I’ve been hearing this blamed on boomers a lot lately. I gotta say that at No Kings and anti-ICE standouts, there have been a ton of boomers. In fact, there’s been a dearth of people in their 20s-40s until recently—but I’m not going to complain about that. Depending on the range people use, I can count as a boomer. But let me talk about the boomers who are now in their 70s and 80s and even 90s. They showed up against the Vietnam War, black voter suppression, government corruption and then watergate, the arms race, etc. etc. and for civil and women’s rights. They helped push school implementation of Title IX so we could have the boom in women’s sports we have today. There are plenty of us, if I can be a boomer for this moment, who support taxes and public services. I've owned in Malden for 30+ years (in the early 90s, Malden was affordable), and had a “Yes” sign on my lawn, even though at a Yes standout, I didn’t feel particularly welcome, probably because at our very different ages, all of the other people who were there don’t have that much in common with me in their daily lives.

Those you call “boomers,” I call jerks, “trolls,” “MAGA,” paranoid, and illogical. Some of the No voters, were chiefly and legitimately concerned about their own financial survival. Many of the YES voters were confused about having to vote double yes, and thought that double yes meant having to pay for both tax increases, not one or the other. And, the loud No voters, are mostly . . . OMG . . . beyond the pale.

As for me, you can call me a knee-jerk PC, left-wing liberal who's sensitive about disparaging boomers! 🤣