P.J. O'Rourke on Millennials and Baby Boomers

"Just this whole process of going through the baby boom's history, I began to realize what a nicer society-kinder, more decent society-that we live in today than the society when I was a kid," says P.J. O'Rourke, best-selling author of Holidays in Hell, Parliament of Whores, and many other titles.
O'Rourke sat down with Reason's Nick Gillespie at Freedom Fest 2014 in Las Vegas to discuss his new book, The Baby Boom: How it Got That Way and It Wasn't My Fault and I'll Never Do it Again. As the father of three kids born between 1997 and 2004, he also lays down some thoughts about millennials, noting that they live in a much nicer, more tolerant world than the one in which he grew up. "I don’t think my 10-year old boy has ever been in a fist fight," says O'Rourke, who was born in 1947. "I mean there might be a little scuffling but I don’t think he’s has ever had that kind of violent confrontation that was simply part of the package when I was a kid."
He also feels that the internet "fragments information" in a way that destroys the sweep of history, at least at first. "You end up with mosaic information," he says. "Now, I think over time the kids put these mosaics together but I don’t think the internet itself lends itself to the sweep of history."
The interview also includes a tour of O'Rourke's long and varied career in journalism, from his humble beginnings writing for an underground alt-weekly to his time as editor of National Lampoon and his incredible work as a foreign correspondent for Rolling Stone to his current position as columnist at the Daily Beast.
A prominent libertarian, O'Rourke also discusses the difficulties in selling a political philosophy devoted to taking power away from politicians.
"If libertarianism were easy to explain and if it weren't so easy to exaggerate the effects of libertarianism-people walking around with 'Legalize Heroin!' buttons and so on-I think it would've been done already," says O'Rourke. "But the problem is, of course, is that libertarianism isn't political. It's anti-political, really. It wants to take things out of the political arena."
About 35 minutes. Edited by Zach Weissmueller. Interview by Nick Gillespie. Shot by Meredith Bragg, Jim Epstein, and Weissmueller. Music by Antiqcool.
For full transcript, links, downloadable versions, and more, visit reason.com/reasontv/2014/08/26... and subscribe to Reason TV's KZbin channel for daily content like this.

[@vwalsh63]

As a baby boomer myself, with some experience dealing with WW2 guys, I can say with some authority that those gentlemen were at least 5 gajjion times as tough. When those guys bought a car the owner's manual explained how to adjust the valves. Now it reminds you not to drink the battery

[@alanaadams7440]

Lol 😂😂😂😂 good one or eat Tide Pods

[@theproplady]

I think he's wrong about the world being a nicer place today. We may have been trained to behave ourselves in a public sphere thanks to public education and shaping by the media, but the old hatreds and tribalism still simmer below the surface. All this big push for "diversity" did was make the community even more fractured and tribal. At some point, Whitey is going to realize that NO amount of effort on their part is going to improve the lives of minorities or make them more appreciative. And there will be anger. If resources ever become scare or there's a societal collapse, this country will probably explode along racial/tribal/generational lines. This is what happens when you place "being nice" as the highest value of a society. When people don't feel like being nice anymore, it all collapses.

[@bradhart2033]

theproplady Your right there is more hate now especially on the internet.

[@arbitrarysequence]

I think the internet just made it more visible and anonymity emboldened people to say what the really think. But I'm not sure I see anyone saying things on the internet now that I didn't hear in private homes and clubs and bars and churches in the 70's.

[@teresaweston520]

theproplady I

[@darylgud7601]

@@NrthEastOHsk8 Show me some group that has not been oppressed, even among whites. The Irish were the first slaves in America. Show me how a group in America was falsely imprisoned. Poisoned who? Don't tell me the Indians, as if we ran a germ warfare campaign against them before we knew what germs were and how they were transmitted. What we have abandoned is the principles of the constitution and now are voting for socialism. Or at least some in our society have and now vote in people more for what the politician will give them instead of how the politician will safe guard the constitution and its principles.

