Baby boomers Ruined America: Why Blaming Millennials is Misguided — and Annoying

[jeff47]

53. Those are rather poor comparisons

First, you're comparing a generation that is retiring to the accomplishments of a generation in their 20s or younger.

Second, you're ignoring what Boomers accomplished after the mid 1970s. Probably because after that, the boomers brought about the "Reagan revolution". The core of the modern conservative movement is younger boomers and older GenX. Those are the people who dominated politics for the last 40 years, and accomplished all those tax cuts and destruction of the social safety net.

Older boomers tend to be liberal. Younger GenXers tend to be liberal. Unfortunately, we failed to form a coalition between these two groups to counter the conservative movement, and so conservatism has dominated our national politics for 40 years. You can't blame that failure on "the kids today spending too much time on Facebook" or "today's music sucks".