So do Baby Boomers get to blame the “Greatest “Generation”?
Sure, why not? It seems that the Blame Game coincides with the the widespread affluence among all classes of people, and that started after WW2. America’s poorest citizens today still live better than most the Middle class of Europe. I never heard my parents (Mom is 93 and Dad is gone now) criticize their parents’ generation as there was true suffering (by our standards) back then, but it was widespread - people were thinner because there wasn’t that much food to eat compared with today. Houses were cold because heating them cost money. Many were first and second generation immigrants from the 1860-1890s and no one expected anything from anyone other than through their own initiative. I’m a first wave Boomer at 67, but this group also includes people 50 years old. Lots of variance in that big Transitional Cohort from widespread poverty to widespread affluence and back again in the Cycle of Life.