[@darylgud7601]

@@NrthEastOHsk8 Who is suffering now and is it because of an American policy, if so which one? I don't believe you that you have seen any writings by settlers and blankets. Most settlers were not educated and certainly not to a degree that they understood medicine. As for the black plague, do we blame the Asians that brought over the disease to Europe, was it genicide by the Asians? No and why not, because they didn't understand how it was transmitted and neither did settlers know that blankets could carry a disease called small pox. Do you really think that settlers would handle small pox infested blankets, if they knew. No because it was dangerous to them as well. What about the locking up of innocent people in America? it sounds like you are making stuff up to justify your hate for America?

[@karlnord1429]

love you guys great interview

[@paularmes5909]

I am so happy to be part of a generation that had to unlock the door when I came home from school sweep and mop the floor do the dishes cook my own dinner wash my own clothes this is made me a self-reliant productive Gen X ER.😎

[@ablethreefourbravo]

It's fun to watch interviews from before things went crazy in 2015.

[@Liberty4Ever]

Don't worry about using up all of the weird. We'll make more.

[@Technoguy3]

I was confused on that point. Clearly he is well aware of how the Internet has affected the Millenials... But obviously he hasn't visited the weird part of the Internet yet. I'm sure it would blow his mind.

[@davidschlessinger9945]

Gen X always gets overlooked. We were the ones screwed the hardest. We have to take care of our "entitled" boomer parents. Also what about the Silent Generation?

[@CalebBlock]

+Chris Cunningham they are pretty quiet about it.

[@TomeOfKnowledge009]

David Schlessinger remember how gen x was kicked out of the house once we hit 18? no one cares about gen x. even though we will be the ones to fix this mess. we are the self reliant individuals that neither the boomers, nor the millenials are. because of gen x and our ingenuity, no one is worried about the upcoming boomer retirement, they assume we will fix it for em. we were after all able to take care of ourselves quite fantastically considering the shit pile weve been left with.

[@ultrasonicpriest]

Gen X is "Boomers v2.0. Bolstered by the 90's tech boom and, as other early adopters of technology, they grabbed the low hanging fruit. having your worldview shaped by the events of the 90's and early 00's, and compared with the economy faced by today's college grads, Gen X sounds very self-pitying. Sorry if you weren't alert enough or too wrapped up in fantasies of circus sideshows and other Boomeresque creative hanger-on tactics to catch the wave of the tech boom. It's no wonder the Milennial generation thinks socialism isn;t so bad -- raised by self-entitled boomers and preceded by Gen_X computer nerd slackers who lucked out when the internet boom came, life seems unfair.

[@stargate1935]

you are absolutely right david i just posted this before seeing your comment what about generation x we are the children of the baby boomers not the millennials the millennials are are children something wrong about what im seeing

[@jennyharris8642]

So sick of the whiners.

[@alanaadams7440]

My father graduated from MIT as engineer I was shocked to see that I was making much more as a nurse and babyboomer. But my parents saved a lot more and parlayed their money into much more

[@steveanton763]

How were they able to do that while raising children?

[@MrUndersolo]

As a Gen-Xer raised by a father born in the late twenties and a mother born in the middle of WWII, I appreciate everything Mr. O'Rourke has written and said. But I think that my generation needs its own true humourist... Not many good ones around...

[@MrUndersolo]

Funky Euphemism I like most of your list - but Sandler? Oh, I love Bill Hicks, butbhe isn’t here anymore. And we need people who can point out the differences between the generations the way O’Rourke does.

[@humanentity5890]

@@MrUndersolo Don't reply to your own comments. They will flag you as mentally ill.

[@sherrin1555]

"It's been years since I've seen a bar fight" he says... ummmmm... yeah, probably because it's been years since you've been in that kind of bar, P.J

[@riphihe]

@@chipcook5346 well put.

[@S.J.L]

I got in a first fight in the parking lot of a small town Kentucky biker bar for leaning on a guys minivan. It can still happen but to your point you have to really want it now a days or just be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Cosmic turnings.

