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> [“Obama was far more conservative than Richard Nixon, for example, and this has been the Democratic story since Boomers started voting en masse. The initial deregulatory impulse began under Carter, not Reagan; it was Clinton, not Bush I, who promised…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-cannon-gibney/obama-was-far-more-conservative-than-richard-nixon-for-example-and/)

[Bruce Cannon Gibney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-cannon-gibney/)

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## More by Bruce Cannon Gibney

> [“More than anything, Boomer influence is a story of sheer numbers. As of the early 1980s, when the Boomer revolution really kicked off, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-cannon-gibney/more-than-anything-boomer-influence-is-a-story-of-sheer-numbers-as-of/)

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> [“What establishes the Boomers as a political generation is that the Boomers’ overriding policy ambitions have been defined not in conventional terms like race…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-cannon-gibney/what-establishes-the-boomers-as-a-political-generation-is-that-the/)

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> [“For those readers who are Boomers, or have parents or grandparents who are Boomers, it may be of small comfort that this book does…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-cannon-gibney/for-those-readers-who-are-boomers-or-have-parents-or-grandparents-who/)

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> [“The sociopaths’ goal is to wring every last dollar from the system, and any investment that could not be fully realized within Boomer lifetimes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-cannon-gibney/the-sociopaths-goal-is-to-wring-every-last-dollar-from-the-system-and/)

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> [“The pastoral Left, religious Right, and everywhere in between were afflicted by a resurgent sentimentality and desire for immediate gratification incompatible with the uncompromising…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-cannon-gibney/the-pastoral-left-religious-right-and-everywhere-in-between-were/)

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> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-cannon-gibney/once-boomers-have-been-unseated-undoing-their-decades-of/)

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> [“The point of this context is not to demand a return to the era of 90 percent taxation, but simply to remind that in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-cannon-gibney/the-point-of-this-context-is-not-to-demand-a-return-to-the-era-of-90/)

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> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-cannon-gibney/the-sociopathic-society-of-consumption-depends-heavily-on-goods/)

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> [“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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-cannon-gibney/reagan-or-at-least-the-public-s-version-of-him-was-tailor-made-for/)

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> [“Unfortunately, sociopaths are antisocial by nature, and their lack of empathy and foresight consigns them to view society only as a restraint on individual…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-cannon-gibney/unfortunately-sociopaths-are-antisocial-by-nature-and-their-lack-of/)

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> [“Going forward, it would be “three strikes, you’re out.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-cannon-gibney/going-forward-it-would-be-three-strikes-you-re-out/)

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> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-cannon-gibney/what-washington-cannot-easily-change-is-the-culture-itself/)

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> [“Nowhere did sociopathic avarice, deceit, imprudence, and political power combine more powerfully than in tax policy, which allowed the Boomers to reshuffle in their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-cannon-gibney/nowhere-did-sociopathic-avarice-deceit-imprudence-and-political-power/)

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> [“The Boomers were the first modern generation to harbor really negative feelings about reality and science, and their success in undermining these goods has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-cannon-gibney/the-boomers-were-the-first-modern-generation-to-harbor-really/)

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> [“Failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors… deceitfulness, as indicated by repeated lying, use of aliases or conning others for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-cannon-gibney/failure-to-conform-to-social-norms-with-respect-to-lawful-behaviors/)

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