“Gabler wraps up by citing the statistic that 21 percent of Americans view a lottery win as the most practical way to accumulate wealth. Of course, Gabler and the Boomers did win the lottery: They were born in the richest… — 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
“Nowhere did sociopathic avarice, deceit, imprudence, and political power combine more powerfully than in tax policy, which allowed the Boomers to reshuffle in their… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Copy Share Image
“The Boomers were the first modern generation to harbor really negative feelings about reality and science, and their success in undermining these goods has… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Copy Share Image
“Failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors… deceitfulness, as indicated by repeated lying, use of aliases or conning others for… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Copy Share Image
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