Ok, let’s just put aside the stats and look at it from this perspective:

• What generation in the last century was born into the high water mark for voter power in America? Put another way, who had the power to steer the country toward progressive policies with the least effort?
• What generation of voters approved the corporate capture of their government (by action/inaction)? Who removed guardrails on corporate taxes, monopolies, political spending, political transparency, etc…
• What generation is responsible for the narratives around voter apathy and political disengagement of Millennials, Zoomers and Alpha? Who was setting the example, who was responsible for teaching civic engagement? Who should have been pushing back?
• Who was supposed to be pushing back on the erosion of voting rights? How did extreme gerrymandering and regressive schemes to disenfranchise voters get in place?
• What generation had the most accessible education, the least debt, the strongest community support networks, the best access to healthcare, etc.? Put another way, who had the strongest personal security and least dependance on the system?
• What generation was up against the weakest right wing establishment? Who was in the landscape least flooded by disinformation and fox news style propaganda?

I’ll give you a hint, my cohort is 0/6 on those questions.

Are there material reasons boomers made those decisions? Sure. And I’m not saying that anyone else born into that time period would have magically done anything different. But I am saying that there is very scant blame left for anyone who comes after.

No other group of people in history has been born into such incredible political advantages and steered the plane directly into fascism in one lifetime. Hell, the people in Nazi Germany had just experienced the largest war in human history and were burning money for warmth.

So nah, I don’t want want to hear anyone lumping my generation with the people who spent a lifetime actively laying out the red carpet for fascists.