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Not Every Boomer Built the Cage
🧿Grey Galaxie🧿

..."Hopefully, the boomers worth honoring already know we are not talking about them. They have been in the trenches with us. They have marched beside us, organized beside us, voted beside us, warned us, taught us, and kept showing up. They know the difference between being part of a generation and becoming an avatar for its worst impulses.

Because power loves nothing more than a generational food fight. It loves when workers blame each other by age bracket instead of following the money. It loves when pain gets misdirected sideways instead of upward. It loves when resentment becomes so generalized that the actual architects of austerity, privatization, extraction, and abandonment get to slip quietly out the back door while the rest of us argue in the parking lot.

The truth is messier, more human, and more useful.

Some boomers helped build the world we are trying to survive. Some boomers helped fight the forces that deformed it. Some are still fighting now. Some sold out. Some never had anything to sell. Some got seduced by comfort and hierarchy. Some remained loyal to justice long after it stopped being fashionable. History is rarely neat enough to fit into one insult.

So yes, name the damage. Name the policies. Name the greed. Name the smug ladder-pullers who turned social mobility into a private club, then locked the doors behind them. Drag them by their loafers if necessary. But do not hand them the satisfaction of being confused with the people who actually bled for a better country.

Not every elder became the landlord of the future.

Some of them were, and still are, part of the resistance.

Some of them knew all along that freedom is not a possession. It is a practice. It survives because ordinary people keep carrying it for one another, even when the powerful do everything they can to make us forget."...