Instead of hoping that the newest generation will fix our problems, let's us baby boomers do it like we did before.
I was talking with a boomer friend about Jefferey Sachs' book The Price of Civilization: Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity and how Sachs has it right about the state of politics. His solutions are similar to what he would tell the government of a small country that could take the necessary steps because the government had the necessary authority and respect of the people. But his solutions for the US face the ugly barrier of our messed up politics, in which the government (as he says) is controlled by the 1%, and there is no longer a common consensus as to the importance of government to regulate the free market and do the things the free market cannot (e.g., freeways, pollution control).
So my friend says "The new generation - they might fix it."
I say "Whatever happened to the baby boom generation, and how we were going to fix the system?"
What if, just what if, all the 60's protesters dug out their tie-dyed shirts and bell-bottoms, and hit the streets again to protest "the man"? But "the man" this time is the oligarchy, the corporations, the 1%, and the conservative-biased news media.
What if?