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It really is an attitude more so than an age. that generation just happens to have a lot of people with that attitude.

My Gpa, a member of the “greatest generation” was a very conservative man. So much so, one might forget he was a staunch, lifelong, democrat. When trump was running, we had a family dinner out. We did this regularly, at least 3-4 times a year. Everyone local that exists because of my gma and gpa, we’d all go out to dinner.

Anyways, a cousin, his wife, and his dad (my uncle, gpa’s son) were talking trump as the meal ended, and my cousin makes a comment that “we’re all republicans here” and my gpa, a shy, quiet, incredibly conservative man, dropped his fist on the table and said (paraphrasing), “I didn’t think I raised anyone stupid enough to claim trump as a republican. And I know your grandma raised you all to be kinder and more loving than what republicans are spouting now, but since you're so keen for that philosophy, you can bootstrap yourselves through this bill."

He then pointed at the three who had been singing trump's praises and said, everyone else, thank [their names] for a lovely dinner, gma expects you all back at the house for cake within the hour. Everyone else, we're done.

then he stood there as the rest of us cleared out, leaving his son, his grandson, and grandson's wife at the table. he joined us outside, and was back to his quiet, retiring self. Unsure how my uncle and cousins decided to split a 19 person bill at a local steakhouse, but it wasn't my grandparents.

Your dad is awesome and absolutely correct. I’m a US boomer who advocates universal healthcare and (shudder) universal basic income/ living wages. I want these things for my grandchildren who will face a challenging future I didn’t have to face. My ancestors were immigrants around 1900. They came to give their descendants a better life. That is why people still immigrate.

My dad was one of those progressive boomers but came to it later in life. Growing up he was very conservative but having a daughter like me opened his eyes to a whole new way of thinking and he embraced it. I miss him. Definitely thankful for all the progressive boomers out there. If only more a-hole boomers had the capacity to learn and change as he did.

73 year old Canadian here. I think I am in love with your father lol. He fucking nailed it. My wife and I are so grateful for the country we live in and the life we have. It’s not perfect, but it’s pretty good.

Me adopting 4 Black Children between 2000 and 2012 helped me to understand the issue with Racial Relations in America.

My wife ran the Children's Ministry and I was her Gopher, and that Church turned Dark when Obama was elected president.

We left there and have never returned to any Church since, because it appears many are pretty Racist in our area.

Many of the Gen Xers I grew up with were Liberal like I was, but now they are all either RFK or Trump. And I can tell you Much of THAT is due to FEAR. Rather Real or perceived.

The only thing I fear is White Racist hurting my children, they are the True Threat to America.

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Not Canadian, but just a reminder that we have progressive boomers down here, too! I hope your dad knows how much we appreciate him!

I hate on boomers too, but my parents and most of their friends are really decent, loving people. Me and my friends we raised right and have great lives and we appreciate that they did that for us. So, when I blame boomers, I'm almost always excluding them from my criticisms.

I was lucky enough to spend time with a woman born in Nazi regime Austria, who spent a large chunk of her life as a college professor in the US and donated her free time as a teacher in the states biggest juvenile detention center.

She made full curriculum of African American history, Latin American history and Native American history. On her own time and dime. The state declared the idea to be racist.

It was always a choice to be a cunt. It's just a shame that so many have prospered as cunts.

My MIL and FIL are the progressive liberal democrats I want to be when I grow up!

For the ones trying, the ones who cautiously fumble while asking their grandchildren for their friend's preferred pronouns, the ones who have learned not to assume, the ones who have really put family first, we all see you ❤️

I feel pretty blessed, the worst thing my grandfather does is send essays about our basketball team and make me golf with him once a month (he wants me to be his golf partner so he doesn't have to play with other boomers.)

As a Gen X married to a boomer, I read this subreddit regularly to make sure you’ll never see a story about me in it. Hubby and I have regular discussions about how to stay current with technology and use whatever wealth we have accumulated for worthy purposes. And we stay clear of Fox News and the like. Your father sounds amazing.

I am a straight male and just fell head over heels in love with your dad.

I've been a liberal since I cold read the newspaper, and I'm 66.

There are really only two types of people at birth. WE people and ME people. Trump gives ME people permission to be their true selfish selves.

My dad is a 78 year old Vietnam vet (purple heart) who voted for Bernie Sanders in the 2016 and 2020 primaries.

He supports Black Lives Matter and has a pride flag on his balcony.

I feel so blessed to have this man as my dad.

