Anyone who thinks it started that late in America is way off, and as far as boomers and the 1970s running TV and Hollywood and the Universities, the military, congress, the Senate, courts etc, and publishing houses and the magazine industry and newspapers, since 1984 was the first presidential election that all boomers were old enough to vote in, it is clear that they were not running and owning the institutions of America.
In 1975 the oldest boomer was 29, the youngest (Sarah Palin) was 11 years old, does anyone really want to say that the 11 year olds and 20 year olds, run America's institutions, or that they will be 10 years from now?
Some ignoramuses never get tired of bashing Boomers. When Goldwater ran for president in 1964, the oldest Boomer would have been only 18. The campaign conducted against Goldwater by the press and tv reporters was as vicious as anything done against later Republicans like Reagan. Goldwater was generally depicted as a racist pyschopath who couldn’t wait to start WWIII. Nixon was scarcely portrayed any better. I guarantee you all the pols who voted in all the terrible liberal legislation of the sixties were definitely not Boomers.