(02-13-2024 11:51 PM)Frank Grimes Wrote: (02-13-2024 10:27 PM)b2b Wrote: (02-13-2024 07:30 AM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote: (02-12-2024 08:52 PM)BlueDragon Wrote: (02-12-2024 08:10 PM)shere khan Wrote: I dont listen to AM radio. I want america to he better.
We are losing. Losing rabidly.
Its s small mind that think America is superior in all things. Just think. Its a lie. Its a lie many good people believe.
I wouldn’t use Moscow as some Mecca.
Face facts Shere this country had a great run the WW2 generation built this country. The Boomers rode the coat tails as far as they could. The last two generations are spoiled rotten to the core. No work ethic, privileged turds, no discipline has all led to the freak show we watch daily.
This country is rotting at its core. Every day we sink further in debt. Each day we see the moral fabric decline with another form or letter being added to the alphabetical weirdos.
The fact you are unaccepting of these changes allows us to label you as bigoted racist homophobic or whatever label we can place on you.
I wouldn’t bet long on the US in this market. It has been said by a philosopher that house built upon the sand will collapse. This house is starting to show signs of that very scenario.
JMHO
GTFO with your blame game. You need to look around you at all the greatness this country had before the Millenials and Gen X'rs gave us Joe Biden. Much of that greatness came from the hard work and ingenuity of the boomers you people shite on.
As for the labels? You can also GTFO with that crap. Look around you, this upcoming generation is being taught all that, bigotry, hate and even violence. It's OK as long as its directed at old white people. They're being taught to hate Jews, where did that get Germany?
Just how old are you anyway?
Damn it's almost like Millenials and Gen X were raised by wolves. Is there a generation/less self aware than boomers?
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I think it was Blink-182 that said, "If we're ****ed up, you're to blame."
It's amazing how much **** boomers throw at X'ers and Millennials. Remind me again, who raised those generations?
Public Education did. Boomers were too preoccupied with their own pursuits to spend a lot of face time with the kids. They were also the first generation in a long time that didn't have grandparents in the home as well. Depression era people didn't have nursing homes, you took care of your parents and your kids helped the family out.
After Word War II Boomers became the first generation of children who had parents that built their worlds around pleasing their kids. The rise of Disney was not an accident and it could not have existed without the ethos that gave rise to the Boom. The minority of Boomers still grew up with family central and had responsibilities and that was mostly in rural areas. But not the Boomers raised in the burbs. They had oodles of other spoiled kids to play with and the pursuit of toys took on a passion fed by the steroids of keeping up with the neighbors. In a middle-middle class suburb cars and your kids became the status symbols of for the parents in competition with oodles of other couples just like them. Kids had free range of the neighborhood, allowances, and only a few chores. It was a far cry from the farm life many of their parents grew up with. The pursuit of careers took them far from the rural communities they grew up in, and the cities out west boomed with jobs and promise. Out of that milieu Walt launched his iconic theme park and the suddenly every kid could be the Annette or Cubby, fantasies of princes and princesses ruled the day, and our culture took a giant leap toward the narcissistic side of the street. So much so that Lake Woebegone could lampoon the resulting family on NPR for decades.
So yes, they were the parents of those they now criticize as being a disappointment or dysphoric, and why would that be so? Because their kids were no longer performing at levels that they could brag about. It wasn't about the kids and what they did or didn't do. It was about how the kid made the parents look and feel. The kids inherited a world where everything was more expensive, made more and more cheaply, and the kinds of opportunities that cause iconic baseball teams to leave Brooklyn and head West were gone. Disney gave way a little bit to K-mart which became TG&Y and Western Auto gave way with TG&Y to Walmart. Is it any wonder that in a world with crappy stuff made in China, lousy service, and few great jobs and even fewer opportunities to own your own business that kids shut down and eschewed the fantasy of the 50's? And of course, Boomers blame you, that's what narcissists do. So now when Bernie and Joe believe give aways solve problems, and Richy Rich is running on the other ticket representing everything that millennials and X'ers hate, namely their parents, and with corporate America buying influence in both parties to keep status quo on cheap labor abroad, you don't get the one thing you really need, the practicality and sober judgment of your parents' grandparents. I was lucky I got that on both sides of the family with living, practical, tell it like it is great grandparents who laughed at the bull**** of their children who went to the cities for jobs and hated the routine, and who spoiled their grandkids, the Boomers, who turned out to be even worse parents than their own who had fought the great WWII and truly wanted a better world, and little fantasy to forget the suffering of the depression, and the appalling carnage they survived in the war.
And so here we are, and we need sober and practical advisors, and encouragement to assist each other instead of being critical, and to find things of value in life which means relationships instead of stuff. And we can't get there because the purveyors of the pursuit of stuff control Congress and don't want practicality at all.
Research your great grandparents, try to understand your grandparents, realize your parents turned out like they did because their parents had great intentions but thought having stuff made life great, which is exactly what depression era children believed after hardly having anything. And that we can't fix this because the people who are elected president are the ones who screwed up the Boomers, or worse, are Boomers.
God bless you all, you are in another depression, just not one that has no money, but one that has few good relationships to model, and offers you no practical advice. And no it isn't your fault, but only you can help you. Everything else is too screwed up to depend upon. And that is the truth.
Mike and Mechanics sang about it in "The Living Years", Joni Mitchell lamented it in "The Circle Game", and a song I always hated by Harry Chapin, was that we live long enough to understand and realize that we become what we hated, "The Cats in the Cradle".