Their parents won the Second World War.
They...
1. All but destroyed the family unit after wasting their youth in a counter culture movement that fueled massive divorce rates, childhood mental illness and unstable family units; which now, has resulted in neutered masculinity and replacing essential male role models in society with hormone blockers for teenagers.
2. Traded our middle class and manufacturing base for cheap shit, disability and welfare checks embracing globalism, while China and organized crime cheered over how much easier it would be to flood the country with drugs, and trash products... then voted for politicians bankrolled by pill pushers who manufactured mother's little helpers for entire regions of the country hallowed out by these policies.
Who needs the integrity of work when you have Oxy, am I right?
... All of which requires a slave class in third world and emerging countries working for a bowl of rice until they jump off the roof of the Apple building... so they can have an affordable iPhone.
4. Were duped by every myth of empire ever told by a ruling class to a citizenry population to get them to support illegal wars that squandered national wealth, killed innocent civilians abroad and sent their own children to war they had no way to care for at home.
5. Ran up a national debt larger than all other generations combined, but care only about the solvency of the government and Social Security until their own deaths. Once they depart from the Earth, they couldn't give two shits what happens to those they've left behind.
6. Supported politicians on both sides because they promised them homes they could not afford, collapsed the economy and destroyed the American Dream for a generation.
7. And they still consume all the same sources of information they did which led to these follies, and act as if they're the credible and intelligent ones.
Sure, Republicans could try to win them over OR they could motivate the younger generation who are the victims of these actions, plus whatever else I omitted out of exhaustion, instead.