This is like black guys getting mad about having crime stats pointed out. Just because they were statistically useless cucks on average doesn't mean I'm calling you a useless cuck if you are gen X. There's plenty of decent gen X guys, they just have to pass inspection before I risk giving them credit.

As for what they should have done. Not rolled over at the first sign of resistance would have been a good start for most of them. Voting is barely even a fraction of your personal agency. Hell even strictly in the sense of winning elections you can influence other people's voting perspectives, not just spend 5 seconds every few years marking an X and throwing your hands up when you don't get what you want. Voting is downstream of culture, and culture is a free for all that most conservative inclined Gen-Xers ran away from screaming the first time someone got in their faces. Yeah you were outnumbered, but history isn't full of people just tallying up numbers and declaring winners. It's full of smaller forces deciding they had something still worth fighting for and winning anyway. Numbers count, but so does resolve. Like those kids specials that say you can't be brave if you aren't scared, you can't be pussies if you're not scared either. The left challenged genX cons to a scary culture war and most backed down like pussies until some even more outnumbered millennials and Gen Z kids took the vanguard instead.