[Free Vulcan]

Actually most of the Greatest Generation weren’t even of voting age yet when FDR came around, which back then was 21 right? It was their predominately their parents, the WWI generation, that voted him in.

And their parents put Woodrow Wilson in 20 years earlier.

[Fiji Hill]

Actually most of the Greatest Generation weren’t even of voting age yet when FDR came around, which back then was 21 right? It was their predominately their parents, the WWI generation, that voted him in.

In my post, I didn't mention FDR. I referred to Truman's Fair Deal, Kennedy's New Frontier, and Johnson's Great Society.

It is noteworthy that the Statist Generation was firmly in charge of the country in 1950 when Lionel Trilling wrote,

In the United States at this time Liberalism is not only the dominant but even the sole intellectual tradition. For it is the plain fact that nowadays there are no conservative or reactionary ideas in general circulation.

However, it is, indeed, true that too many voters of previous generations have been straying away from the values that made this country great.