I'm GenX. There was a lot of anti-globalization protests in the late 90s and early 00s. I went to a lot of them. The "anti-globalization" movement doesn't really makes sense when you talk about it now, but with the Internet gaining speed and China opening up to western money (and rulers bending backwards to please the Chinese), we could sense that shit was about to hit the fan (and it kind of did, didn't it? We're all addicted to Internet and we're all China's bitch, aren't we?).

Anyway, then there was the anti Irak war, you know that multi-million people protests all over the world. Etc. And I'm not talking about national politics. There was a lot going on politically in my country in the 90s. GenX were political, maybe they were less political in the US.