Thread: America’s Worst Generation

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America’s Worst Generation
By Paul Streitz
Dec 26, 2005, 18:52

The valiant generation of Americans that fought World War II to preserve our liberty and western civilization was followed by the worst generation in the history of the country: the Baby Boomer generation born from 1946-1964.

The elite Baby Boomers turned the United States from the most prosperous countries on the planet to a country heading toward bankruptcy. It acquired a massive foreign trade deficit that will take generations to pay off. It deconstructed U.S. industries and the invited the invasion of millions of illegal aliens.

The Baby Boomers declared the Constitution to be a worthless piece of paper. It derided the notion that United States was unique place among the nations of the world and declared that it was only the equal of other countries, if not worse. The Baby Boomers mocked the nation’s Christian heritage and forced ordinary citizens to fight to keep Christmas in public places.

In David McClelland’s 1961 opus, “The Achieving Society,� McClelland shows that rises or declines in the “need for achievement� precede the economic rise or decline of a society. For him growing societies have a great deal of “need for achievement� This need for achievement plateaus as the society becomes wealthier and eventually declines. This precedes the eventual dissolution of the society. He notes that the wealth of the society prevents parents from developing self-reliance in their children. This lack of self-reliance leads to the children having a reduced need for achievement. Describing Athenian society, McClelland says,

What is new is that there is now evidence for a very specific way in which wealth caused “character� to “degenerate.� It enabled parents to provide slaves to care for their children, which deprived the children of the early self-reliance training the parents may themselves have received in less wealthy homes.

He elaborates,

It is tempting to speculate that one reason why practically all great civilizations of the past have declined after a few generations of “climax� is because families have nearly always used their increased prosperity to turn over the rearing of their children to slaves or other dependents, who “spoil� the children, or keep them dependent too long. For a time a civilization may draw its leaders with high n Achievement from the periphery, from portions of the society which have not as yet become wealthy enough to support slaves, but if the prosperity becomes too general, the effect may be to diminish the number of children with high n Achievement below some critical point needed to maintain the civilization. (pg. 12

McClelland does not deal with the issue of n Achievement and the military, or attitudes toward the military. However, a cursory look at the rise and fall of any society from the Roman Empire to England indicates that there was first a shortage of males willing and able to defend their country, not a shortage of bankers, lawyers and priests.

The Baby Boomers emerged into young adults as the protestors to the Vietnam War from 1965 to 1975. It might be that this was simply a war that should not have been fought, and certainly the case for that can be made. It also might be argued that the elite students were more independent and intelligent and were rejecting a flawed concept for the Vietnam War: the protection of another country. The protests to the Vietnam War were led by students at the elite Ivy League universities and private colleges. They were not led by students attending public colleges and universities. As time passed, the elite Baby Boomers did not diminish in their contempt for American society. The war protesters became the multiculturalists, the free traders, the globalists and the open border advocates of the coming decades. The Baby Boomers acted implicitly and explicitly to reduce the United States to rubble. The word that the academics of this generation use is “deconstruction.�

Never had a generation of Americans felt so entitled to wealth and comfort and at the same time felt no obligation to defend or protect the society that gave it to them. The word most people use to describe such individuals of the affluent Baby Boomers is “spoiled brats.� This generation invented new rights monthly and new entitlements daily, but these were never matched by any thought that they had any reciprocal obligations.

The significant change in attitudes toward the Unites States and the drop in n Achievement probably extended beyond the generation born from 1946-1964, but how many years, or decades, beyond that remains a question. One thing does seem certain as the fruits of the social and political changes brought about by the Baby Boomers drives the United States into economic catastrophe, the current generation of young people and college students is not entering the world into a era of prosperity, but an era of instability and uncertainty.

Certainly, in lectures I have given at colleges, globalization, outsourcing and immigration are great worries of college students. This generation of college students is far less likely to join in the deconstruction of American society because they have experienced economic decline, not the expansive level of wealth of the post-WWII generation. They take outsourcing, loss of manufacturing and the massive numbers of immigrants into the country as serious challenges. When you talk to the older Baby Boomers they talk of the wonders of multiculturalism and how we live in a globalized world. They completely ignore the fact that their children and future generations face a bleak future that they have created. In contrast, college students speak of their fears of the globalized world and the future lack of jobs.

It would be possible to conduct a long study of the decline in achievement in the American culture of the Baby Boomer Generation, but that is beyond the scope of this work. However, here is a brief example. In the catalog of 1961, the President of the Hamilton College, Robert Ward McEwen, reflects the views of his achievement orientation, stressing the qualities of the student and the need to pass on the cultural and intellectual heritage of the culture to the next generation. He speaks of dreams ambitions and goals. In short, while lacking specifics, it is high in achievement imagery.

