[formerly_proven]

(Near-)retirees are typically the largest voting bloc and usually the only one experiencing any growth in most of the West. It is unsurprising that they get to set policies that solely benefit them at the expense of everyone else, including those that are yet to be born and those who will never be born because of those policies. And why would they care about the future? Retirees, by revealed preference, don't, and why would they? It's not their future they're destroying. Indeed, they're making quite a nice (short) future for themselves by bleeding societies dry.

[rightbyte]

My experience joining a political party as 3X yo is that the (near)retirees are eager to throw mandates at you because you are young.

The early 20s and 5X+ are the ones that have more time for politics. I would not read some inter-generational class warfare into that.

I wouldn't broadly blame generations for things. It is like that silly Karen meme service workers have. We are part of the problem too.