“Feelings would be the great enabler, allowing Boomers to undermine the whole edifice of fact and reason in favor of personal truth, expedient and final. Henceforth, if the science of climate change commanded reduced consumption or other sacrifices incompatible with… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Copy Share Image
“Taxes occupy a strange position in the emotional landscape, oscillating between moments of great passion (April 15 and election days) and near-lethal boredom (every other day), and this is what makes fiddling with taxes so enticing: Politicians can always whip… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Copy Share Image
“More than anything, Boomer influence is a story of sheer numbers. As of the early 1980s, when the Boomer revolution really kicked off, the… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Copy Share Image
“What establishes the Boomers as a political generation is that the Boomers’ overriding policy ambitions have been defined not in conventional terms like race… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Copy Share Image
“For those readers who are Boomers, or have parents or grandparents who are Boomers, it may be of small comfort that this book does… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Copy Share Image
“The sociopaths’ goal is to wring every last dollar from the system, and any investment that could not be fully realized within Boomer lifetimes… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Copy Share Image
“The pastoral Left, religious Right, and everywhere in between were afflicted by a resurgent sentimentality and desire for immediate gratification incompatible with the uncompromising… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Copy Share Image
“Once Boomers have been unseated, undoing their decades of mismanagement will require a significant social reorganization, especially of retirement and health-care benefits, and a… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Copy Share Image
“The point of this context is not to demand a return to the era of 90 percent taxation, but simply to remind that in… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Copy Share Image
“The sociopathic society of consumption depends heavily on goods turned out by dismal sweatshops (e.g., Boomer Kathie Lee’s/Wal-Mart’s Dickensian workshops, Boomers Steve Jobs’/Tim Cook’s… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Copy Share Image
“Reagan (or, at least, the public’s version of him) was tailor-made for the sociopathic electorate. Never again would the Boomers be told to save,… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, sociopaths are antisocial by nature, and their lack of empathy and foresight consigns them to view society only as a restraint on individual… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Copy Share Image
“What Washington cannot easily change is the culture itself—specifically the culture created by the Boomers. Until that happens, the parade of mediocrity, underfunding, and… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Copy Share Image
