Topic: the chicken or the egg

[whimsicalmamapig]

after reading the posting by Rickz about pain for the milleniums I was struck with a thought.... which came first, the progressive/liberalist long range plan to infiltrate all levels of government and bureaucracy or the baby boomers that would enable it?  Could this current situation have occurred without the self-obsessed, spoiled children of the greatest generation. If our parents hadn't been so ardent to give us boomers the best in the world, could the socialists have done as much damage.

did the greatest generation create the worst generation?

ps I am a boomer

[Glock32]

It came before the Baby Boomers. They were just the first generation fully raised in it. They were preceded by the "Greatest Generation", who were indeed great in so many ways, but they lurrrrved them some Social Security and FDR.

I suppose if you really want to trace this chicken/egg conundrum back to its beginnings, it goes back to Satan tempting Eve with the forbidden fruit. Something-for-nothing is at the root of every gimmick since.

[RickZ]

Progressivism started before the 20th Century.  Teddy Roosevelt was a progressive.  Wilson was a progressive.  Progressives are communists by another name.  Communism has been around since Marx and Engels in the 1860's.

Read up on Antonio Gramsci, and "his theory of cultural hegemony, which describes how states use cultural institutions to maintain power in capitalist societies."  Gramsci's theories were part of the Long March Though the Institutions, where progressives worked overtime to change/destroy cultural institutions, as we see BHO do on a regular basis (see:  BHO's utter disdain for our military and his destruction of it as a cultural institution).  Destroy the culture and you destroy the society.  Destroy the society and anything can happen, including the populace clamoring for Big Daddy Government to save them.  And that is exactly what the progressives want, to be the knights in shining armor riding in on a big white horse to save the day -- and institute totalitarian policies like green energy crap and climate change laws based upon nothing more than a not so educated guess.

Baby Boomers have played their progressive part, but they only came along post-WWII to about 1965.  The racist Margaret Sanger, of Planned Parenthood fame, was a progressive from the early 20th Century.