“More than anything, Boomer influence is a story of sheer numbers. As of the early 1980s, when the Boomer revolution really kicked… — 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… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Life 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… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Baby boom 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… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Goals 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… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Desire 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,… — 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… — 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… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Tim Cook 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… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Material possessions 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… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Empathy 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,… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Failure 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… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Political power 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… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Negative feelings 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… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Failure Copy Share Image
“Class size has become something of a fetish, and the overall pupil/teacher ratio has declined at a slow rate since the 1970s.… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Copy Share Image
“Concerns about bankruptcy abuses prompted Congress to crack down in 2005, decades after it unlocked the bankruptcy door for the Boomers. Like… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Child support Copy Share Image
“The Boomers’ ersatz neoliberalism emphasizes consumption over production, dogmatic deregulation instead of thoughtful oversight, permanent deficits instead of fiscal prudence, and capitalism… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Economics Copy Share Image
“The various and dispiriting candidates of recent years have offered their own explanations for the mystery of American underperformance, though being mainly… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Federal government Copy Share Image
“The only modern presidents to really succeed in education (in limited ways) were Eisenhower and Johnson; the former, because he had very… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Cold war Copy Share Image
“And Boomer (and thus American) politics will continue to be driven by life cycle, with the Boomers’ desire to maintain old-age benefits… — Bruce Cannon Gibney American politics Copy Share Image
“Stitched together, they produce a cohesive and unsettling narrative of a generation that—in the many decades it has dominated political and corporate… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Corporate america Copy Share Image
“The nonsociopathic wing of the Boomer generation may also find value in seeing the acts of their contemporaries in a different light… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Children Copy Share Image
“Feelings would be the great enabler, allowing Boomers to undermine the whole edifice of fact and reason in favor of personal truth,… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Change Copy Share Image
“The Boomers’ numerosity meant that even a modest tilt in any one direction (self-serving sociopathy, as a pointed example) influenced outcomes profoundly.… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Copy Share Image
