I’m sure Millenials and Gen Z will have their own failings and shortcomings that will become obvious to future historians. No generation is perfect, and during happy times the flaws of the previous generation is exactly what the next generation aims to fix.

But I do believe that the Baby Boomers will go down as one of the least successful generations in modern American history. That would be survivable if their failings were purely personal, such as their poor test scores and their penchant for unprotected sex, but unfortunately their mendacity has spread into the public sector. The era of Boomer rule has been nothing but corruption and short term thinking, and they’ve left behind a country with crumbling bridges, overdrawn pension funds, two wars longer than Vietnam, an environment beginning to collapse, and trillions of dollars of student debt because they defunded the education system once they’d left. And to think they have the temerity to lecture Millenials about fiscal responsibility!