 AM Response to Original message |
35. GW Bush? Bill Clinton? I can't think of any offhand. |
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librechik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 01:13 PM Response to Original message |
43. you mean the ones who aren't dead before 30 or blacklisted? |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 02:20 PM Response to Reply #43 |
53. I think you nailed it. n/t |
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Radical Activist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 02:33 PM Response to Reply #43 |
58. That gives the personal side of my opinion |
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saracat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 02:49 PM Response to Reply #58 |
59. I have a theory about that as well. The Baby Boom generation was among the best educated in the |
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Radical Activist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 04:08 PM Response to Reply #59 |
90. acadamia |
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saracat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 04:24 PM Response to Reply #90 |
95. My college in NY in the late 70's had quite a few Marxist Proffs. My Poi Sci teacher |
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Radical Activist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 04:33 PM Response to Reply #95 |
98. I really can't imagine |
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bread_and_roses (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 05:33 PM Response to Reply #59 |
113. Interesting thoughts |
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Waiting For Everyman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 06:55 PM Response to Reply #43 |
126. Blackballed and anonymous, persecuted ever since... |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 01:35 PM Response to Original message |
45. Can't think of any. Methinks they were too busy with Culture War crap to... |
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saracat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 02:25 PM Response to Reply #45 |
56. And this isn't boomer bashing? What is your definition of "culture war crap" |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 03:15 PM Response to Reply #56 |
65. Culture war crap = Newt Gingrich & Co. |
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saracat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 03:22 PM Response to Reply #65 |
66. And you know this how? BS. Many ,many boomers were involved in those movements |
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Mari333 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 03:23 PM Response to Reply #66 |
69. oh hell yes!! |
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saracat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 03:28 PM Response to Reply #69 |
72. And most of these folks cound't even get up off their butts to march against the Iraq War, which I |
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Mari333 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 03:33 PM Response to Reply #72 |
75. yes I havent stopped either |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 04:47 PM Response to Reply #72 |
100. Us Millennials worked out ass off for Obama. |
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saracat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 05:15 PM Response to Reply #100 |
109. Odd the increase in the youth vote wasn't even 1 percent and the most reliable voting block |
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Radical Activist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 05:27 PM Response to Reply #109 |
112. If only young voters had counted this election: |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 05:35 PM Response to Reply #112 |
114. Damn, my generation is looking more and more like the WW2 Generation |
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Radical Activist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 06:08 PM Response to Reply #114 |
120. Part of my thinking |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 07:03 PM Response to Reply #120 |
128. There actually a theory suggesting a cyclical pattern to this. |
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Waiting For Everyman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 07:10 PM Response to Reply #120 |
129. They probably do because the WW2 gen wouldn't even stop the pigs |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-08-08 08:11 AM Response to Reply #129 |
145. If you are in a union you better thank that WW2 Generation. |
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saracat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 05:39 PM Response to Reply #112 |
116. I didn't start this. And it isn't right for either generation to be self rightous. |
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Blue_In_AK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 05:45 PM Response to Reply #112 |
118. Good luck with that. |
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ContinentalOp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 08:36 PM Response to Reply #72 |
135. Yeah, it's embarassing how young people sat on their asses and did nothing to stop the Iraq war |
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Radical Activist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 08:55 PM Response to Reply #135 |
136. Or how the lessons of Vietnam |
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atimetocome (236 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 05:23 PM Response to Reply #65 |
111. time to educate yourself about the 'movements' and what they did for YOU> |
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Mari333 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 03:22 PM Response to Reply #56 |
67. I guess that all the marching I did in the 60s and 70s |
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saracat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 03:25 PM Response to Reply #67 |
70. No kidding. This is REALLY beginning to piss me off. |
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Mari333 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 03:36 PM Response to Reply #70 |
77. hey we all have issues with parents |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 03:51 PM Response to Reply #67 |
82. Read what I posted, I said "STARTED AND LEAD" |
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Radical Activist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 04:04 PM Response to Reply #82 |
87. lol |
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saracat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 04:06 PM Response to Reply #82 |
88. As long as you continue to dismiss one of the best and brightest generation s this nation ever had I |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 04:43 PM Response to Reply #88 |
99. You boomers need to quit with hagiographies that steal the Silents' achevements as your own. |
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saracat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 05:05 PM Response to Reply #99 |
106. The arrogance and ignorance displayed by such a comment is breathtaking. |
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Mari333 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 06:54 PM Response to Reply #106 |
125. someones mad at mama. n/t |
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Waiting For Everyman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 07:15 PM Response to Reply #99 |
