Ep. 7: Baby Boomers Had It All… And They Burned It Down

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🗓️ 17 June 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Join Pastor Dale Partridge as he examines how the Baby Boomer generation inherited the prosperity, institutions, and cultural capital built by their parents, yet often consumed those resources for short-term gain rather than preserving them for future generations. In this episode, he argues that the Boomers functioned like generational locusts, stripping the nation of much of its inherited glory while leaving a diminished inheritance for those who followed.

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0:00.0	Today, on American Glory, we're examining the rise and fall of the baby boomer generation,
0:04.7	how they became the most privileged economically powerful and culturally influential generation
0:08.7	in American history and how they turned into the most self-centered and culturally
0:13.2	destructive generation the world has ever seen. Now, my weekly audit, I'm going to be discussing
0:17.8	the unequal economies between boomers and past generations
0:21.5	and why we need more older people in young, bold churches. All that and more coming up right now. Welcome to American Glory.
0:43.7	This is Season 1 on American Identity.
0:45.9	I'm your host, Dale Partridge.
0:47.4	This is episode number seven titled Baby Boomers Had It All, and they burned it all down.
0:53.5	Each season, I'm going to be covering an American theme with eight episodes. Now, if you didn't know, American Glory is both a podcast and a video show. And if you want to listen, you can listen on the NXR podcast feed or on my personal podcast feed. Just search Dale Partridge's podcast anywhere. And you're going to find me on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, wherever you want to listen to your podcast. Now, if you want to watch the video, which I suggest that you do,
1:14.6	because it comes with helpful slides, graphics, video clips, it can really feel like a documentary.
1:20.6	You can watch it on my YouTube channel at Dale Partridge TV. Now, next season, I'm going to be
1:25.4	covering American Christianity. I'm going to be covering
1:28.4	everything from colonial Christian nationalism to the Puritan view of slavery. I'm going to talk about
1:33.0	dispensationalism, the effeminacy of the modern church, and of course the debate between Roman Catholics
1:38.0	and Protestants. Now, if you have been following along our last episode, I examined the 1964 Civil Rights Act
1:46.8	and how it birthed white guilt, minority entitlement, and destroyed natural social pressures
1:53.5	that once encouraged assimilation. Now, if you've been following along, I've taken you on a
1:59.6	pretty long journey here, right?
2:01.1	We've gone through America's political history over the past probably about 150 years,
2:06.4	from the pre-war consensus to the post-war consensus.
2:09.2	We've seen how the trauma of two world wars basically let America's elites to engage in
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