We’re All Boomers Now

“If you look back on the Sixties and think there was more good than bad, you’re probably a Democrat,” Bill Clinton remarked in 2004. “If you think there was more harm than good, you're probably a Republican.” For once, the former president was telling the truth, although probably not in the way he intended. The sociocultural divisions produced by America’s decade of discontent are embedded in our politics today, perpetuated by the political, cultural, and economic dominance of the generation that was formed by that era. It’s a generational dominance that was inaugurated, in many ways, by our first Baby Boomer president himself, William Jefferson Clinton, who was aptly dubbed by Pat Robertson “the poster child of the 1960s.”