Thank the Boomers, Don’t Berate Them

With the changing of the guard in DC, many speculate that January 20th will symbolize the passing of an entire generation: the baby boomer years.  However, it’s more than a generational change with Obama being a relatively young president, it is more like a sense that a cultural era is ending.  This was a very unique era  dominated by the boomers, many of whom came of age in the ’60s and experienced the bitter divisions caused by the Vietnam War and the protests against it, the civil rights struggle, social change, sexual freedoms, and more.  The peace sign was our symbol and our slogan was Us Against the Man.  It is theorized by many that those experiences, led boomers, born between 1946 and 1964, to become deeply motivated by the need to address all of the social injustices that our country had long ignored.  Read more »