…the essence of the matter is still to bring together young men of ability and ambition, young men of serious purpose who want to do something useful with themselves, with older men of deeper knowledge, riper wisdom, broad sympathy and some personal convictions about the business of living, which they believe worth sharing.

In 2005, Hamilton’s website makes a statement that surrenders achievement and individual accomplishment to getting along with others. Achievement, accomplishment and drive to succeed are put aside and the need for affiliation becomes paramount.

Above all, students should develop respect for intellectual and cultural diversity because such respect promotes free and open inquiry, independent thought and mutual understanding.

It is doubtful that the values of colleges and universities have much influence on the overall attitudes of the students at those colleges for any generation. They may reinforce existing attitudes or they may be completely ignored. Certainly, the affluent Baby Boomers completely ignored their classes in Western Civilization or American history. The levels of n Achievement are set in youth. Groups or individuals with low self-reliance and low need for achievement are not going to be influenced by courses on the glory and achievement of the United States.

The efforts of the Baby Boomer Generation were to deconstruct the United States. It would no longer be a country, but rather a place on the map in a globalized world. This deconstruction was and is a three-pronged attack: cultural, economic and demographic.

Beyond anything America had ever seen, the affluent children of the Baby Boomer generation engaged in an unmatched hedonism of sex, drugs and rock and roll, and a distinct rejection of every value held by their parents who were the generation that fought WWII. Divorce rates soared and marriage was seen as an option among various acceptable life styles.

The cultural attack was in a word “multiculturalism.� The stated purpose of multiculturalism was to promote a greater tolerance for minorities; the actual purpose was to destroy American civilization with relentless attacks on the Christian religion, the Constitution of the United States, marriage, the nation’s economic stability and the validity of the United States. Academics and cultural elites began proclaiming the virtues of multiculturalism and the objective of an education was diversity. The colleges and universities of the United States were the leaders in imposing the doctrine of multiculturalism in the 1990’s because the academics were now the affluent Baby Boomer Generation that had protested on the nation’s college campuses.

This unheralded promotion of a new utopian society, of course, flies in the face of the fact that every society that achieved cultural, political or military prominence was not diversified, but homogenous. It is not that the dangers of the multicultural world were not recognized. Richard Bernstein’s Dictatorship of Virtue: multiculturalism and the Battle for America’s Future published in 1995 was a sound warning of the troubled waters that lay ahead. He clearly pointed out that the multiculturalists cared little for any other culture, but were using diversity and multiculturalism as a way of empowering like-minded people to impose their values on American society.

Stephen Spielberg is the film director whose works best reflects the dependent psychology of the Boomer Generation. Spielberg’s first work was Jaws where a malevolent nature is exemplified by a shark that terrorized the population. Then he made ET where a visitor from space was an infantile creature yet had magical powers and was capable of building wondrous space ships. This extraterrestrial had to be protected by a pre-adolescent boy because the “authorities� wanted to kill or capture it. In Spielberg’s ET world, the adults are threatening, not protecting. Notably, in this film, the adult male of the family is not present to protect his family. The parents are divorced. Adults in Spielberg’s world are not competent, self-reliant individuals but terrified, destructive or missing.

Private Ryan is Spielberg’s rewriting of the accomplishments of the WWII generation. The motive of the soldiers as seen by the mission of an army captain is to rescue Private Ryan. On the unlikely premises that the U.S. Army could not find a soldier in its ranks, an Army officer risks the lives of his soldiers in the search for Private Ryan. It might be noted, that the American army both feeds its soldiers and regularly gets them their mail. A lost solider for any length of time is implausible, if not impossible.

Ostensibly written to eulogize the soldiers of WWII, it does nothing of the sort. It undermines their patriotism to the United States and willingness to risk and give their lives in its defense. Millions of Americans fought for in World War II, but it was not to enable their buddies to go home to their mother.

The elites of the Baby Boomer Generation never think of themselves as cowards. “Cowardice� and “bravery� are just not in their vocabularies. The “Me Generation� has no internal or external sense of conduct beside whatever it could get away with. Concern for the poor or minorities was nothing more than a scam to gain political and social power. The Me Generation’s total amorality from Bill Clinton to the Enron scandals was simply appalling to the average American. President Bill Clinton to this day does not understand why anyone might be upset with him.

The Free Trade economists led the economic attack of the affluent Baby Boomers. The United States had built the largest, most successful economy under the protectionist policies of Alexander Hamilton. Up until the 1970’s these were the economic policies of the Republican Party.

