I'm a boomer. I'm an early boomer. I was born in 1947. It was a very good year to be born. I agree that millennials are getting a raw deal, but don't see it as part of some grand baby boomer conspiracy. I do see the millennials as being able to do far, far more to help themselves, if they voted in every election, including municipal elections and all primaries.
In a sense, I think every generation clings to power and doesn't treat the succeeding generations especially well. The 'greatest generation' became fixated upon America as policeman of the world and really screwed boomers with the Viet Nam war. The system of congressional leadership rewards long tenure, rather than the results of the most recent election, so that old goats who know how to use the levers of power to bring goodies back home have undue influence, increasing the influence of their whole generation.
It is a sad fact of human existence that as our brains age we become more resistant to change, because we are less able to adapt to change. We wax nostalgic for our youth, when our future seemed unconstrained by decisions we have long since made and our bodies had their full vigor and our minds still had their full power and sense of wonder. We are far more easily frightened than our fearless younger selves.
The exact year of our birth matters greatly, even small differences in birth year. I graduated college in 1969 into a great job market. My brother graduated two years later into an awful market. It launches your career differently.
The world has changed a lot in the last two decades. The Earth is reaching its carrying capacity of people, which is the prime cause of global warming. The huge advantage we had after WW II, as the result of the rest of the developed world being largely trashed and the third world being still subjugated by Europeans, is gone. We can blame globalization, but it was inevitable and is really just short-hand for the rest of the world was inevitably going to catch up with us and the third world was inevitably going to develop. Globalization means that productivity-adjusted wages across the globe will inevitably approach equality for every job which is in any way portable. That has flattened wages for all but the top 10%, further frightening the older voters.
The United States demographics are changing a lot and that terrifies the Boomers, but especially those even older. We are seeing the revolt of the white evangelicals, who still pine for the days of white, male, conservative Christian supremacy and will vote for anyone who promises that.
We live in an increasing mobile society. That destroys a sense of place and community.
I shudder to think the Democratic Party may choose among a group of baby boomer candidates for president in 2020. I'm 70. I well know the diminishment of my capabilities over the past 30 years. I felt cheated, after the youngish Obama, to go back to a choice between Clinton and Bernie in 2016. To have to choose among Biden, Bernie, and Warren in 2020 would just be too cruel.
President Trump hasn't aged well and was no genius to begin with, but I think we are seeing the perils of a guy in his 70s as president. I'm old enough to well remember Reagan's decline. My father remembered the perils of even the great FDR as president in his nearly dead state.
Generations blame each other, but it is the top 0.1% of a generation, in terms of wealth and position, who control virtually everything.