Boomer Hippies spent their youth drinking and getting high and having promiscuous sex and aborting their kids and protesting war. Then they grew up as adults and sent all the factory jobs overseas and loaded up $40 trillion in debt. Then they became grandparents and DEI racially discriminated against the younger versions of themselves for women and foreigners, while voting for endless overseas war they would've draft-dodged. Now they spend their retirement lecturing kids about hard work, sacrifice, and moral character.
They are soft, decadent flower children who see themselves as disciplined, grim, stoic, battle-hardened aristocratic patrician heroic statesmen. And they never grew up.
They are prodigal children who sold off the family farm inherited over 300 years and 12 generations. Then they relocated to a mansion and maxxed out the credit cards of their children and sold their children into debt slavery serfdom.
They deindustrialized the American military and turned the Army into a welfare jobs program for black lesbians, sold off the shipyards, and sent the semiconductor factories to Taiwan... a small vulnerable island off the coast of China. They set their children and grandchildren up to fight and die in WW3 with old, rusting ships and low stockpiles of missiles and ammunition.
At home, they imported Mexican drug cartel sicarios and MS-13 Satanic dismemembement to rape and murder their children and grandchildren, as long as the cartel sicarios were willing to mow their lawns as cheap foreign labor global arbitrage.
That's their legacy. And they're proud of it.