[@Stillseeingreen]

I would think Mogadishu would be a better argument for avoiding a failed state than it would be for avoiding a contractual society

[@TomeOfKnowledge009]

Brett Lewis and chaos should never be confused for anarchy.

[@davidahlstrom7533]

KZbin -- Please post the posted date and (if available), the recording date of the video.

[@MrGloriousg]

PJ O Rourke, “We are the clean up crew to parties, we were to young to attend. Goodness gracious me!”

[@brucec43]

PJ lives in a white bread isolated world. The kids his kid is at school with are the children of people who live in $1M plus homes. Let's see PJ go to a concert, a bar, or even Disney World, where regular people go, and see how kind everyone is to each other.

[@riphihe]

@Bruno Ta Ta so fucking what! whats your fucking point?!?

[@Freightorious]

Yes, dont service the elderly, dont call 911, dont do cpr, dont take shit from em. Tell them directly we cannot wait for them to parish so we dont have to honor their pensions and entitlements. Global crises solved.

[@wheeloffortunefortune]

You forgot to add his IQ was 40-60 points higher than yours

[@MrGloriousg]

Millenials, are so lucky that their parents went to rehab before they were born!

[@LMays-cu2hp]

Thank you.

[@riphihe]

19:24 Damn that makes me feel old!!! My son was born in 96, and my daughter was born in 2002. I'm 45. too lazy right now to look up PJ's age.

[@codestud3]

He's guilty of classism.

[@acajudi100]

I was born in 1942, and raised to be moral, work hard, travel, and get an education. I was told to help non- beggars out of my excess. Not with Medicare stealing our SS COLA, genocide in Chicago, high rents, utilities etc. I will work online, or may become a politician, or move to a cheaper country. I worked from 7-70. I travelled and helped people. I helped people so saved very little, because I generously helped others and travelled from 20-72.

[@seththomas9105]

Gen X has tried to work with what the Boomer swarm of locusts left us, and that wasn't much. NAFTA, the 70's, disco, Reganism, etc. and the 90's weren't great for everyone. The economy in the rural Midwest has sucked for 35 years now and ain't getting any better.

[@dr2407]

Seth Thomas you forgot aids

[@deanbagley3316]

hhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalol good stuff,, funny,,, they really did " eat it all up"

[@keeperlit.leterrip7722]

How come it is OK to generalize about an entire generation in this day and age when those exact same people who do so are the ones who will tell you to not stereotype anyone for any reason.

[@MrGloriousg]

PJ O Rourke, what do you think about the constant stream of school shootings going on?

[@babyboomertrivia]

Boomers amassed debt, many won't reap the benefits, if any, from Social Security either.

[@karenmossbryan7932]

“Parliament of Whores,” subtitled “A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government” published in 1991

[@ibozopodcast]

When are you going to make your videos accessible to the deaf community? Here's just one sample auto-generated closed caption from this interview: "Naturals anything else to do Road still be brushed towards the end over." This is a disservice to the deaf community. Please start captioning your videos intelligibly.

[@billmartins5545]

You could start a charity and collect funds or volunteers to caption media.

[@erin19030]

Being poor is a spirit of the mind and character. Having more money than you need when others have little is a sin on your soul for all times. May you..... the rich burn in hell with all your paper dollars.

[@judyde]

"Extern-IA-lities"? I don't think that's a word. I assume he means "externalities."

[@johnadams-wp2yb]

I am a boomer and thank my lucky stars. I traveled the world and had good jobs, the best music and no AIDS shit. Fuck being young today.

[@DrCruel]

It was great to be a Boomer. They got to squeeze all the life out of the country and leave their debts and feces for their illegitimate children to inherit. Good times.

[@johnadams-wp2yb]

DrCruel You obviously weren't there.

[@DrCruel]

john adams Watching the Vietnam war on TV? The drug addicts and hippies? LBJ and Nixon being hounded by radicals? Returning vets being spit on? Gee. I seem to remember this sort of stuff.