I understand that things were different on many fronts for boomers growing up and when they were young adults, but it's not an excuse for being super judgemental and closed minded. It's strange to me that they have lived through several decades, all of which gave way to huge changes in technology, social norms, and the economy, and yet they are still so stuck in the long ago past. My parents are typical boomers in their political leanings and some other ways, but they also try to be open minded, which I really commend them for. My boyfriends mom is such a wonderful lady, but she doesn't get out much and acts like she's in her 80s when she's 70. She hates tattoos, thinks they are all trashy, and doesn't think colored hair is attractive. We try and educate her about people who identify as other genders, but you can tell she thinks it's weird and doesn't get it. (Although she would NEVER treat anyone poorly because of it, she is a very sweet lady.) I think that any boomer who tries to keep an open mind and treat other people decently no matter what race, gender, or orientation they are is ok. They just need to educate themselves about the way things work now through different sources and have non doomer attitude about things, but that's impossible for most of them.

Your dad sounds awesome.

Thank you. I seem to be the only progressive among the whole of the boomer generation in my extended family and friends. While I really cannot have meaningful discussions with them about anything it is the younger generations that instill some hope in me.

i am 63 and am more liberal than i was 30 years ago

We need more people like him ❤️

Progressive Boomer here finally someone that acknowledges that not all us Boomers are uptight assholes. Thank you!

This is nice to hear. I'm a boomer. I think my generation did a shit job with regards to some issues, and I try my hardest to rectify what I can in my own life. My friends and I have even agreed to "bitch-slap" each other if we get close to the "get off my lawn" attitude. I actually think quite highly of younger generations. I'm impressed with the young people that draw a hard line with others using racist speech and aren't afraid to confront someone publicly. I'm from the generation of women where being a lady was valued and we didn't "make scenes." Good on you guys for that one. I must hang with a group of really good people because I've rarely seen the boomer crap being complained about on Reddit. I do know it is out there.

Happy for you. My mum thinks piss can cure cancer. At least she's not racist, she sheltered and greatly helped a Kurde refuge to start a new life in our country. Make it even weirder she gets her information about healthcare from far right websites.

67 years old and you’re welcome. Trying to do my part to advocate for younger generations, particularly millennials, who seem to get the short end of the stick on a regular basis.

Thanks. It's hard being around people my age because so many are closed-minded RWNJs. I'd much rather hang out with you young lefty whipper snappers!

71 year old here. The selfish, hateful, bigoted, willfully ignorant behavior of some of my cohort is as disgusting to me as it is to most people who contribute here. I got reprimanded here a while ago for trying to point out that not all of us are MAGA morons so I appreciate your kind words.

Progressive boomers are extra cool. Every time

r/BoomersBeingCools

My mom is a progressive boomer. So we can’t lump them all together

This. My friend P's mom is in her 70's, former NOW chairwoman, utter rebel, and genuinely compassionate and kind person. You have to remember that they aren't this way because they were born this way. It's got to do with flaws in their early nurturing and education.

Thanks. I should tell you if you go on TikTok there's lots of liberal progressive boomers just like me and all my friends.

As a liberal minded boomer myself, hats off to your pop. Your brothers may have absorbed some of what he said but guessing they were more shocked that he said it to them.

I’m 62. Get more progressive each day but am probably more cynical than a gen X person. Every single election since 1980 I try to vote for the most progressive candidates but they are usually out of the race by November. My entire voting life has been watching the pair( presidential races) I liked least get the nomination. Just disheartening crap for years and now this. Ugh

Older Millenial here and I am going to have to work through the reason this post almost made me cry, but yes, thank you to Boomers who broke the mold. Also, I am sorry that you probably catch flack for just being your age, although you likely understand and handle it with grace.

48% of Boomers voted for Biden in 2020. Meanwhile 40% of millennials voted for Trump.

Your brothers sound like boomers. It’s a mind set, not an age. I have 2, 21 year old roommates, both boomers

My boomer mom who is brilliant, progressive, and happy spends more time laughing about the sad, angry, ignorant boomers than I do.

My mother is the oldest of four. Just a bit old to be a boomer, but her youngest sister certainly is. She and her husband live in a small town.

Spending time with my trans son, they embodied the difference between ignorance and bigotry. They don't know about transgender issues, and were curious but totally accepting. They just didn't know, wanted to know, and love their grand-nephew.

Not all boomers are fools.

This is my Boomer "never speaks up" Dad when one of his contemporaries start talking shit about unions.

Or my Boomer mom who gets the Official Ally Badge for going off on her brother saying queerphobic shit in my presence *without outing me to make the point* since I was out to close but not extended family.

They do exist.

Unfortunately, where I was raised that “me first and me alone” mentality is in pretty much all the generations at pretty much the same rate. And that’s despite the fact that they would actively benefit from these social programs. My father used to believe, as do I, that these fucks would be happy with socialized medicine, UBI, or a bevy of other social programs if there was a way to ensure that liberals and anyone who wasn’t white couldn’t qualify. 

