Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Joe Biden is not a Boomer. Just so you know. [View all]emmaverybo
(8,144 posts)studies programs, for native Americans, for Latino causes. Yes, the civil rights movement had already started, but boomers participated widely and supported. As to fear of being drafted driving the anti-war movement, many had already been drafted. Many were more concerned about the civilian deaths in Vietnam than US casualties. It is true that the movements I cited were started by people older than baby boomers, but their rise in popularity and reach into mainstream society
Was both supported by and and facilitated by baby boomers, many of whom took the message into the classroom and the various helping professions they entered,
To portray baby boomers as mostly stoners or these movements as not involving baby boomers is simply wrong. Maybe you need to ask baby boomers at DU about their activism and their service, which began at an early age. If it is more accurate to say baby boomers carried the torch while the previous generation lit it, pioneered it, I concede with all due respect.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden