Very true. Boomers lived through the Civil Rights Era and many took on a load of guilt they've been carrying around ever since. And the '60s radical turned conservative David Horowitz has written about how some older socialists and fellow travelers were poised and ready to exploit the upheavals of the '60s, and they did exploit that era for all it was worth.
I’m a 60’s radical turned conservative, and I remember those older socialists exploiting our feelings of guilt, pushing us further and further to the left.