There is nothing really shocking about these figures. The baby boomers/older generations tend to be more conservative, and frankly that is a demographic that is loosing ground to the younger, more liberal demographic. In fact this trend caused many people to think that they would never see a Republican President again in their lifetime (you know some of those people eh rightwinger).
The long term trend in this country is towards liberalism/socialism. Those trends are the underlying cause of national debt, and will ultimately cause the events which bring about the fall of this country, whenever that occurs.
An underlying debt of a trillion and half dollar tax cut going to the wealthy, while wages remain stagnant is how you accumulate a national debt.
Now come on! Entitlement spending, which primarily began under FDR (phony conservative Republicans have had their hand in entitlement spending too) is the ever growing expense that will never allow for zero national debt.
Entitlement spending, if you've taken the time to educate yourself about, generally pays for itself. Obviously you have not done that.
Do you really know what an entitlement actually is? It is nothing more than people putting money somewhere "we" earned, so we can get it back later. If we did it in a bank, it would be no different. It is not an expense when it is your money to start with.