"Boomers seem very resistant to understanding that the living standards"....

[Sympthsical]

161. My first election was in 2000

And I'm at the upper cusp of being a Millennial.

These problems and systems were in place long before we got here. These student loan systems were firmly established by the time I entered college. Certain politicians made student loans even harder to manage well after I had left college.

So this, "You should've voted!" is disingenuous. When? I don't think the class elections in elementary school counted for much. And, lest anyone not understand this, certain prominent politicians currently in office backed the financial legislation that made the mess so much worse. So how does that track? The bankruptcy bill in 2005 had 18 Democratic Senators pulling for it. People I voted for (and continue to vote for).

Sure, with Republicans it would've been a lot worse. But, what, "If only you had voted harder for the guy who helped do this to you!" What is that explanation? How is that a logical response to anything at all?

I always vote Democratic. Probably always will. But "Vote harder!" when people I do vote for happily stick the knife into my generation is not a valid answer.

We need better answers, and older generations need to recognize the problem. Why would politicians change when a good chunk of their own party is saying, "Don't give people free stuff!"

The older generations have to start taking some responsibility for the consequences of what they've done. And part of that accountability is creating and/or supporting solutions to the problems they've helped create. The stereotype of Boomers is that they're a highly selfish generation who make everything about themselves (Remember, the Me Generation?).

These responses aren't doing a whole lot to dispel that stereotype. Just putting that out there. It's not like the Greatest Generation ran around shirking responsibility and declaring "Not our problem, everyone!" Imagine if they had.