Just keep reminding yourself that they're the generation who drasticly expanded the Big Government social welfare state.
"And I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale."-- Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, May 28, 1816
"Just keep reminding yourself that they're the generation who drasticly expanded the Big Government social welfare state."
Just keep in mind that they're the generation that fought Hitler, too.