My father was a lifelong R. Bush jr weakened his resolve, and by 2015 he was a full blown woke librul. I think my mom might have been in some organized tussles in the 70s.

My dad used to be a lifelong Republican. Worked as a volunteer on campaigns in the 80’s and 90’s.

He still says he never left the Republican Party. They left him.

I’m GenX and been noticing that our progressive boomer friends are generally the ones that are more fit and active and cognitively more sharp. Maybe it’s a sample bias, but it’s a strong trend. The conservative boomers we know sit on the couch yelling at Fox News all day and are not generally doing as well.

My parents are boomers, and, sure, they occasionally say things that are a little out of touch that I find irritating, but they're both pretty progressive. Voted for Bernie, support BLM, wouldn't stand for homophobia, etc. I appreciate them for that. They could probably work a bit on refraining from being critical of service workers and not pointing out someone's race when they're telling a story 🙄 but they usually land on the right side of things, thankfully. Glad they're not one of those couples that posts incessantly on Facebook about immigrants taking jobs or younger generations spending all their money on avocados.

It's weird, though.

The boomers were the hippies and yippies back in the day. SDS membership and all that.

The way I've come to see it, you don't become conservative usually. You just stop progressing.

Yessss. Please keep doing what you’re doing. Try to hold off becoming like the other boomer folks for as long as you possibly can. We need all the help we can get moving forward, instead of stagnating, or worst of all, further regressing as a species!

Your dad is tremendous. Glad he gave them the verbal slapping they deserved.

There aren't a lot of us, sadly, but we do exist!

My dad’s technically a bit too old to be a boomer (85, I’m Gen-X) but he’s a union-loving, non-religious, left-voting feminist and I love him to bits. He’s super nice to my gay and trans friends, too. It’s 💯attitude, not age.

I have two Boomer hippie parents who are still hardcore anti-conservative, anti-establishment. Not everyone lost their morals and hearts as they aged.

They can be silly Boomers in some ways (they are adorable with tech), but I'm definitely lucky.

I've actually become even more liberal as I get deeper into Boomerdom. We're not all hopeless

The boomer generation is huge and varied. That's why it was split in half.

My older brother is a Boomer I (born 1950) and a life-long Republican (the old-fashioned Goldwater/Reagan type, not the MAGA type, although he does watch a lot of Fox "News"). He was a conservative in college during the late 60s.

I'm a Boomer II or Generation Jones (born 1962) and a life-long Democrat. Also gay. Also pro-choice. Also pro-gender diversity. Also adamant about the separation of church and state. You couldn't pay me enough to vote for DT. In fact, you could hold a gun to my head in the voting booth and I would still refuse.

I'm not a subscriber to this sub, but it keeps popping up when I'm scrolling. Reading through some of the posts, I've been really surprised at the assumption that all Boomers are conservative. All of those teen and 20-something protesters in the late 60s were Boomers, and they can't all be conservative now. I think this thread is making that clear.

My boomer parents fit a lot of boomerisms but they are progressives and always have been. They messed me up in a lot of ways (lol) but I'll ALWAYS be grateful for their anti bigotry and open mindedness towards minorities. They had gay/POC friends growing up in the 1960s. I never heard racial slurs from them (I leaned those in school unfortunately), was always told it was ok to be gay, ok if I was gay (I'm not but it wasn't something you heard from other parents often). My father's best childhood friend was a black boy who died of AIDS in the 80s. He joked how awkward it was being the only straight and white guy at the funeral lol l but I can tell it really hurt him. They didn't raise me in religion either which I think was very positive. But yeah, in their age group it's a big anomaly

Progressive Boomer here. I was a teenage Republican, but more in the "Rockefeller Republican" mold that was from the 1970s that didn't want to blow up to social safety net (they would be considered Democrats now). My parents were Republicans, and I thought my sisters, both older than me, were too.

Well! I quit the R's after they nominated Ronald Reagan in 1980, and never looked back. Both of my sisters became Democrats as well, as did their husbands! So yes, we're out there.

This is a great story. Your dad's verbal smackdown deserves to go viral. Tell him "well done" for me.

Lord, what a relief. Boomer here, and I read these 'Boomer fools' posts pretty regularly. Many are horrifying. But the point seems lost in all this that every demographic (age,race,religion, sexual orientation, etc) has a population of morons, miscreants, and rightwing hatemongers. The ageist hatefests on this part of reddit are demoralizing, approaching scarry. Glad to see a brief ray of sunshine. Thanks, OP!

