One of the Dread Ilk observe that there appears to be an increase in the level of Boomer Rage of late:
I have noticed that the liberal boomers have been especially shrill the past 9-10 months. It seems weekly for some, for others almost daily. They have to post on social media their 2 minute hate against Donald J. Trump, Jr to notify everyone they are still pure.
There is an inversion of their beliefs. 50-60 years ago, they did not trust the Federal government. Now, they scoff at terms like “deep state” and rush to defend the bloated behemoth reminiscent of Orwell’s Big Brother. Deep down, they are totalitarians.
Multiple times I have seen them post that if you voted for DJT or support his policies, you can walk away right now. I don’t remember it being this extreme in 2017.
Maybe it is encroaching mortality making them screech more. I have a gut feeling all the hippie/Age of Aquarius nonsense they believe in and attempt to foist on Western Civilization is crumbling under noticing that it is not a small world after all and we are not all the same. Maybe they realize after decades that humans are not a blank slate.
It is both entertaining and tiresome. I just have to remind myself they are flailing knowing their worldview if going down and taking some pleasure. It is hard not to post a meme mocking them in the comments.
A lot of this is also aging Gamma rage. How long can they keep this up? This can’t be emotionally healthy as their rage eats away at their sanity. I guess we will find out in time.
I think it is mostly the unanticipated discovery of their increasing irrelevance to events and the indifference of the younger generations to their opinions that bothers them most. It was one thing to be young, the center of attention, and have everyone telling you that you were going to change the world, it is something else altogether to be old, of interest to no one, and have everyone telling you that you changed the world for the worse.
In far too many cases, they no longer even have the ability to be relevant to the younger generations due to their lack of any inheritance; the grasshopper generation has not only eaten the seed corn, a disproportionate number will leave behind nothing more than debts that no one will ever pay.
The correct way to dealing with angry Boomers is to let them blow off steam without sharing your opinion of them or whatever the subject of their venting happens to be. Because they’re not going to change now, so the only thing you can control is your own reactions to their lamentations, monologues, and chronicle of their physical infirmities.