Blame the Boomers? Where Did America Go Wrong?

The Gatsby Generation and the downside to material abundance

It’s a common refrain, which the Baby Boomers now take as an insult.

Ok boomer!

The generation that told people don’t trust anyone over 35 is now in their 60s and 70s.

They hate when you discuss their faults as a generation, they hate being seen as old, and more than anything they hate handing over any amount of power and control.

The baby boomers are the most discussed generation of all time, and perhaps the most misunderstood as well.

On the one hand, the boomers mostly vote Republican and without their votes America would have elected Hillary Clinton. Free speech, the 2nd Amendment, and any hope for the nation would be gone.

On the other hand, the boomers can’t seem to distinguish between which Republicans are doing anything right. Trump and his boomer base of supporters have a near pathological inability to learn from past mistakes.

Why are the boomers so reluctant to hand over the keys of power to the next generations?

For one, the generation that followed the boomers largely failed to show up. I call Gen X the absentee generation. The current mainstream Gen X challenger to Trump’s throne is Ron DeSantis, whose public speeches are patterned on Trump and who insiders say Trump had to strongarm into running for Florida’s governor to begin with. DeSantis is largely a pale imitation of Trump with less charisma, a perfect analogy for Gen X’s relationship with the boomers.

On the other hand, Gen X does offer a potential leader that has Spirit and cares about the country. But the boomers are blind to Ye, and here’s why.

The Boomers were handed the most material abundance of any generation in history. They were also handed spiritual poverty that reduced them to seeking God through psychedelics, rock music, and the airy musings of their own minds.

So who raised the boomers? What conditions led to this spiritual poverty and left a generation living in an abundant country they didn’t create?

Almost nobody ever discusses the men who ruled the decades of 1910 - 1930. And they are the decadent generation that set America up for failure.

Between 1910 - 1930, America created the disastrous Federal Reserve banking system, the IRS, the welfare state, sent 100,000 men to die and overturn Europe’s balance of power by entering World War 1, and gave women the right to vote.

These men had unprecedented material abundance. They had widespread electricity, the radio, and automobiles.

They were Americans drunk on success, obsessed with themselves and their opulence. I call them the Gatsby generation.

Do they sound familiar? The Gatsby generation sounds much like the boomers. And under their stewardship of the country, the spiritual foundation of America began to falter.

The natural order of God, with men leading women, and women taking care of children, was thrown into disarray.

Perhaps it is inevitable, for a generation that inherits so much wealth to worship material abundance instead of God.

Perhaps we should not demonize their easy stumble.

Mercifully viewed or not though, the Gatsby generation’s indulgences led to the Great Depression (which the Boomers later mirrored with the 2008 mortgage crisis), and their lack of care for their country ultimately led America into two world wars.

The “Greatest Generation” that fought and won World War II created the idyllic 50s that many Americans long for now.

But even that time was fraught with the spiritual poverty the Gatsby Generation handed down through their celebration of material abundance.

And these conditions bring us to today. The Boomers were raised with the spiritual poverty of the 20s and the material abundance of the 50s. They mortgaged the country while outsourcing manufacturing to China. The absentee Gen Xers filled the assistant seats the Boomers had available, but never fought for power. The millennials were left to fight for scraps at the table. And Gen Z is almost completely alone in wilderness.

But there is a path forward.

Gen X does have a champion fighting to return God to the equation. His name is Ye. And Ye is informed by the based millennial strategist Ali Alexander. And the Gen Z free thinkers rejecting the mainstream Satanism and algorithmic controlled opposition are finding the call to action.

The only question that remains - will the Boomers finally hand over the keys?