131. "Silent" says it all. |
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Mari333 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 04:15 PM Response to Reply #82 |
92. no one in the 60s ignored the generations before them |
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dysfunctional press (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 02:54 PM Response to Original message |
60. not me- i'm a generation joneser...or the vangaurd of gen-x...whichever you prefer. |
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carlyhippy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 03:34 PM Response to Reply #60 |
76. as one born on the last year of the boomer age |
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Radical Activist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 03:44 PM Response to Reply #76 |
80. I never see this mentioned much... |
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carlyhippy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 03:45 PM Response to Reply #80 |
81. good point, probably so n/t |
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Mari333 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 03:55 PM Response to Reply #80 |
84. it was an ongoing process |
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saracat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 04:07 PM Response to Reply #84 |
89. The point is, we took up the torch, which was more than any other generation did. |
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Mari333 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 04:11 PM Response to Reply #89 |
91. yes, and it had to be done |
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CanSocDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 04:23 PM Response to Reply #84 |
93. You'll remember these... |
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Radical Activist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 04:29 PM Response to Reply #93 |
96. No, I don't. |
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Mari333 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 04:32 PM Response to Reply #93 |
97. yeah i met paul |
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CanSocDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 04:57 PM Response to Reply #97 |
104. You made me think of... |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 03:27 PM Response to Original message |
71. Omg. Fabio, Reagan and Cheech Marin! |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 03:30 PM Response to Reply #71 |
73. Richard Melon-Scaife, Walt Disney and Bob Jones (of Bob Jones University fame). n/t |
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saracat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 03:39 PM Response to Reply #73 |
79. Sorry. Not Boomers. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 03:55 PM Response to Reply #79 |
83. It's funny because all the people I think of -- from Joan Didion to Hunter Thompson |
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Radical Activist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 04:02 PM Response to Reply #83 |
86. Same here. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 04:24 PM Response to Reply #86 |
94. Maybe part of the problem is that we don't see our peers as leaders |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 04:50 PM Response to Reply #94 |
101. LOL,! |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 03:59 PM Response to Reply #79 |
85. Damn. They influenced them, though! n/t |
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all.of.me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 04:51 PM Response to Original message |
102. William Kunstler & the Berrigans - too old? |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 04:51 PM Response to Original message |
103. Labeling generations and ascribing traits to them is misguided. |
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Trailrider1951 (933 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 05:04 PM Response to Original message |
105. Damn, y'all are looking in the wrong places. My list? |
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saracat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 05:07 PM Response to Reply #105 |
107. Johm Lennon, Melanie, and Jim Morrison and not to forget |
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CanSocDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 05:14 PM Response to Reply #105 |
108. And Lenny Bruce,,,,(eom) |
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saracat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 05:17 PM Response to Reply #108 |
110. I thought of him too but the obsession some have with birth years |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 05:36 PM Response to Reply #105 |
115. Carlin and Dylan were/are of the Silent Generation, pre-Boomer. |
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Blue_In_AK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 05:51 PM Response to Reply #115 |
119. Not so silent, though, were they? |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 06:57 PM Response to Reply #119 |
127. LOL, I didn't name their generation that! |
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Mari333 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 07:29 PM Response to Reply #127 |
132. I had never heard the term 'silent generation' until here |
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Luminous Animal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 06:30 PM Response to Original message |
121. Cornell West... Barbara Ehrenreich... (n/t) |
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Luminous Animal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 06:39 PM Response to Reply #121 |
122. bell hooks... Glenn Greenwald... (n/t) |
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Luminous Animal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 06:49 PM Response to Reply #122 |
123. Arundhati Roy... Manning Marable |
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Mari333 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 06:52 PM Response to Reply #123 |
124. alice walker, rita mae brown, fannie flagg n/t |
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Radical Activist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 07:34 PM Response to Reply #121 |
133. I did like Nickel & Dimed. |
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Radical Activist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-07-08 07:43 PM Response to Original message |
134. Eric Schlosser |
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saracat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-08-08 07:44 AM Response to Original message |
140. BTW, RFK Jr. is a Boomer! |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-08-08 08:13 AM Response to Reply #140 |
146. He's also an anti-vaccine nut-job. Not a good example. |
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saracat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-08-08 11:48 AM Response to Reply #146 |
149. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs too. Gee funny you put Kennedy down. He is one of the most |
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blindpig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-08-08 07:54 AM Response to Original message |
141. There are none. |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-08-08 08:08 AM Response to Reply #141 |
144. That might be true, |
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