A new book by Leonard Steinhorn argues that the baby boomers are the true "Greatest Generation." Please. What haven't these people screwed up?

As for the boomers' accomplishments, Steinhorn exaggerates them, and downplays or ignores developments that present them in a less flattering light. As noted above, the generally conservative trend of American politics over the past 28 years is a serious problem for his thesis. If boomers are so liberal, why did they, in combination with their elders, elect Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan and the two Bushes? Steinhorn argues that deep cultural shifts and politics don't necessarily track, and that most Americans don't pay that much attention to politics. But the fact that they don't itself raises serious questions about how much boomers actually care about their supposedly hard-won ideals, and whether they are willing to sacrifice anything to realize them.

Everybody knows that Generation X (though horribly named) is objectively the greatest of all generations, and specifically the high school class graduating in 1998. Every group of graduates since then has been an abject and disheartening disappointment.

UPDATE: Wikipedia informs me that I may in fact have been promoted to the vanguard of the even-worse-named Generation Y. But it isn't entirely sure.