I'll bite. And, for the record, I don't believe in "collective guilt," but I am a "run the numbers" guy. Self-righteous 'Boomer epitomizes exactly what's wrong with his generation: indignant, entitled, and unsympathetic. He was in the military during one of the the longest protracted stretches of relative peace in the twentieth century - from 1974 until what I'd assume was around 1994, since retirement occurs at twenty years, even dumping the so-called "Gulf War" into the mix. He had a job and guaranteed housing for the entirety of his "career," something that couldn't be said for most blue collar types. Seeing that he attended a "mix" of public and private schools, it's hinted that his family was at least middle class or better, during America's most prosperous era, which puts him ahead of most. Seeing the writing on the wall of Vietnam and the draft, and noting that a cease fire had been agreed to by 1973 (just in time for his high school graduation), he opted to enlist for a better shot at avoiding the shit. He likely never ended up in a rice paddy, or else he'd have boasted about it in his self-aggrandizing preamble. By the time he was 26, he was granted a pay increase at his guaranteed taxpayer funded employment with his taxpayer funded housing. He's oddly quite proud that in his early twenties, with an able body, he never took welfare during the era when most young men are making low wages anyway and scratching to figure out how to get into a career, something he had already been provided by Uncle Sam. Over the next decade and a half, he likely took full advantage of whatever status was afforded him by his clean, government issued work costume... er, uniform: VA loans, discounts, etc. Based on the way he talks, he was probably even frugal with that taxpayer money he was handed for defending a desk from foes both foreign and domestic. He raised his kids during the last couple of decades where the government hadn't ruthlessly abandoned all pretense of the boot on the necks of the people, retired from the public sector during a booming economy, and had guaranteed retirement benefits locked in by his forties. He had seen the taxpayer-provided home he'd purchased appreciate by more than double in that time, granting him sizable equity for his meager investment in the early eighties, as well. If he were even remotely clever, he'd have invested some of his surplus as well, likely yielding further benefits. Today, he's the Conservaboomer. He gets warm fuzzies from and demands people stand for the national anthem of a country whose last truly justified war was arguably its first. He doesn't know or care that the Pledge of Allegiance was socialist rhetoric claptrap intended to promote obedience and inspire reverence toward the ever-expanding "progressive" state, or how it was repackaged during the Red Scare to include "Under God" so as to fool Christians into thinking it wasn't a prayer to the US government. He thinks voting matters when picking between pairs of curated, bank-appointed office-seekers. He believes Israel is America's greatest ally, and must be defended because Jesus would want it that way. He has no idea that the wars he endorsed during the early 21st century were fought for the benefit of Israel and her white traitor lackeys to whom they toss the scraps of wealth in the oil and other industries, and if you raise the point with him, he will argue that they're "God's people." He doesn't care that his complacency when it came to defending the real America: freedom from impairment, actually earning your living rather than taking poorly disguised government handouts for "make work," humble foreign policy and defense, and awareness of racial realities, especially when it comes to the malice of the jew, is part of what led to the place we are today. He instead levels a wagging finger at the generation his turned into latch-key kids. Those who suffered as their parents focused on their careers and wealth rather than bothered raising them. Ones craving familial love and affection and going largely unanswered as their mommies flooded the workplace to massage their own bloated egos, and watching as their parents divorced because they didn't "feel it" any longer. It's "their" fault that without being raised properly in two-parent, traditional households, they had no idea how to forge and retain a traditional, two-parent household. To sum up, he's patently clueless, willfully so, and unyielding in his arrogance to hear any real arguments, leaving any reader with critical thinking skills with only one thing to say in response: "OK, Boomer."