If you had to pick, would you say Barack Obama is a Baby Boomer or part of Generation X?
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Replying to @Brandon_Bird
If you've read Audacity of Hope Obama's fallout w community organizing is a classic Boomer vs X narrative
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Gen X is abt disillusionment with ideology, even if it doesn't turn you into a Reality Bites burnout
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Obama more or less straight up says it in his book - he'd rather DO SOMETHING even if it's a horribly compromised thing than do nothing
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Replying to @arthur_affect
It's a deep difference in temperament vs the generation that believed it best to speak uncompromised truths from a place outside of power
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And that's why it's a generational cycle, bc then that becomes the pattern the next generation is sick of
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