I had two experiences over the last weekend that highlight how generational change is going to help make America great again. Driving through Manhattan Beach, a Los Angeles suburb where people have more money than common sense, we passed a crew of elderly boomers standing at a busy corner waving signs about the incipient fascism of Donald Trump. These Gramsci school geriatrics no doubt thought they were fighting the power because there’s no one more oppressed than retirees from Manhattan Beach. I greeted them with a middle finger, and Irina – who escaped the kind of communism these Boomer Bolsheviks would impose upon us – greeted them with a word that began with the letter “F,” and it was not “friend.”
My other experience was much more uplifting and took place at the wedding of Townhall’s own Larry O’Connor’s daughter in beautiful Orange County. She is a Naval Academy graduate, as is her husband, so the place was packed with Navy ensigns and Marine second lieutenants. These kids were enough to restore some of your faith in humanity. No wokeness. No wussiness. They were smart, confident, and proud to be serving our country. Several had already started families, and most of them were extremely devout. I trained a lot of O-1s in my career, and I know the difference between warriors and half-steppers. These young patriots made me feel proud, and also old. I realized that being a Desert Storm veteran to them today would’ve been like me back when I got my commission talking to a Korean War vet. I appreciated that they were very polite and didn’t rub in this retired colonel’s total irrelevance to today’s military.
Obviously, these were exceptional young people, but young people in general are waking up. They are based, and not just in the sense of being stationed at Camp Pendleton. If you look at the poll numbers, to the extent they can be trusted, it’s young people here in the United States – as well as overseas – who are voting for change. They are the ones embracing Donald Trump. They are the ones embracing the popular parties in Canada and Germany. And the boomers, crusty degenerates in many cases – are resisting change. It’s old voters who want to maintain the status quo. They enjoy their mediocrity. Most are retired and just want to ensure those checks keep coming from the people who work for a living. Yeah, I know they paid into Social Security. They also had a half-century to fix the system and didn’t do it.
The Boomers have been the worst generation in American history, and one of their worst qualities is that they just won’t go away. Why do you think Congress is full of old people? It’s boomers who won’t quit. There’s a time to pass the torch, but these selfish seniors just keep passing rhetorical gas.
Yeah, I get that it’s hard to let go, but it isn’t the Summer of ’69 anymore, folks. Woodstock was over a half-century ago. You’ve had your turn. I know it’s hard to sit on the sidelines, but that’s where you belong. And I don’t have a lot of pity for them, although, technically, by one week, I am one of them. But I identify as Gen X, so please respect my identity and use my pronouns: Crockett/Tubbs.
They really screwed things up for the young generation. Imagine you’re a young person who was born around 9/11, which these young sailors and Marines were. In your country, you’ve seen America’s economy hollowed out. You’ve seen Wall Street crash. You’ve watched the government fail at everything. Culturally, every institution has gone off course from its original purpose and become focused on nonsense like CRT and pure grifting. In school, you were taught that men are bad, and America is too, and that straight American men are the worst of all. You’ve seen race relations deteriorate. You’ve seen our elite intentionally import tens of millions of Third World peasants to take our jobs while robbing, raping, and murdering our citizens. And you’ve been told you’re a bad person for noticing this.
You were forced to pretend men could become women, and if you were a girl, you were forced to have some dude with the whole sausage factory hanging out lurking in your locker room. You’ve been addicted to screens and poisonous social media. Your chance of happiness has been disrupted because normal teen mating rituals like dating and such have been completely ruined by sick Boomer feminism crap that makes boys shrug their shoulders and turn to online filth instead of trying to meet girls. You’ve seen the entertainment industry turn to trash. Hell, the music these kids listen to is absolutely terrible. Taylor Swift is an auto-tuned harpy.
Our country hasn’t won a war unequivocally since they’ve been alive. The elite of their country has abandoned basic concepts like color blindness, free speech, and even democracy. Oh, the boomers cry about democracy, but apparently, democracy now means framing opposition leaders – we’ve seen that from here to France and beyond. It means banning political parties – look at what the Germans are doing to the AfD, which is – wait for it – primarily a vehicle for younger German voters. In the ’60s, politically active young people tended to be leftists, but those leftists eventually got power, and now they don’t want to give it up. They don’t care what it takes to hold onto it. That’s why you see people getting arrested for tweeting things in England. That’s why you saw “misinformation” used as an excuse for the government making social media companies silence American citizens.
And, of course, there was COVID, and I don’t think we can fully appreciate the effect of it on those kids. COVID was the result of our elite’s idiocy in funding virus mutation research. It got out of hand and killed millions. And then, of course, they lied about it. And not just a little. They lied to our faces again and again and again. They lied about where it came from. They lied about how deadly it was. They lied about the vaccine. They said the magic vaxx would prevent COVID, and when it became obvious it wasn’t, they just changed their lies. Of course, the vaccine injured a bunch of people and they lied about that. The kids’ high school years were supposed to be a fun time. These kids spent them in masks. They had virtual proms. And it was all because of the gross incompetence and corruption of the same people whose supporters are now standing on street corners waving signs about how Trump is a literal Nazi.
Young people, particularly young men, have had enough. They’re not going to be shamed. They’re not going to be intimidated. They’re not going to be suppressed. And there’s another thing they’re not going to be. They’re not going to be dead in the next 20 years like most of these Boomers are. Time marches on, and the people who ruined this country are marching to the cemetery. Thankfully, we have a follow-on generation that may just save America and the West.
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