How do Atlasers feel about the Silent Generation?

[King of Kensington]

There's a lot of "OK boomer" type posts.  I don't think we have any silents who are at least 77 or 80 depending on whether one uses 1942 or 1945 as a cutoff.  The oldest Silents are in their nineties.

[Alben Barkley]

Atlas generally loves Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders, who are both members of the Silent Generation. So there's that.

[King of Kensington]

Boomers get far too much credit, and Silents too little, for The Sixties.

[Mr. Smith]

More respect for them and GGs honestly, since they actually had to deal with The Great Depression.

[the artist formerly known as catmusic]

My grandma is from the very early part of that generation (1929) and I love her very much despite some of her...interesting views. And I miss who she was before the dementia got bad. I'm just glad she remembers me still.

All my grandparents were silent generation I think? I think they all shared a few similar characteristics of being incredibly stubborn and really having a hard time "passing the torch" so to speak. But I have mad respect for what they all lived through.

No generation is inherently "good" or "bad" - people are far more complex than that.

[Samof94]

Boomers get far too much credit, and Silents too little, for The Sixties.

Boomers I associate more with the 70's

[King of Kensington]

More respect for them and GGs honestly, since they actually had to deal with The Great Depression.

The earlier half of the Silent Generation went through the Depression as childhood, the latter half would be too young to remember or weren't yet born. 

[TheElectoralBoobyPrize]

My grandparents are all Silent Generation so I would say I feel positively. I did butt heads with my paternal grandfather some, but we still loved each other.

[LBJer]

Favorable on the whole.  I have a cousin who was born in 1929, and she and I get along well.  She was good-looking her whole life and still is.

When I think of the Silent Generation, I also think of a number of the characters on Mad Men--Peggy, Joan, Pete, Trudy, Megan--who were from that generation.  BTW, Joan was born on February 24, 1931, so she'd be 92 today and would have turned 91 the day Russia invaded Ukraine.

I often think I'd like to have been born in 1937 instead of 1977, which would have made me a member of that generation. That way I would have lived through--and been able to take part in--the 60s, and experience the presidency of LBJ, my favorite president.  At the same time, I could also have lived through everything I actually have lived through in real life--I wouldn't have to be exceptionally old (85) to still be around today.   

[HillGoose]

generations arent real bruh they were made up by the man to divide the sheeple

any 80 year olds who are based as F can still hang idc, generations r fake news

[dead0man]

not a fan (aren't they like 90% Trump supporters?)

[Alben Barkley]

not a fan (aren't they like 90% Trump supporters?)

No...

65+ as a whole was just 51-48 Trump, and there is some evidence suggesting older Boomers were more pro-Trump than Silents let alone the remaining GG.