Boomers.
The word stirs a whole spectrum of reactions—some playful, some furious. They’re a generation that has shaped public policy for longer than I’ve been alive, casting a shadow over nearly every major political decision in the West for decades.
They are the generation that has lazily watched while mass immigration fractured the West, while cost-of-living soared into the stratosphere, and while sexual degeneracy and loose morals undermined traditional values. Worst of all, perhaps, is their utter inability to emphasize with younger generations. In the boomer mind, every hardship faced by millennials or Gen Z is just a moral failing: laziness, entitlement, bad character. Nothing structural, nothing systemic—just kids these days.
And what makes it all so maddening is that boomers have no special claim to wisdom or success. Their “genius” amounts to having bought cheap real estate decades ago and then reliably voting for governments that inflated its value for everyone who came after. That’s it. And their investments have come on the backs of their children and grandchildren, a fact they stubbornly refuse to see.
If their economic arrogance wasn’t irritating enough, they have also become guardians of the political status quo.
In Canada, the old rule of politics has flipped. Historically, the young voted with their hearts and the old with their heads. But in the last election, it was boomers who handed the Trudeau-Carney Liberals another term—this despite an abysmal record which saw the cost of homes and the national debt double. They swallowed whole the narrative spun by mainstream media corporations, still imagining these outlets as unbiased arbiters rather than partisan machines. A last-minute flood of anti-Trump hysteria was all it took to swing their vote, and the “elbows-up” idiots flipped the Canadian election at the 11th hour.
This pattern isn’t new. Boomers reliably support the very political establishment that is grinding younger generations down. From mass immigration, refugee programs, foreign wars, and irresponsible spending: boomers want it all.
Why wouldn’t they? They are largely insulated from the consequences. They aren’t competing with international students for university spots or with DEI candidates for jobs. They aren’t bidding against wealthy foreign buyers for homes. They aren’t riding public transit beside unvetted refugees or living in low-income housing alongside illegal migrants.
Their daily lives remain sheltered from the frictions created by the policies they champion.
Boomers came up in a country that was overwhelmingly White, cohesive, and affordable. In many ways, the country still feels this way to them, so insulated are they from the nonsense they consistently support.
One might expect the elders of a civilization to lead—to safeguard the future, to offer guidance, to sacrifice comfort to pull the West back from the precipice it currently teeters upon. They are uniquely positioned to do so. They are still the largest voting block in the West, and they hold an outsized chunk of resources.
If the boomer class mobilized for serious reform —ending mass immigration, refugee programs, birth tourism and dual-citizenship—and joined the ranks of young men in the battle for the future of the West, how much easier the task would be.
I won’t hold my breath.