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 Boomers: believers in the scientific directorate, believers in socialism, believers in "democratic institutions", lovers of the British monarchy. They entrust the financial system with one man with one knob, then declare him the savior after the country recovers from an absolute fleecing.
The boomers entrust the medical establishment with 1/4 of the federal budget, allow pharmaceuticals to be advertised on the airwaves, allow doctors to take bribes for prescribing "life-saving" medications that turn out to kill, allow them to dictate whether their grandchildren should have their genitals removed, and they thank them while their heart beats its last.
They entrusted their children to the state's prison-like indoctrination day camps, insist they graduate to further and more comprehensive brainwashing in state-sponsored laboratories by hopelessly captured and embonded "experts" with high-sounding letters after their name and imbued with the title "doctor." Then the boomers sputter indignantly when their children return, spouting hatred for everything their parents held dear and hoped to pass onto their progeny. But no, they stand rejected, then discount the whole affair as "independent minded" with the mindset it was all an unavoidable destiny due to their "personality."
They consume poisons, knowing better in their youth, but in their old age they accept mercury laden HFCS, Frankenstein fish-corn plants sprayed with highly toxic fish-tank cleaner, petroleum, and plastic off gas and diffusate, not-fit-for-human-consumption soy products and refined seed oils, never expose their skin to the sun, or their feet to the earth, never feel the warmth of a wood fire or even an incandescent lightbulb, never sweat in a sauna, instead fly above the troposphere and expose themselves to high-energy radiation while breathing perfume solvents and jet fuel. Then they accept that people "just die of natural causes" with cancer, embolisms, and heart failure.
If given the choice between an adult child who speaks these truths, and one that spouts the directorates' authoritarian declarations of indisputable scientific truth, they will trustingly follow the guide rails all the way to the slaughterhouse.