But boomers didn’t start getting born until AFTER WWII ended. The early boomers tend to identify more with the Mickey Mouse Club, the rise of Rock and Roll, and the burgeoning of the civil rights movement/Vietnam.
Mid to late boomers like me often tend to identify with Bugs Bunny, Rock after the Beatles broke up, Watergate, and Vietnam.
Yeah, when I was in grade school I was hearing the college guys go on how the New Generation would put the world right (looks around…) . Though to be fair, it was just as likely to be the college lecturers climing that.
Now that I look at it… using the arbitrary technical bounds of the “Baby Boom”, Obama counts as Boomer one so we’ve had 28 total years of Boomer presidents (matching the number for "presidents who served in some branch during WW2).
But look at that big big gap, between 3 1st-batch Victory Boomers and a Space Age Boomer. The first batch just overwhelmed, by numbers and by opportunity advantage. We still might have more Boomer presidents, as that “last batch” of Boomers are barely entering their 60s.
But that also showed me something: Biden is technically “Silent Generation” – the people who were born during the Depression and WW2 – and is likely to be the only one from that cohort to ever be elected POTUS.
(Speaking of which: By the definition of the so-called generations, most leaders of the movements of the 1960s and those who got things done, were “Silent” or “Greatest” generation cohort, not Boomers. )
Huh? Don’t think so. Boomers’ parents identify with WW2.
(or, what Qadgop said)
Believe me, they will.
Some of us boomers were hippies, and I remember railing at my dad because his generation polluted our water and air. And were drafting our generation to fight their war ('Nam, man…). And gave money to corporate fat cats instead of The People.
We had rallying cries like “Don’t trust anyone over thirty”.… so we can’t really complain about ageist prejudice.
So far, I’ve been able to laugh it off when my kids and students make a “boomer” joke. Same with TV ads where the dad is an idiot…
Middle aged white guys are really the only demographic that it’s okay to make fun of. And, hey, we’ve been on top long enough, it’s about time somebody called us on our privilege.
Yeah, Snowglobe Bo, your comment reminded me of exactly how we felt…
…back in 1964:
Come mothers and fathers, throughout the land,
And don’t criticize what you can’t understand.Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command.
Your old road is rapidly agin’…
Please get out of the new one if you can’t lend a hand!For the times they are a-changin’…
Mr. Dylan being born in 1941. Nobel prize winning poet.
The status quo is a beast to overcome. It’s funny to think someday Zoomers will be bitching about Millennials and vice-versa. Right now we’re mostly unified in defense of ourselves.
And Henry Kissinger is a Nobel Peace Prize winning diplomat.
Your point? Am I supposed to git off your lawn?
You can’t. You just get used to LGBT and the next thing you know they’ve added three new letters to it.
Who was born in 1923. Not even Silent Generation - he was from the Lost Generation.
I thought we were just sharing Nobel Prize facts.
All righty then. That Kissinger was a sneaky one-never did like the guy. Couldn’t pay guitar worth a damn either.
(That’s a boomer thing. I’m an unrepentant boomer)
I never did get Dylan.
It’s always disconcerted me that I’m considered a Millennial (born 1983) alongside people who have known nothing but the internet their entire lives. I didn’t even have a cell phone until college. 9/11 happened during my first week of college. But somehow I’m supposed to be like people who were only five years old when that happened. It’s bizarre.
It’s annoying to me as I am called a boomer but am really Gen-x (1970). Just proves the youngings need the paddle ‘bout learning the keerekt generations. 
That goddamned Reagan is gonna be affecting politics in this country 60 years after he left office. We’re lucky that Trump didn’t have the same kind of influence on today’s yoots.
I think some people have started to use “boomer” to mean “old person who is out of touch”. And they don’t actually notice the difference between those born during the baby boom (exclusively after WWII) and the silent generation, and the great generation.
And if you look at the political gripes against boomers, they are mostly about policies put into place by those earlier generations.
It’s just sloppy shorthand for, “you are old, you don’t get it, get out of the way of us younguns.”
I think you’re correct about it being an easy shorthand. I suspect most millennials and younger don’t care about the silliness that is generations. They are very arbitrary at best and probably close to useless in reality.
Generations don’t have power, people have power. It may be that more boomers have power than gen-Xers. It may even be that gen X had fewer advantages as young adults, and will be less likely to come into power than the millennials. The silent generation always did have less visability than either the great generation or the boomers.
But the old always have more power than the young. And then they die. Until we abolish death, you won’t have to worry about a single generation endlessly hogging the power.
Hell yes. I read all these asinine articles poking fun at our outright assaulting the intelligence of millennials, and all i could think of was that the cat majority of millennials i know rock. Do they care about work-life balance? Good for them. The ones i work with get their job done and are a joy to work with.
Ageism, and generally attacking people for the group they are in, sucks.
Several of my millennial friends have assured me i am not a boomer (i was born in the early sixties), as if that justifies the slur. 
But you know what, one thing we boomers did well was to raise the children we aspired to be. We aspired to end racism and sexism, but we find ourselves mired in systemic racism and sexism, and it’s hard to get past that. But our kids! Our kids really are less racist and less sexist than we are. They are generally kinder, less tolerant of bullying, more tolerant of differences. Not every one of them, of course. But quite a lot of them.
If the worst slur they have promulgated is “boomer”, I’ll take it.
Our kids might be, but I’m worried about those kids in Trump (or McConnell) Country. A lot of young white southerners, especially belonging to Protestant churches are still pretty racist and anti-science. But maybe it is just taking an extra generation for them to get the message.
I haven’t been seeing all that many Boomer references online lately, in contrast to Karen, Florida Man and Florida Woman. But it’s always been lazy and stupid to stereotype people based on an artificial generational construct, especially one that lumps in people born as far apart as 1946 and 1964.
The idea that the Younger Generation will be blissfully free of racism and sexism is laughable, even overlooking embrace of ageism.
Was gonna mention. “Boomer” gets turned into a generic for “middle aged or older member of the Establishment”. Meanwhile, “Millennial” gets used as a generic for “any snowflake under age 40”.