Commentary There is something to be said for listening to members of older generations, no matter how much millennials and Generation Z may like to dismiss anyone over the age of 45 with the tired insult, “Okay, boomer.” The thing about baby boomers and Generation X, who somehow get lumped in together as “old people,” is that they remember things the two younger generations currently screeching about equality and safe spaces have only—maybe—read about in history class. Even then, what appears in their history books is likely to be skewed, as history is written by the winners and the political left won the war on influencing education before the political center and many on the right ever realized there was a battle going on. That’s why it would behoove millennials and zoomers to ask the old people about things like the collapse of the Soviet Union or the fall of …