[throw__away7391]

That's because the WWII generation who created these institutions and laid the groundwork for many of these change were still around for all that time. Around 2016 the last remaining members passed away. Now we have the boomers in charge and they are at long last able to enact all their fantasies without restraint in their final few years before they too pass.

[wwweston]

There’s probably something to theories of generational cycles. But the people in charge are put their by voting populations who aren’t all one demographic.

[jmull]

The "blame is on the boomers" idea is rather poorly supported by facts or even rational ideas.

[mothballed]

Having a democracy heavily weighted in voting numbers by people with the smallest timescale left (and no prospect of being drafted into the armed forces) to consider has consequences. This compounded by the fact younger voting block often unable to spend much time in voting related activities due to working 2,3 jobs to afford the housing that cost boomers 1/2 the price in real terms, either because housing was cheaper or it was legal to live in an urban ~hovel that would now be declared violating one of a million regulations that have since been enacted.