My Housemate said: "The Democrats are in Favor of Socialism." THAT'S FALSE. He was Told a Lie, He Believed the Lie and He Repeated the Lie.

19 out of 20 Candidates for President ARE NOT in Favor of Socialism. DUH! and then, to Defend His Position, he gave the example of the USSR... a COMMUNIST COUNTRY... (Not Socialist) Not Holland, Norway, Denmark or Sweden... Socialist Countries that are Doing Great!

However the TrumpNik Brainwashing Machine has Convinced him that It's Sunny at Night and Dark During the Day. 2+2=5 and Trump is a Saint! I guess they really learned a Thing or Two from the CIA Project MKULTRA... "They" have Manufactured a Hundred Million Mind Control Robots...

Remember: Believing Lies is NOT a Great Way to Live...

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Darryl Cherney says: "Boomer" is an epithet used by the wannabe PC crowd to hide their ageism, bigotry, and ignorance of the contributions and problems of each generation, which is pretty much the same since recorded history. The fostered attitude brings us divide and conquer that the establishment has used for millennia. Shall we hold Dylan Roof and the Unite the Right Marchers in Charlottesville as a poster children for the current generation? The baby boom brought us the Beatles, Motown, Bob Dylan, the environmental, women's, and modern day ciivl rights movements, alternative medicine, the rise of paganism and Earth centered spiritualities, and much more. In other words, to quote Judi Bari, "Ignorance is distributed equally among the classes," and I would add, among the generations. Or as JC might put it: "Let they who are without sin... "

Robert Smyth :Remember, “Don’t trust anyone over thirty?” Every new generation shakes their collective heads at the previous generation. If I were a Millennial, I’d feel pretty let down by the previous generation’s greed and selfishness that’s contributed to the rapidly deteriorating condition of our climate and biosphere, along with the residual 20th Century strains of Ignorance that seem so hard to shake, even twenty years into the 21st Century.

Darryl Cherney:I remember so well "Don't trust anyone over 30." And to take if further "Kill your parents." So glad we can count on the young to save us. I've been waiting for them for 20 years to join us. However, this current PC language obsessed generation seems to be looking for at least something to be bigoted against without feeling un-PC. Aha! People born after 1949 or so. Perfect. That working single mom and fighting for the union dad and getting ripped apart by police dogs civil rights activists are the problem. Seriously poor analysis. It's always been the rich and it has nothing to do with age.

Darryl Cherney This is all straight up divide and conquer. One could argue that the generations before baby boomers (I won't use the epithet) and well into baby boomers well into the 60's had to fight for all those things that the next generations took for granted.. One could argue those next generations took all those things for granted and lost them because they were hand them on a silver platter didn't have to fight for them in the first place. But I don't argue that because all generations have the same cross sections of points of view, more or less.

Darryl Cherney Which generation did Dylan Roof belong to, or those mass shooters at Parkland, and Columbine and the theater in Colorado? What about the younger Republican Congress thugs, of which there are plenty to match up to AOC. Which side represents the generation? Answer: they all do.

Darryl Cherney Every generation mistrusts their elders and that is what is so unenlightened about it. These are the end times of civilization as we know it. It's the use of divide and conquer when coming together to save our planet is imperative. My opinion, while standing for the rights of so many, some people seek at least someone to be bigoted against, just like some liberals love to have a liberal to attack to make themselves feel "fair-minded." This is old stuff.

Darryl Cherney What if I said this photo [Neo Nazi men with torches] represents the current generation? (It doesn't represent them anymore than the nazi youth did in the 30's and 40's). But that's what it feels like when I hear this bigoted b-word expression which by its definition is inherently opposed to diversity of age while the user theoretically espouses diversity of everything else.

Darryl Cherney Ariel Hanson, et al. You've missed my point. I'm not comparing the words boomer and nazi at all. I'm saying that one can't lay claim that an entire generation is at fault when there are more than millions of young people going on a destructive, bigoted path and if you want to lay the blame on baby boomers then one must look at all the members of every generation, including these guys. So shall I assume they are representative of young people any more than a very few baby boomers are representative of an entire generation. You can't have it both ways.

Darryl Cherney: Here's a media piece on it with the angle being support of Bernie Sanders. This woman says that the influence of earlier generations appears all white, male and capitalist with names like Dave, John, Steve, etc., but she appears to be ignorant of names like Martin, Malcolm, Gloria, Rachel, Judi, Caesar, Jesse, Leonard, Abby, Huge, Eldridge, Geronimo, Anna Mae, Bella, not to mention John, Paul, George and Ringo and hundreds if not thousands more who changed the direction of thinking and action in this country, at least. To top it off, she speaks with a Valley Girl accent. Oh yeah, I forgot Frank. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH6D8uJzp8g

Signe Nielsen: Naw, we done f#cked up the planet.

Darryl Cherney: Which we? The Native peoples? Union organizers? Greenpeace? Rachel Carson? The Beatles? Impoverished peoples worldwide including here? The people originally brought as slaves? The Zulu? The Icelanders? Which we? Or was it the Emperors, the Bankers, the Slave Traders, the Oilmen, the Railroad tycoons and auto manufacturers, the politicians? Or... was it a system put in place long ago before memory that we barely recognize has been matrixed over us? Which "we"?

Cynthia Kruger: Darryl – collectively, humans have eff’d up the planet.
Sure greed is a large part of it, but so has been medicine in the sense it may have shortcut an important mechanism that kept population growth in check, or perhaps the development of agriculture which helped population to grow as food scarcity became less. Our many solutions for particular problems have had (unintended) consequences that (partly) led to uncontrolled population growth.

And, I would be remiss if I failed to mention religious dogma encouraging people to prosper and procreate. While the exhortation to procreate originally had a practical reason . . . insuring species continuity . . . it became separated from that imperative at some point by greed.