As a boomer myself, it would be interesting to look at the quality of political leadership provided by the boomer generation, not just the fact that they are in charge.

For instance boomers often complain about the political immaturity of the millennials, due to the fact that they are young (’twas ever thus) but on the other hand how many boomers are actually contributing their experience toward the formulation of a Green New Deal or the revitalisation of a broad-church progressive politics?

I think that there is a lot of truth to the argument that a lot of boomers became detached from serious politics in the hippie era or thereabouts, adopting a position of rather shallow libertarianism and vague antipathy to the industrial society built by the Depression-and-WWII generation, and never actually grew up subsequently.

And so, ‘if it feels good do it’ and the ideal of fleeing the city for the country like in all those hippie songs morphed into neoliberalism, with some vague disquiet that not all was well with the new order but no real critical insights into the growing dominance of the FIRE sector etc, etc because you had to be a bit of a policy wonk or Old Leftie (a term of contempt to the hippies) to understand all that.

This is also linked to the decline of mass political party participation, in which in the past there would be a lot of older people with serious political experience and practical ideas and a sort of transmission belt to younger generations.

But all this is broken and the millennials are on their own save ironically for people like Old Leftie Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren, who are in fact not boomers but of the pre-boomer generation who grew to maturity in the time of JFK, the last one for which politics was “serious.” It’s a good thing that people like that aren’t quite in the retirement home yet, or the millennials really would be leaderless.

Anyway that’s my two cents’ worth.