1912 Republican Party Platform: We reaffirm our belief in a protective tariff. The Republican tariff policy has been of the greatest benefit to the country, developing our resources, diversifying our industries, and protecting our workmen against competition with cheaper labor abroad, thus establishing for our wage-earners the American standard of living. The protective tariff is so woven into the fabric of our industrial and agricultural life that to substitute for it a tariff for revenue only would destroy many industries and throw millions of our people out of employment. The products of the farm and of the mine should receive the same measure of protection as other products of American labor.

With the affluent Baby Boomers in charge, American business went from being “American business� to “multinational� companies willing to use the cheapest labor anywhere in the world. Americans got a taste of Free Trade economics, with outsourcing, Made in China and listening to workers in India answer the phone for American Express. Free Trade was a magic economic theory for the Baby Boomers. No matter how much damage, no many how many jobs lost, no matter how many factories closed in the United States, it was all-wonderful because in their utopian, delusional, globalized world, “Everything always works out for the better.� Secure in their jobs in the higher reaches of business, academia and the professions, the affluent Baby Boomers could enjoy the benefits of buying goods made at slave-wage labor costs, with no personal loss of job security. The destruction of the American economy for future generations is no concern to the Baby Boomers, as long as the price of the stock they own keeps going up.

If one had to devise a plan to suck dry the economy of a country, one could not do any better than Free Trade. When the average American objected to the loss of jobs and financial security, the answer was “We now live in a globalized world, so get used to lower pay.� This was all coming from the educated elites in business, finance, academia and the media who did not have to worry about being replaced by a Chinese peasant on an assembly line.

NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) was the high watermark of the Free Trade movement. Passed by President Clinton, it indicated that the U.S. Government no longer had any responsibility to the economic welfare of the American people, but rather, increasing shareholder returns by using cheap foreign labor was the economic goal. Despite the objections of the labor unions and the American people, NAFTA was passed into law by the Democratic administration that had aligned itself with the multinational corporations.

The demographic attack on the United States started with the Immigration Act of 1965. The sponsors of this act promised that the total immigration into the United States would not change but the provisions for family unification resulted in an immigration of over one million per year. When it was obvious that there was over a million legal immigrants coming in per year, nothing was done.

Starting with President Bill Clinton and carried further by President George Bush the United States dropped the protection of the southern border of the United States. Internal enforcement of workplace laws was abandoned and an unabated stream of illegal immigrants flowed into the United States.

The elite, affluent children of Baby Boomers had their goal the destruction of the United States, the American civilization and the economic existence of the country. They have almost, but not quite, succeeded. Since they live in a bubble of their own self-complaisance, they have no real knowledge, experience or imagination to understand that others actually might harm them. Terrorists are misunderstood and criminals are but misguided. Nor, do they understand that the multicultural world of the Sorbonne is not the multicultural world of massive immigration, lowered living standards and a declining culture.

Yet, the influence of the affluent Baby Boomers is coming to an abrupt halt. The damage they have inflicted will be repaired and the United States will resume its position as the premier nation of the world; free, economically prosperous and proud of its traditions and history. This will not be brought about by the affluent Baby Boomers and multiculturalist, but by the nationalistic, patriots that are willing to take their case directly to the American people.

The Minuteman Operation led by Jim Gilchrist and Chris Simcox on the Arizona Border in April 2005 was a historic and monumental event in American history. It demonstrated the frustration the American people were having with the rule of the elite Baby Boomers. President George Bush steadfastly refused to protect the border and instead offered an Open Borders country with his various amnesty schemes. The American people were having none of that. Immigration will unseat a number of legislators in 2006 and a strong border control President will be elected in 2008.

Americans have realized that globalization is a giant fraud. They have realized that cheap prices at Wal-Mart are not worth the loss of job security and high income manufacturing jobs. Not since the French Revolution has a social, economic class so turned its back on the lives and struggles of the average American. “Let them eat globalization,’ is the cry of the Wall Street Journal and the supporters of the destruction of the American society. Americans have rejected that.

Americans are also rejecting the valueless, anti-Christian efforts of the Baby Boomer elites in media, government and academia. The average American is winning the cultural war. After decades of anti-Christian and anti-Christmas political attack, the average American is striking back. It is not the “Holiday Season;� it is “Christmas.�

“It ain’t over till its over,� said Yogi Berra. In this case, “It ain’t over, because it’s just begun,� as Americans fight to restore their culture, their borders and their economic prosperity.

Paul Streitz
Director
CT Citizens for Immigration Control
ctcic@optonline.net

As a quintessential Baby Boomer I wish to highlight a minute portion of the article:

"elite Baby Boomers"

Please note the "elite."

