Millennials must respond to the heavy hand of the baby boomers.
We are seeing in the exploitation of the coronavirus by authoritarians in Asia, Europe and South America not only similar profiles of nationalistic rhetoric and isolationist tendencies, but also something much more nefarious. Each of these individuals—such as Russia's Vladimir Putin, China's Xi Jingping, Hungary's Viktor Orban and Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro, among others—have something in common that transcends their words and actions.
Here's my case: Baby boomers, who came of age amid strife, tend to look at the geopolitical landscape in black and white. There are, in their view, only winners and losers. On the other hand, Millennials and our chronologically adjacent brethren, Generation X, were taught to speak truth to power, embrace individual thought and to look at the world as a win-win proposition. We want a world in which everyone can flourish and everyone can thrive.
It's these opposing generational perspectives, as well as the fact that boomers continue to represent the largest global voting bloc, that are fueling the rise of authoritarian rule across the globe and giving life to not only the weakening of democracies and democratic norms, but the generational warfare inherent within.
In Russia, for example, the 67-year-old mastermind of disinformation, Putin, is orchestrating a social media campaign in at least five languages targeting European and American audiences in a coordinated effort that dates back to the virus' beginnings in late January. The goal, , is to"sow discord and undermine U.S. institutions and alliances from within, including through covert and coercive malign influence campaigns." With November right around the corner, the timing could not be better.
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