I wish I could feel sympathy, but I don’t. The Reagan generation did this to themselves, and the rest of us have to suffer with them.
I think maybe the description is a bit harsh, but for real, they eagerly helped prevent or overturn just about any social policy that didn’t benefit them. And now we’re stuck with the consequences.
I know a boomer couple that is extremely conservative. Lived in a nice house that got foreclosed on when the guy took out a loan and couldn’t pay it back. They berated their kids for being “failures” their whole lives.
Their kids are too poor to help them and the social services they opposed or helped gut won’t either. At least they have some bootstraps to pull themselves up by.
Boomers are not a homogeneous lump of identity and, while it is sometimes useful, this attitude is exactly why the use of generations as a unit of analysis has become degraded to the point of being worse than useless.
On the basis of your own analysis, I’m blaming you personally for Trump winning the presidency. You awful fascist, you.
I genuinely don’t know how to solve this until the boomers all fucking die. Which is clearly not a great solution to boomer homelessness.
“Group specifically responsible for creating this problem who will fight to the death to prevent solving the problem increasingly at risk from it”
I honestly wonder just how many of the homeless babyboomers have kids who are perfectly capable of helping them, but want absolutely no contact with their parents.
Pensions?!? We don’t need no stinking pensions!
