Thread by @Delafina777

ooooh, this is a SAVAGE piece on Boomers but like THANK YOU for calling out how they take credit for the Civil Rights era despite being, y'know, children during it.

huffpost.com/entry/baby-boo…

"[W]hite, middle-class boomers―are, both individually and as a group, unusually sociopathic. Gibney cites mental health data showing boomers have significantly higher levels of antisocial traits and behaviors―including lack of empathy, disregard for others, egotism & impulsivity"

"As a result, boomers have used their substantial voting power to create a society and government that don’t work very well. Or, as Gibney puts it, boomers’ 'private behaviors congealed into a debased neoliberalism.'"

"We have an enormous amount of data about the boomer mainstream, and it matches up surprisingly well with the description of antisocial personality disorder."

#NotAllBoomers, of course, but the vast majority of the middle-class, white ones:

"I focus mainly on the white, middle-class boomers who constitute the substantial majority of the boom ― it’s a pretty homogenous group, and they were raised in a fairly homogenous way."

"And this is the only thing that Trump and Clinton could agree on: Social Security ― untouchable. Medicare ― untouchable. These things are sacred. They couldn’t even agree where to stand on the stage together, and they agreed on Social Security."

"Some of the pushback I’ve gotten on the book is people saying, well, didn’t boomers do all these wonderful things, like fighting for civil rights? But there’s no way that chronology works out."

"The Voting Rights Act and Civil Rights Act were 1964 and 1965, and only the very oldest boomers could have voted for the congressmen who pushed through that act. So they played no part in those foundational victories. What we have seen instead is the Voting Rights Act gutted."