>There are enough Baby Boomers to dominate politics The boomers don't dominate politics; money does. The 0.1% is trying to drive a wedge between young and old

>There are enough Baby Boomers to dominate politics The boomers don't dominate politics; money does. The 0.1% is trying to drive a wedge between young and old (largely successfully) by pushing this boomer/millennial bullshit (for one example of blatant astroturfing, google "the can kicks back"). They've been doing this to get complicity from the old to ramp up student debt, keep wages for the young down, etc. Equally, they've been doing this to get complicity from the young to privatize social security and slash medicare (thus far unsuccessful but boy have they been trying). The worst part is that it's an utterly shallow and obvious self serving strategy that's very clearly working (look at all the 'boomer hate' on HN. Getting people to hate on their grandmas is depressingly easy). The last thing the 0.1% want to see is young and old united against them.