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This won’t happen until the boomers numbers are much smaller then the milliennials.

The boomers will be a unified block all voting for social security and health care for the elderly.

Everyone else will be split around various special interests.

So maybe in 20 years?

> Everyone else will be split around various special interests

I think you’re overestimating the probability of this factor. Twenty years isn’t a bad estimate, but I’d guess closer to 10.

I think you're underestimating the fact that the boomers will be a bunch of sick old people literally relying on millenials to take care of them in nursing homes.

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