Although 52 is technically Gen X (which he points out quite often), it wouldn't take much for a younger person to still call him a Boomer. Still, I agree, it's the mindset. there are plenty of 'Boomers' (by age) who aren't Boomers in their thinking and I've encountered Gen X and Millenials who are very Boomerish in their thinking. So I'd say that's more like how one should approach it (though most Boomers are generationally Boomers, too. lol).

@CourseofEmpire

I encounter a lot of people in the Boomer generation who don't understand what's going on or where it comes from. I encounter a lot of people younger than Boomers who don't either.

But I get a bit aggravated at people who are "based" - who know what's going on and where it comes from, yet still want to say that it's a generational thing.

The Federal Reserve Act was established in 1913. No Boomers were around for it. America was coerced into a fratricidal war in Europe in 1941. No Boomers around for any of that, either. The Hart-Celler Act was established in 1965. Some Boomers were around during that time, but most were children and the few young adult Boomers of that period had no political influence.

My point - it's difficult to say exactly when the ball started rolling which brought us to where things stand today. But it was long before the Boomers arrived on the scene. The Boomers were subjected to the same influences which were around in 1913, 1941, 1965, and today. They weren't able to see through it any better than those who came before them or after.

Absolutely correct Pandoro. These folks feel boomers are the problem, as if not for them, human nature would be rainbows and kumbaya.

These idealistic, gullible Utopians are surprised every time their Utopias fail, or blame it on Constitutionalists, who back the only system of governance to address and harness flawed human nature, to provide the most fair and best protection of individual rights in history.

And then after succeeding in destabilizing our Constitutional society, they blame “boomers,” or Constitutionalists for what Utopians themselves did, to justify doing something that history has proved never works. Then say we’re never going back.

Ya know what? They may be right. Thousands of lives were lost and ruined to establish our Constitutional Republic, in favorable conditions, such as a public awareness of the Great philosophers.

Today’s public is aware of Homer Simpson.

Of course, there will be factions, there will always be factions, but if there is a more general agreement on many key points with an agree to disagree mentality, one can forge something more sustainable. There is simply no speaking to the more extreme globalist left (the more 'moderate' liberal types may still be approachable, but their numbers are shrinking). Dialogue is over. There are no political solutions.

See my reply to Pandoro above.