This sounds like my grandparents! I am so lucky to have them. They were all teachers, and they even get along with each other and work together to support people in the family!

I hope this post is ok bc I love it and needed some damn encouragement

My ex mother in law is still my favorite “liberal” boomer. Hates gay people and went hard supporting the Iraq War but fondly remembers protesting the Vietnam war and supporting civil rights.

That kind of hate isn’t really based on anything but the insecurities of the ones spewing it. People like that don’t even have real true opinions of their own. They just project their frustrations with their own lives by parroting what they read on the internet or see in the news. Which is nothing but constant us vs them garbage to keep people distracted from the fact that mega corporations are driving this planet into the ground so that a tiny percentage of people can be wealthy beyond anything most people will ever even comprehend.

The world is a great place with endless opportunity. Unfortunately that often gets overshadowed by greedy and/or ungrateful people. Especially in well developed nations where people are all spoiled as hell.

As a liberal Boomer who has marched for civil rights since I was 17, I thank you.

Thank you, my parents are definitely boomers but they're sweethearts. They love people and they love me and they are kind.

You've got a great dad there 😁

My parents are like this as well, and I am so grateful. They have their generalizations but they recognize they don’t fit today’s society and actually question their prior beliefs and do a bunch of research on why they might be wrong. They’re both really smart people and open to change. So proud of them.

My sister (a millennial like myself) is going down this route.

We were talking on the weekend at mother's day, and my sister was all about that private schools in Canada give a better education (they don't but they have the rich connections) and that there's so many "freshly landed immigrants" there at the schools.

Like, eff off with the inherent racism in that.

Your dad rocks. My dad sucks. Please accept my kind jealousy, as proof of yet another thing Canada has better on its American neighbor.

Clap him on the back and thank him for being him!

Great share! Your dad is awesome!

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That was beautiful. Give your folks all the love from way down here in swampland aka Florida.

My aunt is an all timer.

As a kid, took me to events that embraced diversity. Supported me financially when my parents couldn’t.

Shout out to all of the Aunt Peggy’s out there.

Shout out my dad

Congrats on winning the parent lottery ❤️🎉

I’m a Xennial married to a Boomer. The good ones are priceless treasures in this world.

The Pastor of my church is a progressive boomer and she makes me so so happy

Please tell your dad I'm proud of him. Id ask you to give him a hug for me since I cant give my own dad a hug any more, but I worry that might sound odd

My mom and dad are pretty good. My parents aren’t very outspoken and keep to themselves but they I’d consider them to be progressive. They have a foster son who they will have forever. His biological mom got the rest of the kids back but decided with his needs it was best for everybody if he stay with my parents. For the most part my dad just mows the grass and my mom bakes lol. They are in Canada too and watch or listen to CBC.

Correlation - No Facebook No Extremism.

I have two boomer parents as well (I’m gen-z, they had me older) and frankly they’re really amazing people.

My dad was born in Tennessee in 1953, a couple years before brown vs board (technically) ended segregation. He’s one of the most friendly, kindhearted people I’ve ever met. He was exposed to a lot of bigotry and hate growing up and yet I see none of that reflected in him today.

His younger brother came out to his family as gay in the late 1970s. They were raised by a single mother in the 60’s and she truly couldn’t care less that he was gay, because he was her son. I think her other children absorbed that mentality.

I think we get a lot of who we are from family. Obviously that doesn’t always hold true, but when I meet older people who are angry and bitter I always kind of believe their parents were probably that way too. ‘Boomer mentality’ really does affect all generations and not all boomers have it.

Im an Aussie living in Alberta. Some Canadian Conservatives are some of the stupidest people I’ve ever met. Glad your dad stood up to them 👍

This isn’t saying all Canadians Conservatives are that bad but fuck me there’s plenty of them in this province.

I wish my parents were like this lol

My parents are two of these rare birds, and I'm forever grateful.

Give him a hug from all of us please, it's rare for someone to express this level of clarity and compassion even in younger generations (as you witnessed from your siblings).

I can't express how grateful I am for my progressive boomer parents. I see so many other people's parents getting sucked into Fox news, and mine didn't, and that makes me so relieved.

im glad yer dad stood up fer ya and yer fambly. its important to 'member that not all boomers are the same - sum r truly carin' and understand the struggles of younger generations. yer dad soundz like a wise man, and im sure yer lucky to have 'im.

r/boomersbeingcool

Imagine shitting on immigrants seeking a better life in your country while giving zero thought to why they wanted to leave in the first place.

Imagine even believing in borders and not realizing it’s fucked up that we’re not all free to roam the earth like our ancestors were because of some fake lines we drew on a map.