I am convinced that classism is alive and well within the Union and that the lower-paid working classes are bearing the economic and social brunt of some sort of collective "white guilt" held by our elite ruling class; whether those rulers are in politics or corporate governance.

Blend in some basic greed and lust for power along with that white guilt and we see economic and social decline as jobs leave and mega-millions enter the USA.

The writers of these article-types also tend to be college educated and often from middle-class and above upbringings. Those folks tend to forget the many millions of us born into blue collar families and raised without many of the benefits that even a modest amount of wealth can provide.

On a related theme; one reason I enjoyed the Roseanne TV sit-com so much was that the main characters were "common folk" facing common folk problems. A rare portrayal in a country where the common folk are too-often ignored. Look at TV offerings. Dynasty, OC, 90210, lawyers, doctors, over and over folks of more than modest income, typically members of the upper classes (as compared to us lowly blue collar folk).

Starting to ramble...... such a complex subject. Thousands of books are available covering this general area. It is so difficult to cover even a minute portion of the general topic in a brief message board posting.

Sigh..................................

I think that the baby boomers that are most responsible for what has happened to this country over the past 30 years are the early wave ones who went to college in the late 1960's through the middle 70's. That was my time there, so I saw it happening first hand.

Because of Viet Nam, there was a huge anti-American faction on campus then, mainly made up of those in the soft sciences and liberal arts programs.

It was the time when ethnic stidies programs were granted full academic status, rather than being a subset of the poly sci or sociology departments.

Even way back then, the hatred that came out of those departments was astonishing in it's virulence and racism.

Over time, these people have moved into positions of power while maintaining their fierce hatred of the US and contempt for those they don't deem to be among the elite.

So, no, it isn't all the baby boomers that are at fault, but it is quite a large minority that are.

If one had to devise a plan to suck dry the economy of a country, one could not do any better than Free Trade. When the average American objected to the loss of jobs and financial security, the answer was “We now live in a globalized world, so get used to lower pay.� This was all coming from the educated elites in business, finance, academia and the media who did not have to worry about being replaced by a Chinese peasant on an assembly line.

Well...little do they realize that in a truly globalized world of world tyranny, once the "sell job" is over, the Globalists will have little need for the "educated elites in business, finance, academia and the media". Only Globalists will be in business because they will own all business. Only Globalists will count the money and handle the "finances" because they will have all the money. Only Globalists will have an "academia", their own to record their achievements and salute themselves when their latest "concept' destroys yet another piece of our planet. And the "media"....I ask you, how many "media" did Adolph have in his Nazi World? Right. World tyrannists have no need for "media" with their pesky little inquiries, investigations, exposes, reports...THAT WOULD NOT BE GOOD FOR GLOBALIST "BIDNESS". So all you Traitors in business, finance, academia and the media--get ready for your own Drone Dorm Cell 7894837; with the number tattooed to your forehead; a tracking chip installed in your cranium; and a GMO Mush Bowl handed to ya--for your own One Gray Scoop A Day.

And you thought you were safe by betraying your fellow Americans. As I recall, there were those same folks around 60 years ago in a place called Nazi Germany that thought the same thing. Same betrayal; same outcome; and the same Americans are gonna kick your butts all the way back to MARS!!

Starting with President Bill Clinton and carried further by President George Bush the United States dropped the protection of the southern border of the United States. Internal enforcement of workplace laws was abandoned and an unabated stream of illegal immigrants flowed into the United States.

Actually, the plan started with Bush One with his New World Order which is David Rockefeller's and some other OLD MONEY folks' conspired dream of Ruling the World. David of course is 91 now and not a BabyBoomer...so it took all types and all ages from all places to pull this off.

Americans have realized that globalization is a giant fraud. They have realized that cheap prices at Wal-Mart are not worth the loss of job security and high income manufacturing jobs. Not since the French Revolution has a social, economic class so turned its back on the lives and struggles of the average American. “Let them eat globalization,’ is the cry of the Wall Street Journal and the supporters of the destruction of the American society. Americans have rejected that.

And Globalism is a Giant Fraud indeed and truly!!

And what American wouldn't reject something so mean and ugly???

“It ain’t over till its over,� said Yogi Berra. In this case, “It ain’t over, because it’s just begun,� as Americans fight to restore their culture, their borders and their economic prosperity.

Y E S

GO AMERICA!!

GO AMERICA!!

You can do this America.

Remember:

Who You Are and What You Were Born To Do.

You were born to preserve the United States.

It is our destiny and like all generations of Americans, WE will fulfill it.

Oh yes, indeedy. WE will fulfill our Destiny and Preserve the United States.

