I resent the stereotype of boomers as being liberal and selfish. I cut my political teeth on Barry Goldwater's 64 campaign. Most boomers were not liberals, hippies, drug users or hedonistic. The only real problem with boomers is our numbers.
Same here, brother. I was in junior high and head of my school's "Youth For Goldwater" club. We need our own organization -- kids who grew up right wing, reading Buckley and getting their first taste of politics with AuH2O. There are a lot of us! (And I still have my 1964 Goldwater campaign material -- still sounds like a good platform, too.)
Can you picture someone from the Greatest Generation "resenting" how they are portrayed by others? That's a part of the shift of attitude from responsibilty and duty to entitlement. And before you accuse me of idealizing the past, I've seen the effects of the same difference in attitude, with my own eyes, in Japan. As my older relatives keep telling me, things used to be "nice", a word you rarely hear anymore. Why? Because used to actually care what other people thought of them. They had a duty and responsiblity to make things "nice" for others, not an entitlement not to be criticized by others. And plenty of things are "nice" in Japan for hte same reason. And, yes, I'm quite aware that all of that "niceness", both in early-to-mid-20th Century America and in modern Japan, covers up some real nastiness but I can't help but think that we've tossed the baby out with the dirty bathwater.
But percentage-wise, social degenerates form a larger fraction of the Boomers than of other generations. The Boomer generation, as a group, destroyed tradition. Sure there are exceptions to this overall situation, but the social destruction which occured after the Boomers started to come of age is obvious. It's really hard to build it all back.