Remember, the "Greatest Generation" gave us a big dose of welfare state socialism--the Fair Deal, the New Frontier, the Great Society, and Dewey/Eisenhower/Rockefeller/Nixon's "Modern Republicanism," whose adherents are today known as RINO's. Perhaps they should be known as the Statist Generation.
I made the same point recently on another whining GenX thread.
People who want to take the intellectually lazy way out, and blame the Boomers for all of our current woes, are ignoring at least a half century of US history.
Our slide down into the morass we're in today, didn't start with the Boomer generation, nor even with their parents. It began much further back than that. The fact that we're even still standing as a nation, is a testament to the root strength of the American system, and our basic culture.
As Prospero said upthread: "Spare me the collectivist nonsense. Whatever unfairness one might perceive in self-identifying as a Generation-X'er or advantage misapplied to a "boomer," all such distinctions are interesting but essentially without much use or meaning."
We're all in this boat together, folks. We need to row together in one direction, and quit trying to foist blame for the current situation on just one generation of Americans.
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.