[@johnadams-wp2yb]

DrCruel I am so sorry that those years brought you absolutely no pleasure whatsoever. Perhaps you were poor, and had a shit job? But, on the other hand, I had a great time. Sorry.

[@DrCruel]

john adams I agree. It was a great time for many, especially those who stayed back in the 'States and partied. Just not so great for those who followed. That was my point.

[@beauandme4evs]

Alcohol is the real gateway drug.......

[@justinbailey1756]

Alcohol is a civil right.

[@gordonallen8134]

~TheEquestrianFactor~ anyone who promotes alcohol or drug use (prescription legal & illegal) doesn’t care about other people. This road leads no where good 4 anyone ever.

[@booglegoo6526]

My hometown that once had a big steel mill complex had lots of bars'. The first department opened up in 1909. I heard a few stories about the bars like one bar owner having three son who became doctors. People joked about how drunks paid for their medical schools.

[@55strings55]

This is not an argument about the baby boomers, but an argument about young people in general. I remember when I was young, and stupid, and am amazed that I'm still alive. They won't say it like I do, but if they really think about it, they'll say the same thing.

[@KizoneKaprow]

*"libertarianism isn't political"* I've been a fan of O'Rourke since his National Lampoon days, and that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard him say. For not being "political," Reason sure spends a lot of time on politics. That's like a baker saying, "We're not about bread."

[@timothykuring3016]

There is a problem with the natural hope that a younger generation will observe the mistakes of a previous generation and make corrections. It is the drive for novel solutions, new drugs, new technologies, new fashions like polyamory. In stead of returning to traditional notions of how to deal with life's challenges, people seek to ramp up the novelty, try newer and wilder things - transhumanism, hooking their brains up to computers, etc. It's a runaway train with only one direction and the only change people think they can apply is more, bigger, faster - designer drugs for an edge against the competition, bigger outrages to capture the public imagination - selfies on the edge of an active volcano. Slowing down and reconnecting with true nature and community doesn't seem like a viable option. Fire up all cylinders and go out screaming against the falling darkness. The observations about the violence are true. I remember how anxious the other children seemed. They did really believe that they would be stars. If a kid played baseball, he had all the gear and the coaching, and he really believed he would be a professional ball player. It gave a mad edge to his playing. He strutted with insane arrogance when he succeeded, but he fell to inconsolable tantrums of crying when he missed a single play. His teammates would gang up on him, cussing him out and acting as if the world had come to an end - all because he dropped a ball or strike out. You could see something of that competitive brutality in the original Bad News Bears. No matter what sport or enthusiasm a child pursued, he thought he would be a star, and I think their parents put a lot of pressure on them. There was a pathological obsession with not being a loser. And the pressures seemed to erupt in astonishing acts of violence. I was a natural coward, and I had no desire to fight, but the fights always came looking for me and I was too slow to outrun them. They sometimes involved assaults with baseball bats and knives. But they were always bloody fights of attrition with closed fists that sometimes almost ended in murder before an adult would interfere. I still bear scars of so many fights from that era. But I am absolutely astonished to talk to young people who have never been in a fight. How I would have wished to live like that! And how impossible it was! Is it fluoride in the water, the ready availability of pot? What has made people so much more peaceful? Because it doesn't seem to be their raw character. I once saw an old video of a bunch of boys ganging up on a lone boy in the schoolyard. they were dragging him around like a ragdoll, hitting, kicking, and stomping him from one side of the playground to the other. It is like a scene out of a horror film, but it was not very uncommon in that era. I was like that kid, but more actively and brutally fighting back. At the time, it seemed like a life or death struggle, and in many ways it was. I had an out of body or possibly near-death experience in the first of many such fights. My poor little body was crushed beneath a pile of other boys who had jumped me from all sides, with everyone else, girls included, screaming "kill him! Kill him!" It was a wonder that teachers allowed such things to occur on school grounds. They often seemed to turn a blind eye until it was time to clean up the mess. And I only revived from that incident after the teachers had dug my limp body from beneath the pile and hurried with it back into the school. Every fight after that I believed was for my life and I could expect to be killed any day. That just came to seem normal. It never occurred to me to report assaults to the police. All I could do was fight my way out of them, and rejoice to be once again free, putting it instantly behind me.

