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I'll make broad generalizations about Boomers all day every day:

The boomers inherited a rich, dynamic country and have gradually bankrupted it. They habitually cut their own taxes and borrow money without any concern for future burdens. They’ve spent virtually all our money and assets on themselves and in the process have left a financial disaster for their children.

Boomers are a generational trust-fund baby: They inherited a country they had no part in building, failed to appreciate it, and seized on all the benefits while leaving nothing behind.

This is a generation that is dominated by feelings, not by facts. The irony is that boomers criticize millennials for being snowflakes, for being too driven by feelings. But the boomers are the first big feelings generation. They’re highly motivated by feelings and not persuaded by facts.

Something that doesn’t get discussed enough is how hostile so many of these boomers are to science. It’s not hard to connect this aversion to facts to some of these disastrous social policies.

Take this whole fantasy about trickle-down economics. We know it doesn’t work. The evidence is overwhelming. The experiment is over. And yet they’re still clinging to this dogma.

Time after time, when facts collided with feelings, the boomers chose feelings.

Boomers destroyed a sense of social solidarity, a sense of commitment to fellow citizens. That ethos is gone and it’s been replaced by a cult of individualism. It’s hard to overstate how damaging this is.

Fuck every last one of these sociopaths. The world will not heal until every single Boomer, including my parents, who I love, are fucking dead.