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How Boomers Can Save What’s Left Of America For Younger Generations

The Baby Boomers grew up in a completely different world than their children and grandchildren live in today. They need to know that and respond.

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This is an extended version of a speech given to Eagle Forum’s national conference last week.

Are millennials and Gen Z better off than their parents?

In their childbearing and prime income years, boomers were born into a more unified culture, with much less competition from foreign markets and migrants, far more plentiful family-wage-earning jobs that didn’t require college degrees, far cheaper college for the minority suited for it, far lower inflation for core survival costs, stronger families with less divorce and working mothers, less crime, higher church attendance, higher rates of volunteering for everything from PTA to Little League, fewer cross-country moves from family to obtain a job, more cultural cohesion, and less-woke public schools where students spoke English.

Boomers did not deserve any of those things because of merit; these are a gifted civilizational inheritance that helped them succeed. Yet, as a generation, boomers have passed down none of this to their children and grandchildren.

The boomers grew up in a completely different world than their children and grandchildren live in today. They need to know that and respond. It is an abdication of duty to spend 20, 30 retirement years consuming pleasures rather than leaving an eternal legacy for the people God placed you near.

Boomers are the richest generation in world history, but their children are the most bankrupt, both financially and culturally. The shocking financial realities we’ll look at in a moment are a symbol of the last century’s private equity-style, vulture-capitalism treatment of Americans’ priceless civic inheritance.

The Legacy Window Is Closing

My most recent book, False Flag, argues that family disintegration is a root cause of America’s political and cultural disintegration. Family disintegration is also the root cause of the wealth gap between young and old Americans that is setting us up for crazier politics. You think the Trump era has been crazy? Buckle your seatbelts.

Part of that craziness will come from the steadiness and civic trust we will lose when boomers head — hopefully — to heaven. While millennials and zoomers might rudely trash boomers in public, their deaths will be a huge loss for our country. Boomers are generous with their time and money, patriotic, and better educated than their kids. They have priceless practical knowledge about how to keep engines running, farms producing, and factories operating.

But their window to shape their legacy is closing. Before they go, we younger folks need our grandparents to build and fill supply lines to sustain the ways of life necessary to win a long march of reconquest back through America’s institutions. We need the richest generation in world history to offset the malevolent influences of billionaires like George Soros. And we don’t just need boomers’ money; we need them to teach us by example that some things matter far more than money.

The Economic Despair Spiral

Napoleon Bonaparte famously said that an army marches on its stomach. People worried about affording the medical bills if their kid breaks an arm aren’t persuaded by slogans about the evils of socialism. The right needs to make people’s everyday lives better. The investor Peter Thiel notes, “If one has no stake in the capitalist system, then one may well turn against it.” Shortly you’ll see why I don’t think we have a capitalist system, but his point remains: People are not likely to support a society in which their futures look worse than their parents’.

You see, the Cold War didn’t fully end. It was imported into American schools, workforces, and media. So, paradoxically, the young have been taught to blame capitalism for the consequences of socialism. The distress young Americans feel, combined with their public school-induced ignorance about Christianity, history, and economics, opens their souls to communism.

A poll out this month found 59 percent of Democrat Party voters support the Democrat Socialists of America, which is just a communist front group, with more than 25 percent of all voters supporting the group.

Communists and socialists agree socialism is merely the preface to communism. The world’s leading Communist country, China, blends communist, socialist, and fascist methods — it widely deploys covert party organizations barely disguised as independent entities. So I divide the world into collectivism and ordered liberty. The United States is now a mix of these, and our bureaucracy has been on a merger path with Communist China, as writer N.S. Lyons argues.

Russ Greene points out that Communist China redistributes less wealth than the United States does. The United States also spends more on redistribution than Canada, and about as much as France, Sweden, and Germany. So if Germany and France are socialist welfare states, what is the United States?

Government debt and deficits from old-age entitlements that the elderly did not earn are causing structural inflation that keeps the young from forming families. Further, the young have not been trained in the virtues necessary to deal with even small hardships. This creates a situation ripe for revolutionary politics and leftist extremism.

While luxuries and tech have gotten cheaper since boomers were young, the price of a middle-class life has skyrocketed: mortgages, rent, college, health insurance, food, and energy. Even things that have gotten cheaper, like new cars and clothing, have cratered in quality. Consumer goods, for example, wear faster and look cheaper, are harder to fix yourself, and can rarely be passed down.

Moreover, cheap screens are creating the dumbest generation in recorded modern history.

Working So Other People Can Relax

These next graphs show that all the core living expenses, in inflation-adjusted dollars, have increased by huge amounts, taking people’s previous budget margins and keeping more Americans out of the middle-class status that promotes social stability.

Here’s a personal example. In our 17 years of marriage, my family’s medical expenses have always been below our deductible (except for the year a kid broke........

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