Boomers have always been desperately insisting that young people are lazy and apolitical, until something scary happens, like the WTO protests or Occupy or BLM, then we're easily led pawns and too violent
It's really telling what Boomers glamorize as part of their 60s golden age of young people caring about politics. It's all about peace and love and the Beatles and fun drugs, with the civil rights protests just a side story