[@dragonhold4]

@Timothy Kuring Underrated comment (the 1st paragraph at least. everything after went off rails)

[@timothykuring3016]

@@dragonhold4 When everyone's going off the rails, that's where you have to go to track them. Do you imagine for a minute that my entire statement is about dealing with people going off the rails just about all the time. A sane society enforces God's law, but our insane society encourages mischief and leaves us having to pick up the mess. Haven't you noticed things going off the rails all over the place. It keeps getting worse and it will get a lot worse until people stop sinning. I tell people how it is. Usually, they choose to go over the edge anyway. Geranamo and bon voyage on your way to the bottom.

[@lafeil]

Also when get alot cards off the table, but money issues coming to light that is cause long term problems. We can not have government take care of needs for ever.

[@coolworx]

21:10 I dunno, as an X'er born on the edge of the Boomer's tail, PokemanGo looks pretty G_D peculiar.

[@MrUndersolo]

“born on the edge of the Boomer’s tail”. - as a fellow GenX-er, I would like to use that in my own book on us one day. And does anyone notice that they do not talk about us as a generation anymore?

[@riphihe]

@@MrUndersolo yeah we Gen-Xers seem to just be skipped over, even when they named us.

[@ChayAaronStevenson11]

Absolutely disgusting!

[@bicyclist2]

Agreed!

[@damianbylightning6823]

Nicer, kinder society now - a consequence of taking lead out of fuel. Fist fights, broken noses, missing teeth and all that... In all developed societies violence has fallen. Things like that don't just fall out of the sky. Don't worry, violence and the industries it promotes can be imported. In Europe and America mass immigration has done a great job in keeping the violence industries going. I am sure there will be new and better ways to import or invent violence.

[@alanaadams7440]

I disagree most babyboomers we're more civil

[@MrGloriousg]

PJ O Rourke you are not the contents of your wallet.

[@otherlibrarian]

Ack! "Externialities." Nonononono ex-ter-nal-i-ties.

[@jaywarrenclark6263]

Ryan Deschamps: Well communication does take adequate externalities which we call words and basic grammar. Have you TOTB, with TBW?

[@paulaholdgate2995]

Killer dodge ball in elementary school in lieu of fist fights

[@MrGloriousg]

PJ O Rourke, say no to drugs. Just say no to drugs, unless that applies to you!

[@jemonaco]

I agree with much of what Mr. O'Rourke has interpreted. However, though we may be a kinder society from the perspective of minor physical violence (kid fist fights) , we are hardly civil when it comes to conversation. When reading the content of many blogs these days, it feels as though we may be just a short distance from a renewed Civil War.

[@NJGuy1973]

4:42 "Victorian inhibitions between the Depression and WW2, and to some extent the cold war." Queen Victoria died in 1901.

[@riphihe]

yeah so? Victorian inhibitions were a legacy, meaning they were around far longer than she was.

[@mersk100]

The Somalia canard? Failed Socialist State =/= Anarchy. And he claims to be Hayeakian? Self contradict much?

[@Bramicus]

There's no doubt about it: Our generation screwed the pooch.

[@KevinSmith-xt8xr]

Damn...

[@DonnieDarko1]

Excellent interview! An honest assessment and self criticism that i wish more in the liberal academic institutions would pay attention to and learn from.

[@djamesgraham]

RIP PJ

[@Bindahaha]

Did he Somalia Nick?

[@ManPursueExcellence]

PJ’s voice sounds like Vince McMahon........

