"The most prominent Boomer presidential candidate is Hillary Clinton who voted for the Iraq War." I would argue that Barak Obama, born 1961, is an equally prominant Boomer candidate and here is where I think a lot of people get it wrong. Boomers span a lot of years, in fact my parents are Boomers and I am a Boomer though my younger brother by two years is not. I think there is a huge difference between the exeperiences of the early Boomers who were raised in the 1950s and the later Boomers whose formative years happened in the 1970s. By the time I was a sentinent person the Revolution had moved to Studio 54 and the Movement soon morphed, with Jerry Rubin in the lead, into the Gordon Gekko, Greed Is Good, ethos of the 1980s. We Boomer children of Boomer parents were the first generation to experience divorce in mass numbers and we saw our parents indulge themselves in many ways and in many ways these more casual social mores made us more accepting of "alternative lifestyles" than any other generation in history, hence it is no coincidence that the historic shifts in the perception of Gays and Gay rights as evidenced by the acceptence of the right to Gay people to marry the person of their choice in California, New York, and Vermont are happening now. We Boomer childen of Boomer parents, Children of the Me Generation, the post-Altamont Generation, the Bicentennial Generation, tended to idolize the generation of the 60s, the generation the Stopped the War, the Hippies, Abbie Hoffman, the Weathermen, the Black Panthers, and keenly felt the last gasp of the Old Guard when Ronald Reagan was elected president. For us, the assassination of John Lennon had more resonance than the trio we see printed on tapestries who were shot when we were too young to relate. We are different, as evidenced by Barack Obama, but we are Boomers too, just Boomers of a different sort, bringing up the rear with a more socially aware generation behind us which we steathly produced and raised with the values that are important to us, based on our experiences because, after all, the personal is the political. Peace.
Boomers v. Boomers
"The most prominent Boomer presidential candidate is Hillary Clinton who voted for the Iraq War." I would argue that Barak Obama, born 1961, is an equally prominant Boomer candidate and here is where I think a lot of people get it wrong. Boomers span a lot of years, in fact my parents are Boomers and I am a Boomer though my younger brother by two years is not. I think there is a huge difference between the exeperiences of the early Boomers who were raised in the 1950s and the later Boomers whose formative years happened in the 1970s. By the time I was a sentinent person the Revolution had moved to Studio 54 and the Movement soon morphed, with Jerry Rubin in the lead, into the Gordon Gekko, Greed Is Good, ethos of the 1980s. We Boomer children of Boomer parents were the first generation to experience divorce in mass numbers and we saw our parents indulge themselves in many ways and in many ways these more casual social mores made us more accepting of "alternative lifestyles" than any other generation in history, hence it is no coincidence that the historic shifts in the perception of Gays and Gay rights as evidenced by the acceptence of the right to Gay people to marry the person of their choice in California, New York, and Vermont are happening now. We Boomer childen of Boomer parents, Children of the Me Generation, the post-Altamont Generation, the Bicentennial Generation, tended to idolize the generation of the 60s, the generation the Stopped the War, the Hippies, Abbie Hoffman, the Weathermen, the Black Panthers, and keenly felt the last gasp of the Old Guard when Ronald Reagan was elected president. For us, the assassination of John Lennon had more resonance than the trio we see printed on tapestries who were shot when we were too young to relate. We are different, as evidenced by Barack Obama, but we are Boomers too, just Boomers of a different sort, bringing up the rear with a more socially aware generation behind us which we steathly produced and raised with the values that are important to us, based on our experiences because, after all, the personal is the political. Peace.