Democratic Primaries
Showing Original Post only (View all)Joe Biden is not a Boomer. Just so you know. [View all]
He's a member of the silent generation. So is Bernie Sanders. Elizabeth Warren is a Boomer, though.
Of the three leading primary candidates, only one is a Boomer. The other two were born before WWII ended.
Does that matter? Not really, but the "OK Boomer" sayers get it wrong with Biden and Sanders. They're wartime babies. They don't really have a well-known generational profile. That's why they're called the Silent Generation.
Just pointing that out. As it happens, I was born in 1945, about a week before the Hiroshima bomb was dropped. On the day I was born, my father was in North Africa, flying people around in a B-17. For him, the war was already over. I'm not a Boomer, either, by most definitions, although I consider myself part of that generation.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden