Ashamed of My Generation

By Terry McGahey
Oct 23, 2025 

I am a baby boomer, and I am truly ashamed of many people within my generation. 

Watching many of the boomer generation protesting against President Trump, calling him a fascist, calling him Hitler, and stating that he is ruining democracy. First off, we are not a true democracy. We are a Constitutional Federal Republic that operates on democratic principles. 

A true democracy does not and will not work in our country because the East and West coast areas carry the most votes, which means that the middle of our country would, in essence, have no say. The situation in a true democracy would actually take away democracy for many folks who live in the center of the country, and what is referred to as flyover states.

Now don't get me wrong, there are many boomers who are American Patriots, but we are not the ones out hollering, screaming, dancing around carrying signs and making fools of ourselves. If you want to know who these people are, in my opinion, it's mostly the old dope smoking, cocaine sniffing, pill-popping hippies of the Sixties Era. These old hippies are the ones who marched against the Vietnam War. 

Now don't take me wrong, that war was a mess, and those people had the right to protest the government over that war, and I have no problem with people peacefully protesting. That is their right, and no matter how I feel about things, I will stand up for their right to do so.

 
These old burnt-out hippies are the same ones who took out their anger on the soldiers who were lucky enough to come home alive from Vietnam. Many of these soldiers were drafted, and as most of us realize, once you are in the military, you have no choice in your deployment. They had no choice. 

When many of our soldiers returned home, what did these old hippies and college students do? They spit at them and called them horrible names, such as "baby killers" and other terrible things. How is this any different than what's going on with these old hippie boomers today? Some of these old hippies are calling for violence against the average patriots who believe in saving our country against the Socialist/Communist movement. This is only my opinion, and if no one likes my opinion, that's too damn bad because I couldn't care less.

If you don't believe the far left is for Socialism and even Communism, Mamdani in New York proves that belief because he is a known Communist. All one has to do is look at who is at the top of the Democratic Party. AOC, who lied about her being from the Bronx, Crockett, who does nothing but race-bait, Schiff, who is a proven liar, Sanders, who is an admitted Socialist, Omar, who has even made the statement about how she is watching out for Somalia, and Tlaib, who is purely a radical, then old Schumer, who is no better. These are the people who now control the Democrat Party, or should I just call it what it is, "The Socialist Party of America."

 
These people like to call themselves Democratic Socialists. Yes, we have some socialist programs, but we are not a socialist run country. Once we allow any type of Socialism to become powerful within our government, including the so-called Democratic Socialists, we will have lost our country as we have known it. 

Socialism is like a malignant cancer. Once those views get power, it will only grow and grow until we become a third-world country, which is what they truly want, because they will then be able to keep control from then on, and this is what the movement is really about. 

Just look at California if you want to get a glimpse of Democratic Socialism. How do you control the people? You control people through regulation, heavy taxes, and phony green energy bills, or others who are making people like Al Gore and others very wealthy while they fly around the country in those expensive jets and drive vehicles like Hummers. But, don't you do it. Do as I say and not as I do. If they are not Socialists, then tell me, what the hell are they?

One more thing. The Democratic Socialist Party is all for the violence and disruption going on within our country, and I can prove this without doing miles of research, and it's really very simple to prove this. When have you ever heard one of the top Democrats speak out against the violence with ANTIFA or others? I've only heard one Democrat politician, and he is Sen. John Fetterman (PA), who condemns his fellow Democrats.

Democrats haven't condemned the violence because they support it. When you don't speak out against the violence and disruption, then you agree with it. That's simple proof without digging into it any further.

Terry McGahey is a writer and Old West historian.

This once-working cowboy is best known for his epic battle against the City of Tombstone and its historic City Ordinance Number 9, America's most famous gun-control law.

Terry was instrumental in finally repealing Tombstone City Ordinance Number 9. He is directly responsible for compelling the City of Tombstone to adhere to Arizona's laws.

If you'd like to read about his epic battle against the City of Tombstone, click here: The Last Gun Fight -- The Death of Ordinance Number 9 (Chapter One)