Aaaand my response (at the risk of this being a bit like an echo chamber):

So, what's wrong with the "responsible young adults" of which you speak? Are they just too thick to understand that they have been disenfranchised by their status as renters?

No sir. The problem here is that they can't get $50k+ jobs to both pay off student loan debts (which are far higher than generations ahead of us have had to pay) and purchase a house, let alone start a family (which I'm not even considering reality at this point). It isn't feasible for us to go further into debt than any generation before us - frankly, the thought is pretty damn scary if you're already faced with massive debt from education that supposedly was to get you better-paying jobs. Most importantly, we learned from our parents; the 2008 housing crisis happened because borrowing money was too easy and many of the baby boomers wanted to live beyond their means. Two forclosures and three divorces later...many of them regret it.

No, there is no substantive difference. That's the repeated, tragic fallacy of every youth movement. The belief that somehow they are different, and that when they are in change things will be better, because their hearts aren't dead and their eyes are open to the Truth.

I'm not sure why Truth is Capitalized here, outside of some awry religious reference (and I hope that isn't true).

But new generations are better in many ways (not in all ways, and we can cherry pick examples to disprove this - but it's a general trend). Progress happens as a result of increased intelligence and awareness. We stand on the shoulders of giants, and build from that starting point. Throughout history, previous generations have gone thankless. This sucks. Personally, I am incredibly thankful of the hard work that was put into this country to make it a fair, safe, and free place to exist. Every day I show endless patience and respect to those in my building that don't understand computers and get mad at me because it's my damn fault the machine doesn't work as they intend it to.

I do everything I can to maintain the balance in society, but it's becoming increasingly obvious that the balance is actually eroding before my eyes due to selfishness on all fronts - the poor, the rich, and everyone in between.

In fact, progress is what all of these movements have in common. It's the constant that binds us all together and sure, it makes us "the same" in some ways, but this most recent problem is actually substantially different.

For the first time in history there are less of us than our parents. We have less voting pull, we have less economic power, by majority rule we will never see any form of change until the baby boomers mostly die off. We must do it with force, or do nothing. So far, we have chosen to do absolutely fucking nothing.

The establishment against which you rebel is the result of a youth rebellion against an establishment that was the result of a youth rebellion against an establishment that was the result of a youth rebellion against an establishment that was the result of a youth rebellion against an establishment....

Yep, except this rebellion has not yet started. It will, though, very soon. All of us "dumb young people" that are "the same as you were" are hyper-aware of the limits that the planet has imposed on us, and therefore, exponentially more liberal (to our great dissatisfaction, as we find ourselves in an increasingly capitalist neocon country). That means we care about shit that's more important than a Lexus, a 4BR Suburbia house, or, frankly, the whole fucking American Dream.

For many of us, it was always a dream.

We wait, and we ponder.