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Please, let me – although I am going to describe this in generalities from anecdotal experience – dispel a myth about the Boomers. Some describe this generation in terms of two cohorts: the Older Boomers and the Younger Boomers (yours truly being one of the younger ones). The Older Boomers came of age in the Sixties. The Younger Boomers came of age in the Seventies. Let’s set the record straight about the Older Boomers. Among them are very many men and women who served in the Republic of Vietnam and elsewhere. They went and did their duty. There were very many also who supported them, but overall, on balance, the majority in that generation tended Leftwards. Maybe that is still the case. Perhaps it breaks down about 60% of that cohort is Soft Liberal/Hard Left. The Younger Boomers saw all of this happening and also was caught up in the late stages of that vortex in American society, but during the Seventies gradually gravitated over towards Reagan against Carter in 1980. That was most of my classmates at UNH my sophomore year in college. I did not leave the Left until 1987, but that was a journey that, strangely, took me down some interesting paths intellectually and I probably benefited from it in ways I could never predict. Probably 60% to maybe 70% of the Younger Boomers are more conservative, ranging from center to slightly left of center to right of center. So, on balance these two cohorts more or less balance each other out.

My experience with the GenXers is sort of mixed, but overall I think that generation, small as it is, cuts more in a conservative direction, once they grew up and got more life experience.

Now, it is the generation after the GenXers that is very strongly left of center. Most are still very young and they are the ones who got full bore cultural Marxism in school and later on in the universities. I get very angry at the people in my generation who got tenure and then proceeded to participate in the ruination of the education of these kids. It breaks my heart, and I am now thinking about getting involved in my local school board for that very reason. I have had enough of this shit, and want to do my part to put cultural Marxism in abeyance.