Teabag Boomers
by digby
Amanda is righteously pissed off at this sanctimonious boomer twit railing against "kids today" for refusing to grow up and be adults in their 20s as she apparently did. As I tweeted her, even when we baby boomers were young there were always these throwbacks lecturing people their own age about how "irresponsible" we all were for not getting our MRS degree and failing to start measuring the drapes for Barbie's dream house the day we graduated from college. They were already 25 years out of date at the time.
Nobody with any sense listened to them then and nobody should listen to them now, for the same reasons. Not only were they uptight, conservative creeps, many of them were also privileged princes and princesses who had plenty of money and lots of support from Mommy and Daddy in the not-so-economically vibrant 70s --- not all that different from today. (And of the working class wingnut types, many were screwed economically by those times and blamed the social revolution --- also not all that different from today.) The rest of us rejected everything the bourgeois prattlers were peddling and never looked back.
These are the teabaggers. They've always been assholes. And as with all baby boomers, there are unfortunately a whole bunch of them. Keep in mind, however, that they've also always been completely out of step with their times, they never had a clue, and no one cool and interesting ever liked them. It's why these they are having a gray and ugly "Woodstock" in their 50s and 60s where instead of warning them not to take the brown acid, the organizers have to remind them all to take their purple pills.
Pity them. Young or old, they've never had a day of sheer, joyful fun in their sad, unimaginative lives.
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