[@smartiepancake]

IMO, it is mistaken to say that the internet only gives you what you ask for. The internet also serves up related content which is replete with unexpected information. What is more interesting are those occassions when related information is NOT presented. For example - how much libertarian web content links to geolibertariainism and Henry George? Virtually none, yet libertarianism without Georgist land reform/ tax reform makes no practical or philosophical sense. One almost suspects a consipracy to keep Georgism out of the discussion.

[@EliadesPastor]

Economic stability gives individuals the time to think and experiment in their time. That leads to the birth of your imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. That is our edge in successful democracies.

[@peterclark6290]

The silent generation were also parents of baby-boomers. The Great generations younger siblings who couldn't fight or contribute (age). The hippy default political stance was was Anarchism A Libertarian is just a cashed-up hippy/Anarchist.

[@tobygoodguy4032]

The 'silence' fought in the forgotten war.

[@humanentity5890]

Except that today's society isn't sure if it's male or female or deluded.

[@christinemarie6976]

Uh..not to be mean or anything, but if baby boomers are so wealthy and able to do anything, why not include a trip to the dentist once in a while?

[@Akm72]

Maybe because personal vanity isn't that important?

[@christinemarie6976]

Akm72 It takes on more importance if he's going to put himself in the public eye; but more so than the fact that it's really hard to look at him, oral health impacts the health of your entire body.

[@VaikeTiib]

To answer your question succinctly: I know he used to smoke and drink coffee. If you do that long enough, you will probably need caps and/or veneers.

[@scronx]

He's very talented, funny and outspoken when he wants to be -- how does this manage to be so boring? At least he's not as gratuitously foul-mouthed here as in his books. For the indictments boomers really deserve, keep up with dailystormer dot name.

[@MrGloriousg]

PJ O Rourke, you are not your khakis!

[@johnadams2833]

I'm as gen X as you can get. Born in 1972. Undiagnosed Aspergers until 2016. Worked my tail off all my life... yet never was invited into the protected bubble of corporate America. So... I worked every kind of crappy job that supposedly Americans are too lazy to do. Most of my jobs over the past 25 + years saw me working alongside illegal aliens, who often... Were given positions of authority over me. I finally got diagnosed because I got into college during the recession. I am getting ready to graduate with a degree in Civil Engineering... but I am also turning 47 this year. Classmates less than half my age, and professors who are in their 60s and 70s (boomers)... and, Of course, all the grad students are foreign nationals, so many labs and classes are taught with a thick ESL accent. The Boomers and the Millennials are "killing it" ...and then there's "nontraditional" students such as myself... No one ever comes right out and says, "Why are you here sir?" but that's the sentiment in 1000 little passive aggressive Ways they patronize me every day of each semester... yet I persevere. Before starting college at 40, I have at times been homeless... yet never begged or lived off the system. I still do not take SSI. Not all boomers are the classic narcissist. Not all millennials accept the privilege that's been afforded them by boomer policies and marketing favorential treatment. Then again, not all gen X have struggled. Some gen X made it into the corporate protected bubble right after high school, and have wanted for nothing. But, of all generations that got rooked by the generation of their parents... without a doubt gen X is still getting the shaft today! Mainly, the blame rests squarely with liberalism,libertarianism, marxism, socialism, the welfare state, the deep state, and... The protected class system. The greatest crime has become to have the misfortune of being born a cis-gendered, straight, white male... especially If you are considered 'uncooperative' to progressive globalist ideology, and, God-forbid, considered 'too white'. Then they wonder why so many of us gen X voted for Donald J. Trump in 2016, and will vote for him again in 2020.

[@douglasanderson8636]

He should have been president

[@stargate1935]

well im from generation x we are looked over we are in are 40s we are not baby boomers my parents are the baby boomers not me the mellinnials are the children of the early 50 year olds and the 40 year olds not the baby boomers

[@euenfheiejrj]

Not true. I'm an older millennial and my parents were baby boomers

[@EddieWinebauer]

crack use is down due to the rise of meth, period.

