Your post is amusing. The reason is that you are correct in passing the blame onto the generation prior to the boomers. But you are missing something: there is an entire generation born from 1924-1944 who did not (generally) participate in WWII. But they had to deal with the depression as very young children. This is called the Silent Generation.
They are the children of WWI vets. They were Korean War vets. They liked IKE and JFK. That is the group that was generally in charge of government and business from the mid sixties to the mid eighties. Their most well known people were MLK, Neil Armstrong, etc. many fought in Vietnam Nam. They are the ONLY generation in American History not to elect a President. That tells you how ineffective and weak they are.
These things go in four gen cycles. The Millenials are the start of another cycle. Those in the first cycle are the “heroes” who deal with economic hardship and major wars: the Revolution, The Civil War, WWII, etc. they are responsible for hardships and significant upheaval.
For everything there is a season.
As far as I can tell, most major figures in government in the 1960s and early 1970s was born before that "Silent Generation." I'd include John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Barry Goldwater, Hubert Humphrey, Eugene McCarthy, Nelson Rockefeller, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and every U.S. Supreme Court justice of note (Earl Warren, Felix Frankfurter, Harry Blackmun, William Brennan, and William "Zero" Douglas) among them.
The first House Speaker from the "Silent Generation" was Jim Wright of Texas, and he didn't assume that role until 1987.
Among U.S. Senators, we didn't see anyone from that generation in majority leadership roles until we had dingbats like George Mitchell and Trent Lott in the late 1980s and the 1990s.