Like the many baby boomers out there, this grand dog is growing older. He still chases squirrels and can bark like a puppy when the dreaded mail carrier visits, but his activities are limited and he naps a lot. He's been a loved dog, but I bet he has some regrets (like getting kicked out of doggy day care) as he reflects on his life. I thought about him as I read Robert Reich's interview this morning a small part of which I am abstracting and sharing here:
The title of your memoir ... refers to your argument that your generation failed to strengthen democracy, failed to reduce economic inequality and, generally, failed to contain “the bullies.”
What went wrong? We took for granted what our parents and their parents bequeathed to us .... The so-called greatest generation gave us not only peace and prosperity but the largest middle class the world had ever seen. What I try to understand is how we ended up with Donald Trump. Trump is the consequence, not the cause, of what we are now experiencing. He is the culmination of at least 50 years of a certain kind of neglect. And I say this very personally, because I was part of this failure. It is a reckoning that is deeply personal...
Yikes, as a member of that baby-boomer crowd, sadly, I am part of the failure, and this reckoning is painful and personal.
The stock market is booming
Never seen before numbers but
We failed
To strengthen democracy, reduce economic inequality.
To contain bullies,
We took for granted
Peace, prosperity, decency
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