Very few boomers were hippies, so don’t over generalize. I and very many like me have been working at least since we were 16, served in the military, many as a career, educated ourselves and have worked hard to try to give our kids a solid start in life.
Unfortunately, many (not all) of our kids go for the National Socialist Democrat Party give aways and vote democrat. Not the way they were raised and many are hard workers and responsible parents; they just don’t understand history, what socialism is, or the Constitution and the freedoms that are being removed.
Yeah, many of the boomers who were hippies and socialist agitators are now in high positions in government and industry. They had the time, the family money, the notoriety, the sponsors to worm their way up the ladders while the rest of us worked to make a better life.
We never considered ourselves to be special, at least not like some of our worthless co-boomers and many of our offspring but of course we will be blamed for the sea of $h!t that they and their democrat stars create for us all.
When it all falls apart, remember that your generation voted for this in large numbers.
And I would say don’t generalize yourself about the youth vote.
My generation is largely conservative/libertarian, at least 50/50. I don’t think the generation behind us votes as liberal as you think. Most I deal with are fairly libertarian. At least in the midwest anyway. If you’re in an urban area or the coast, I imagine they vote no more or less liberal than preceding generations.