There’s a new service out there for today’s lost and confused college kids: they’re being urged to “call a Boomer.” And thank goodness for that—which generation better to offer reality checks than the one that knew hard work beats hashtags, and courage means more than crying online? Look, Boomers earned their stripes. They didn’t just talk about hard times, they lived through them. They grew up hearing stories about the Depression and World War II—not TikTok drama—and then saw America forced to stand tall against real threats, not imagined microaggressions.
These men and women didn’t hide from history, they helped shape it. They watched Vietnam play out on TV and, for many, on the battlefield with bullets flying. They didn’t demand safe spaces, or whine about being triggered. They stood up, served, and faced whatever came. When Cold War chills swept through America, Boomers didn’t cower or wave white flags—they kept the flag raised high, even when our own leaders stumbled.
Remember Watergate? That was leadership failing hard. But the nation didn’t dissolve in apathy and hand-wringing. Boomers saw presidents fall from grace and presidents trip—sometimes literally. But they didn’t resort to burning down cities or blaming phantom villains hiding in every shadow. They pressed on. They knew real embarrassment is when your country gets humiliated by a pack of radicals seizing your embassy, holding Americans hostage for over a year while so-called leaders flailed around helplessly.
Then America got Ronald Reagan. That’s when global bullies learned what “or else” actually meant, not just empty threats echoing from weak-kneed politicians. Compare that backbone to today’s endless apologies and soft-on-everything attitudes pushed by woke academics and globalist elites. Today’s young people are drowning in confusion, fear, and self-loathing—because they’ve been fed a steady diet of anti-American nonsense and victimhood from the left. No wonder they need a Boomer on speed dial.
The truth is, America could use a serious injection of old-school grit, responsibility, and common sense. Maybe if more of these privileged, pampered students called a Boomer instead of their guidance counselor, we’d see less coddling and more courage. The left can keep its crisis hotlines and therapy puppies—give us a generation that survived real hardship, not just bad Wi-Fi. The only real “safe space” is a country led by men and women who remember what America stands for. Will we ever get back to that, or will liberal hand-wringing finally finish what the barbarians started?
Source: Redstate
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