Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Joe Biden is not a Boomer. Just so you know. [View all]Blue_true
(31,261 posts)They were non participants in that effort. The early Boomers did participate in Vietnam protests since in the 1964-68 timeframe the oldest ones would have been 18-22 years old, but my argument is they did it out of fear more than principle. Their actions at the 68 Democratic Convention helped get Nixon elected, IMO. I am a middle Boomer who was nearing the start of my early teen years in 68, I would not vote until President Carter ran.
Women's rights were more of a function of middle and late Boomer influence because women really didn't start to have their issues taken seriously until the late seventies when those two Boomer groups came of age in significant numbers. There were exceptions, women from welloff families like Jane Fonda had some prominence as sidekicks to men. So, I dispute your claim that early Boomers did anything significant about women's rights, that battle was carried by their younger members and made very prominent by Gen X, that is when men discovered that they could not beat the shit out of their girlfriends and wives and expect that nothing would be done about that.
Early Boomers were predominantly failures at driving real social change, even though they take credit for those changes. Events that burned into the social mindset, like Kent State were borne by middle Boomers and late Boomers, not their older counterparts.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden