Boomers invented the self-esteem movement. The damage the Boomers have done to the nation, to the youth and to our future will be undone. It will be undone by the children of Gen X and Gen Y.
Obama did indeed get a larger share of the “Youth” vote than Kerry. That is because of 2 things:
#1. Anchor Babies (born at the beginning of the Reconquista 1990) coming of age.
#2. John Kerry was a freaking corpse with a cool factor of -1000.
18-36 year old’s don’t run industry, govt or control the levers of power. Currently baby boomers do and that is about to change - Thank GOD!
Take a real good look at the kids Gen X and Gen Y is raising:
1. Don’t buy the lie that these kids are spoon-fed brats who spend all their time playing video games. Youth Sports is a huge industry that thousands of people make a living in full time now for a reason. Clubs like USATF, AAU (http://www.aausports.org/) etc. have their largest youth memberships in their history.
2. They are more religious than their parents and grandparents - discovering god and Christ on their own.
3. Racism is a strange concept they are forced to study in the History books and they are not shackled by Afro-centric identity or White Guilt.
4. Environmentalism is a joke pushed on them by their teachers that only the most gullible of their friends buy into.
5. They have pictures in the family photo-album of themselves as a 4D sonogram in their mothers womb. Pro-Life is very hip and Abortion is abhorrent. Just look at the movies targeted at the budding sexually active. (MTV’s “16 & Pregnant”, “Juno” etc.) These generation don’t want to see depictions of knocked up teens getting rid of their “problem” as in the 1982 flick “Fast Times at Ridgemont High”. 14-24 year old’s want to spend their cash & time viewing depictions of knocked up teens stepping up to the plate and becoming mothers and fathers.
Most importantly, Kids today have little to no interaction with Baby Boomers - this sadly includes their own grandparents. The narcissistic selfish virus that is the Baby Boomers has ironically self-quarantined.
However the Baby Boomers will leave a few deep wounds that could still prove fatal to our children.
#1. The Boomer price tag will come due as a 20 Trillion Dollar high interest credit card by the time the last Boomer is dead.
#2. Boomers have single-handedly created a culture of divorce however the The nation’s divorce rate peaked to record levels in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s. Hopefully this trend will fade out. Maybe future Gen X dominated State legislatures will do away with no-fault unilateral divorces.
The oldest boomer didn't become 36 until 1982, the youngest boomer reached age 36 in the year 2000, so I think that we can look at the rest of your post with that in mind.
Also, your current, under 30 crowd of 66% Obama voters are not the little conservatives that you portray them as.