And when WE're done and eating Cake Again....Jorge, Dick, Condi, Don, Carlos, Alberto, Janet, Michelle, etc. will be eating Feces...they're own....recyled....very high in protein and mixed with tasty and delicious gray tinted sticky stiff GMO Mush, their favorite that they planted all over the world for US to eat, as they lounge on concrete, the hardest concrete man has ever made, in their 80/20 Polyester/Fiberglass Blend Orange Jumpsuits that keep them in a sweat and scratchin' 24/7/365 and make all their butts look big.

And from time to time, at least monthly, WE'll visit our Traitors, have play time so they don't feel lost and forgotten, and hold the Biggest Meanest Tomato Toss in the History of Modern Civilization!!

Oh yeeeeah, WE're serious, and as most of you know, I can barely wait for:

"Play Time with Traitors at the Penal House"!!

It's really what keeps me goin'!!

Lets Ride.

I read most of the article, dman, but I just really didn't agree with it. I was born in 1944 so technically am not a part of the Baby Boomers though I don't know WHY because I was conceived when my father came home on leave. Anyway--from the way I see it, my CHILDREN's generation are the SPOILED ONES. Just among my friends, I don't see the lack of a work ethic in our generation. I consider my children's generation--those born from the mid- 60's on to be the ME generation. I REALLY don't see the baby boomer generation being a self-absorbed generation. And, I was born to an "elite", white-collar family where my mother stayed home and raised children, etc. But, we SURE weren't handed THINGS hand-over-fist UNLIKE the generation that followed AND the generation of my GRANDSON who is now 15.

obbop _ I agree with your response - classism in our culture- those who can afford ivy league educations can afford to be open borders [ idiots!] and Roseanne- wow there will never be another show as honest and funny as that show!
the poor and the working class never shared in Clinton's boom times- it was worse not better-

The article makes some good points but the emphasis on the Baby Boomers being responsible for Globalism is too general.

Globalism in the US started over 40 years ago by David Rockefeller who is part of the Bildenbergers, who founded that infernal traitorous Council on Foreign Relations; who developed the World Trade Center concept for New York City...and for whose father, George H W Bush's father worked as the family attorney.

David Rockefeller is 91. This is his deal. Along with his Old Money friends from around the Globe.

Globalism is not a Baby Boomer invention.

Globalism in the US is an Old Money, Old America, Old Europe invention.

Did Baby Boomers sign on? Yes. But at first idealistically. To love the world, to help the world, to make the world a better place--not to enrich the Rockefellers or anyoneo else.

Did Baby Boomers get suckered in? Yes. Somewhat spoiled and the most gifted, well educated, well financed generation in American History saw horizons and were easily "snookered" and "duped" into being Pawns of these Pricks. Clinton is one.

The Baby Boomers are the ones voting in the polls; calling the CongressCritters; fleeing from the infested areas; and watching their lives and jobs and futures go up in smoke.

The Baby Boomers are part of America that will like every generation of Americans step to the plate and play this game until it's won or the Fat Lady Sings.

55,000 Baby Boomers died in Viet Nam for an ideal that could not be achieved ever without a declaration of war by the President and Congress. Hundreds of thousands of other Baby Boomers said, "we don't want our fellow Americans dying for a goal they will never achieve."

Viet Nam has nothing whatsoever to do with the task at hand and the writer should not have gone there.

But, he has also gone to a place where we need writers to go. He has gone to that evil place callled Globalism, exposed it as the Giant Fraud it is, and linked it directly to immigration.

Bootsie, you are a Baby Boomer in my book. And you can boom with me any time.

Actually, Globalism was not invented by Baby Boomers or Real Americans or Americans. It was invented thousands of years ago by a human characteristic called "lust for power, control and assets".

It's not new, it's ancient.

It's not American, it's human.

It's not good, it's pure ugly evil.

After WWII, Eisenhower had the words "under God" added to our Pledge of Allegiance....for a reason. We added the words "In God We Trust' to our money.....for a reason.

Let's not forget that reason. As we march forward to fulfill our destiny lets remember that we are a nation under God and in God WE trust. God, a power beyond man, has led the United States for 230 years and HE will continue to do so as long as He believes our planet is worth saving.

It is our destiny.

Lets fulfill it....and get these turds out of our government!!

Thanks, Judy. I never DID understand why I wasn't considered a Baby Boomer. I THOUGHT it was children of men who fought in WW II. Just because my Daddy had a LEAVE before his discharge and got my mother pregnant THEN shouldn't mean I'm not a BABY BOOMER. AND, TONS of my friends were conceived the same way. SO, I appreciate you finally giving me the recognition I so RICHLY DESERVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!