I’m a Gen Xer, I was raised to believe that the police were our friends and there if we needed help…. That was a lie. (Keep it going) What were you told growing up that was a lie? #GenXLies
@r8dr4lfe75 Luckily, I wasn't raised with that lie. But I was raised with the lie that capitalism is good.
@r8dr4lfe75 I'M A BOOMER AND WAS TOLD WE HAVE DEMOCRACY AND IF YOU WORK HARD...............
@r8dr4lfe75 High school US history class was all about how in every war America was the good guy protecting the world from evil doers: Russians, Drug Dealers (Columbians especially), Terrorists (Middle east but also northern Irish), Confederates, and the CIA (Jack Ryan) are great!
@r8dr4lfe75 Always harassed me left home 1975 poisoned family 15yrs old slepqted in vw bug worked 40hrs a week lived behind Chinese restaurant chased alcoholic mother around the bars being homeless is not a crime taking their tents away is
@r8dr4lfe75 That the USA are the good guys
@r8dr4lfe75 Oswald killed Kennedy. Russia was evil. Sirhan killed Bobby. Ray killed King. That US foreign policy was not merely for economic, political, and military domination of all other nation - including America.
@r8dr4lfe75 They were the ones who arrested surfers. They are not your friend.
@r8dr4lfe75 That we were all equal under the Law. That the government was there to serve the common people too. That elections were honest. #Boomerlies