The greatest generation. They saved the world during WW 2 and the cold war. Plus gave to the world one of its greatest Popes, Blessed, soon to be declared a saint, John Paul II.
Also voted for a progressive president four times and shackled future generations to Social Security and ever increasing federal power. Did a lousy job raising their kids.
I guess we'll have to agree-to-disagree; the only cycle I see us going through is the Tytler cycle, which requires some very dark times before generations get better.
Those generations destroyed Western Civilization with a flurry of immigration laws and leftism of the 1930s through the 1970s which made it impossible to recover from, they gave us the Cold War which boomers and the Silent Generation fought and died in for the next 45 years.