How Boomers Can Save What’s Left Of America For Younger Generations

Article author: 
Joy Pullmann
Article publisher: 
The Federalist
Article date: 
2 October 2026
Article category: 
Our American Future
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... In their childbearing and prime income years, boomers were born into a more unified culture, with much less competition from foreign markets and migrants, far more plentiful family-wage-earning jobs that didn’t require college degrees, far cheaper college for the minority suited for it, far lower inflation for core survival costs, stronger families with less divorce and working mothers, less crime, higher church attendance, higher rates of volunteering for everything from PTA to Little League, fewer cross-country moves from family to obtain a job, more cultural cohesion, and less-woke public schools where students spoke English.

Boomers did not deserve any of those things because of merit; these are a gifted civilizational inheritance that helped them succeed. Yet, as a generation, boomers have passed down none of this to their children and grandchildren...

It is an abdication of duty to spend 20, 30 retirement years consuming pleasures rather than leaving an eternal legacy for the people God placed you near...

My most recent book, False Flag, argues that family disintegration is a root cause of America’s political and cultural disintegration...

We need the richest generation in world history to offset the malevolent influences of billionaires like George Soros...

You see, the Cold War didn’t fully end. It was imported into American schools, workforces, and media. So, paradoxically, the young have been taught to blame capitalism for the consequences of socialism. The distress young Americans feel, combined with their public school-induced ignorance about Christianity, history, and economics, opens their souls to communism...

A poll out this month found 59 percent of Democrat Party voters support the Democrat Socialists of America, which is just a communist front group...

So I divide the world into collectivism and ordered liberty...

Russ Greene points out that Communist China redistributes less wealth than the United States does...

Now, the Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman has explained, “Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.” This means inflation happens when governments spend more than they tax. Their only honest options for fixing this are raising taxes or cutting spending. The third, dishonest, option is printing money. That is already happening, and the size of this debt bomb is why it’s going to continue...

The most important thing boomers have failed to pass on to their children is Christianity. This is far more important than money, because faith is where humans get meaning, direction, purpose, and true fulfillment...

... Americans of every age need to stop whining and take responsibility for our lives...