It is a fact that boomers of the left and right are getting older, as are the younger generations. There is some solid historical precedent to support my contention that their voting habits and policy decisions will be drastically different, and more conservative, than we have seen in recent decades.
Personally, I like the idea of leaving our children a more conservative society than the one we have lived through, and there is good reason to believe that it will be.
Nope. As the Gen-Xrs leave home and start their families they will become less and less beguiled by the social Darwinism of their youth. The Gen-Xrs are already crying for government to stop companies outsourcing their "jobs" and as their kids mature they will be applying for student loans and as they retire they will be demanding all they have paid into social security be paid back to them and their kids will be decrying the selfishness of the Gen-xrs.