I will say this about my generation, politically speaking in our youth we were remarkably apolitical.
There was no draft, there was great prosperity, abortion was not a hot button issue since we never knew a country without it. We can say that in our youth our biggest issue was Atari or Intellivision, as we came of age SNES or Genesis.
We were shocked a cheating presidential candidate was an issue since half of our friends seemingly went through the same thing at home. Being inappropriate at work was frequently common, especially if you worked with all women as I did one summer they put men to shame.
The world seemed to slip off the rails ever so slowly to the point where even someone that had green hair in high school, had gay friends, hated MTV and was more likely to know the Dead Kennedys than Dan Quayle are like WTF is up with kids today?
We were blessed with so much and so little was asked from us for so long I truly wonder if we know how to fight back against insanity.
“I will say this about my generation, politically speaking in our youth we were remarkably apolitical.”
It depends. I grew up in a politically active family. My mom worked in the grass roots with Women for Reagan. Sure, I grew up being cynical about a lot of things, including government, but I did have my political beliefs. That said, even my apolitical friends were getting nervous about the rise of PC culture when we were in college in the 1990s. I knew a few who stayed on the left and have continued to follow it off the cliff. However, most of my friends have become more conservative, and politically active - that tends to happen when you have kids and pay bills.