[@UnityFromDiversity]

The micro cycle(80 years): Hard times create strong men Strong men create good times Good times create baby boomers Baby boomers create hard times... The macro cycle(800-1200 years): Hard times create patriarchy(where rights are dependent on responsibilities, since men usually take more responsibilities than women this system is described as patriarchy) Patriarchy creates good times Good times creates feminism(equal rights independent of responsibilities) Feminism burns everything down, creating hard times... To Adam God said, "Because YOU LISTENED TO YOUR WIFE & ate from the tree about which I commanded you not to: Cursed is the ground because of you, through painful toil you will eat of it, all the days of your life." -Genesis 3:17 Man's hiearchy of needs: 1 Safety 2 Food & Water 3 Shelter & Sleep 4 Social & Sexual needs 5 Communal & self esteem needs 6 Self Actualization Women's hiearchy of needs: 1 Equality of Opportunity 2 Equality of Outcome 3 Equality of Authority 4 Equal Authority with no Responsibility 5 All the Authority with no Responsibility for the women, with all the Responsibilities & no Authority for the man or men(especially sexual Responsibilities & Authorities). A tyrant has 100% authority with 0% responsibility. A slave has 100% responsibility with 0% authority. Today marriage, as redefined by the female democratic majority and family court system, makes the man a slave to a tyrant wife, who can divorce him at will, stealing his children, his wealth, and his human dignity. All womens natural unregulated desire is to have sex with high status bad bad boys and get innocent men to pay for the responsibility consequences(abortions, kids ect.). That's why women, no matter how meritocratic, should never vote. Women want equal rights authority to make all the decisions in their own life when the alpha f*cks opportunity is there. Its when responsibility slowly comes knocking that women want to shift responsibility back over to innocent men. Women want to sit at the poker table of the socio-sexual market place & make bets & authorize promises in the hundreds of thousands in reproductive costs when they can only actually back up a few pennies worth of responsibility. If women CAN'T take responsibility for a authorization, then they CAN'T have equal authority/rights as the guy who can. Show me a man who takes by force what he wants from women and I'll show you 100 women who vote to take by force what they want from men. Show me a grave created by patriarchy and Ill show you an entire graveyard created by feminism/communism. "Any society that negates the role of the father in the voluntarily marriage contract from decent civilization building men and replaces it with a involuntary centralized welfare state will not remain civilized for long."

[@jennypagliai7259]

I was born in ‘62, at the tail end of The Baby boom. I watched in horror as feminism destroyed my parents, my family, my childhood, my life, my country & the Western World. Never in all my life up until recently, did I understand that liberalism leads to communism. As a small child I knew it was all wrong, but as an older adult I’m aghast at what it takes to breed communism.

[@philipclock]

Bring back the draft, and two years in the military.

[@rickywilliams9937]

Why? We don't need a draft or to force people to join the military. It works as a volunteer force and having people join that want to be there.

[@philipclock]

@@rickywilliams9937 Discipline, duty to you, your family, your community and your country; passage of life, learning to join and thrive in a group and work with authority. C'mon!

[@rickywilliams9937]

As a veteran myself I see no need for that. You want people that want to be there, especially in a combat zone. The military isn’t for everyone so I disagree. People can learn to thrive in a group and lead in the civilian world pursuing their passions.

[@boomshizzIe]

wassup reddit

[@dr2407]

Baby boomers drunk stupid stoned hmm kinda sums them up

[@GentleJohn]

Baby Boomers have used up all the weird? Lol this guy obviously hasn't spent much time on the internet

[@The_Ballo]

+Orangelo Baby Boomers generally have an inflated opinion of themselves. Once you realize this, everything else makes sense.

[@50Grassy]

Just put everybody (who votes) into the military .That way you'll always have a home and get you old farts into shape.

[@juliejensen7370]

I'm a baby boomer but I'm not dumb enough to approve of cryptocoin which is HORRENDOUS for the environment, Reason? TV.

[@dertythegrower]

Mehhh

[@PostSurgeOperative]

Too bad all libertarians aren't all as thoughtful, sane, and reasonable as P. J. O'Rourke.