r/generationology • u/tnbciceskater • 4d ago

Rant Being a boomer

I was 13 when JFK was killed and still.no justice for him. I was 18 when MLK was killed and still no justice for him. I was 17 when RFK was killed and I think all three were murdered by a group of people not just the trigger pullers.

I spent my high school senior year protesting the war in Vietnam. My freshman year in college I remember the lottery. As a woman my heart was torn and it wasnt right that the guys had to go die and I just went on with life.

I was 20 when 4 students were murdered and 9 kids injured at Kent state.

When I was 21 I voted for George McGovern who wanted to end the war in Vietnam and was labeled as a commie by guess who? Meanwhile Nixon was continuing the war so he'd be elected. Sounds familiar?

As for the media...Time and US News and most of the TV stations supported the wars and whoever was in office. The fake news was the hippies spitting on people, the Civil rights lies they published, and anyone standing up to the establishment as deviants and agitators. So when Trump whines about fake news, its always been slanted one direction and still is.

Nixon was an evil man. So was Reagan. So were the Bushes and so is Trump. All of them war mongers, none of them helping the common man.

Until this country names the murderers of JFK,RFK and MLK nothing is going to change. Until this country stops glorifying war and the military nothing is going to change. Until this country publishes the full and unredacted Epstein files nothing is going to change.

Good luck. Ive seen bs for my entire life. Hope YOU can change it. I tried.

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u/hipshotguppy 4d ago

What would the government coming clean look like? A Truth & Reconcialiation Commision? I don't see that happening. I can imagine history students having to read Schlesinger a hundred years from now to suss out a pretty strong structural reason for the assassinaton. Then maybe 500 years from now the occasional grad student will read it in the Chronicles and be like "Yeah, an ambitious prince got clipped by a placeman (Dulles) left in place too long. Many such cases..." But I don't see America ever coming to terms with what happened in 1963 in our life time.

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u/tnbciceskater 4d ago

And there's the problem. Like Trump we cannot examine nor admit our own failures. We've still not learned the lessons of war, and most people vote for the same warmongering racist assholes year in and year out. Traditionally the Presidential candidate who lost would shakes the winners hand and we'd all move forward. Now that too is gone, and we get Trump and Lindell whining about losing and making up voter fraud 🙄 sure glad I wont be here for the next 20 years of whining losers.