I still don't understand

How the 80's and 90's, the height of Boomers, were absolutely fraught with moral panics and fears, and now, they couldn't be bothered that there is an actual pedophile as president.

Like, in their prime, they couldn't go a week without some moral outrage. When there is an actual reason for moral outrage, they just say, "Suck it up."

How did they get to this place?!

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OlderSometimesWiser · F

I can only speak for this Boomer who is absolutely mortified by who was chosen as president. The only reason I don’t speak about or focus on it more is because it makes me physically and emotionally sick.

But let me give you just one example of how President Bone Spurs still manages to slither into my consciousness. I was watching a Netflix documentary on the Air Force Thunderbirds. The Thunderbirds perform for people all around the world to display the pride, precision and professionalism the US Air Force represents. Magnificent group of men and women dedicated to excellence and service to our country.

And when I thought about this President of the United States being the Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force, it literally made me want to cry. The man is not fit to shine their shoes.

FoxyQueen · 51-55, F

@OlderSometimesWiser My comment is more along the lines of how often Boomers created these situations of moral depravity, like gangs, Satanic panic, Enron, ebonics, drugs, etc. They always had something to be morally outraged over, even while a majority of these things didn't actually affect them or have any impact to their lives, but somehow got their cages rattled anyways.

And a lot of it was that the media was trusted more at the time and the internet wasn't quite in existence to determine if the latest fad moral decline is actually happening or if the facts are correct, which is also extremely problematic. The media saw their ratings go up as people tuned in to see what they should be up in arms about this week and programmed accordingly without any concern about what the end implications are going to be, which ended up usually being super shitty.

But now that we have the internet to learn if things are factual, and that the things they should be morally upset about are actually true, they couldn't give a single shit about.

When did that change happen? When did they finally decide morals weren't worth bothering over? Considering how much damage they did back in the 80's and 90's, you would think they'd keep that up because drama and fearmongering was fun.