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We were focused on something that can be measured to some degree, generations as they hit the voting age.

When it comes to which generations passed laws and brought down institutions it becomes greatly mixed and arguable, people are shocked to learn what a wrecking crew to America the 50-60-70-and 80-year-old leaders were in the courts and universities, congress and military, government and corporations during the 60s and 70s and going back every decade forever, like the 1840/50s immigration, there are eternal arguments trying to pin all that stuff down.

Look at this and look at new voting charts.
In 1968 the Democrats got 47%, in 1972 46%, 1976 51%, 1980 44%,1984 40%, 1988 47%, and then in 1992 it all went to heck.

There is a big difference between then and now. The Vietnam War became very unpopular in the late 60s, with many young people not wanting to be used as fodder in what many correctly saw as a for profit war that our government had no intention of winning. Many in the older generation wanted to win the war. LBJ knew how unpopular he had become as a result of escalating the war, and chose not to run in 1968 for that reason.

Back to the present, the young generation was literally betrayed by previous generations. They were told to get college degrees in technical skills, then had to settle for part time jobs saying "Fries with that?" because the tech jobs had been outsourced or filled with H1Bs.

We can agree on your point about the 50-60-70-and 80-year-old leaders screwing up things. It was they who gave China MFN in the late 90s and made it permanent in the early 2000s. Clinton, Gore and Biden signed off on these deals, but they had a lot of help from Bush, Newt, and the GOP.

The American people at that time had a choice, between companies who tried to stick with American labor and those who outsourced, and they voted with their wallets.

Now the American workers who were paying into our infrastructure and military have been replaced with Chinese workers who are paying into their infrastructure and military. Meanwhile, we had to raise the debt ceiling just to pay the interest on all of the debt we accumulated.

I'm aware of the self righteous kids who got their degrees in "homosexuality in homo sapiens studies", but many did what they should have done. They got training in tech jobs only to watch as those jobs were shipped out of the country.

Our kids can't even pay back their own debt, never mind the national debt. Is it any wonder they're so angry and have lost faith in the American dream?