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But this is your personal experience. There are a shit ton of boomers that are amazing and give their kids hand ups. It's the system that is broken. Weren't the proud boys mostly millennials? They were probably living off their parents. Gen Xers are never really shit on anymore because there isn't enough of them to give an opinion. I can say though, there are a fucking ton of shitty gen xers too.
It's a class war that built this system, not a generational war.
Sure the system is broken and my experience is anecdotal.
There’s a generational war if you want to call it that. Birthdates fell below replacement rates starting over the last 60 years in European countries. At the same time life expectancy increased significantly. In European countries with state run health care and pensions this has a huge impact.
So now you have lots of boomers that retired early, own real estate, receive government retirement benefits, company or government pension, healthcare, etc.
At the same time there are a big number of immigrants, who cost the state more than they contribute. On top of that the quality of infrastructure and state services keeps decreasing.
Gen X and Millenials are the workforce, who are forced to pay for all of that. Stagnant wages, high taxes, worse government services, worse healthcare, etc. All of it was caused by boomers, their life choices, and political votes.
Boomers still occupy the most powerful positions in the state, other institutions, NGOs, corporations, political parties, etc. Gen X only starts getting there.
The whole demographic crisis was known for decades. However retirees are the biggest voting block. In the end we have an alliance between retirees, capital, welfare recipients, and the state against the productive working population.
The success of the populist right is directly caused by the decades of failures by institutions run by boomers and the policies they have voted for.
Class war accelerated the generational war.