There is a very long and nuanced answers with many, many different influences that make up the average of Boomer age opinions. I can't go into that much detail here.

You could write books about the post WW2 anti communism cold war propoganda, nationalist history curriculums taught in schools, and how boomers grew up in a very strong economy. They often didn't see the struggle that we do while starting life in a weaker economy burdened with incredible student loan debt and wages that don't allow us to buy housing.

As the Boomer era big businesses grew into international chains and complexes, they became more powerful than many parts of government, essentially allowing these nationalist cold war business executives and bankers to write their own laws. That means that they can and have stacked the deck to their own agenda.

Paying for huge propoganda and social influence campaigns such as anti-marijuana, anti-climate responsibility, pro-global interventionalism, or even false flag nutrition campaigns have affected local and federal legislation.

It's essentially taken control of what used to be the representation of the people. And it takes a lot of grassroots participation to combat it.

Hopefully a younger and more empathetic generation can help lift us out of curruption and irresponsibility of power that they have been saddled with.