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.
We do know all that. But still, the Boomers are, overall, a looser, more tolerant (in a bad way) and whacked out group then any generation prior. It is undeniable. There was no real concept of a youth revolution prior to the 1960s. The 1920s were the closest thing, and by comparison, tame.