Every Gen Xer I've ever met are the most apathetic people in the world. They do not give a single shit about what happens outside of their immediate vicinity, no matter what it is. The youngest ones are all middle aged now so they do the "when you get older you'll get more conservative" shtick to millennials and zoomers too.
My parents are Gen X and I can confirm they suck. My mom is literally a doctor and she was saying that we need to reopen schools, in the middle of the worst wave, because "kids don't die of Covid". She just doesn't want to be the only one going into work - not that she considers the janitors, post workers, office clerks etc as working