Every generation is in a bi-directional relationship with both preceding and succeeding generations; baby boomers were influenced in their politics (and war craze) by their parents who lived through at least one world war — of course, you’re more likely to be pro-war if you’ve been told all your life how heroic it was to fight in WW2, to have saved the world no less. In turn, the following generation went the completely opposite way after seeing where that war craze led. You can’t view any generation in a vacuum.
Rob Muhlestein, meanwhile, criticizes younger generations (millennials?) for a low voter turnout leading to the apocalypse in the White House. But voter turnout in 2016 was actually almost 60%, much more than the 54.2% in the 2000 presidential election. It’s absurd to suggest that of all eligible voters aged 18 — 99, only a single generation was staying at home and somehow single-handedly responsible for the outcome. But even if that were the case: if the politics of the older generation don’t reach a majority of the people anymore, whose generation’s fault is that?
TL;DR* I think parents and children are inadvertently influencing each other in ways that make new generations try to screw up less, therefore eventually screwing up in different ways. It’s all connected, it’s all screwed up.
*for the older generations, in summary
