The liberal radicals from the boomer generation infested six key areas: education, politics, religion, news, law, and entertainment. This allowed them to influence discourse and perception far more than their numbers indicate they should.
It is an unfortunate fact of life that perception is reality. Far too many X- and Y-Gen'ers know only that the baby boom generation radicalized the 60s, became the hippies and "stopped" the war in Vietnam. Unfortunately, they don't know anything about the majority of us who worked, took responsibility and fought against the creeping socialism that others in our generation supported.
We weren't all "Peter Pan" and we didn't all become conservatives later in life - we were always there. Unfortunately, the legacy created by the radical wing of the boomers is how we are all known.
And the X- and Y-Gen'ers aren't smart enough, yet, to question their conventional knowledge.