I'm really interested in the way that the Boomers (seemingly, to my eyes) gained a good deal of political power & influence early in their generational aging curve and (again, seemingly) have retained that power despite being so late in their aging curve. Any books you're aware of that explore this political power relationship?
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Been wondering about this too tbh. “The Fourth Turning” by Strauss and Howe gets into generational cycles and power shifts, though it’s more theoretical. For something more concrete, maybe check out “A Generation of Sociopaths” by Bruce Cannon Gibney – dude basically argues boomers broke everything and won’t let go of the wheel
Lol I would actually save anything they gained power a little late, and that’s why they’re just so weirdly determined to hold on FOREVER. Because in the 90s everything that I saw was ran by World War II veteran.
I’d be interested in a serious exploration of this, but the idea that it happened early in the aging curve seems off to me. I’m a mid-Boomer but I was nearly 40 before a President in that generation was elected President. Some of us were nearly 50. We were stuck with Nixon, Ford, Carter and Reagan as presidents and most of the other national power players were still older than any of us. After that, yeah, but that kind of tracks a typical political age trend until Trump and then Biden, who was not a Boomer. I think the abnormal part of it is the lack of participation in voting by generations following who could easily have changed it all by voting for younger candidates. I wish they had.