Or look up Charles XII of Sweden. Inherited at 15 and was promptly invaded by all of his neighbors, who thought they could partition the punk kid’s territories.
He proceeded to whip Denmark/Norway and Poland/Lithuania. Then launched the first great European invasion of Russia, which worked out about as well as the later ones.
It spins my head that we joke about libs that think anything that happened yesterday doesn’t matter when they want to go 190 today. And yet many oun our side of the fence do the same thing on the issue of age and when a kid is really not a kid anymore.
In the 1900s as we moved west and disease, indian raids and lack of doctors created a lot of single parents and orphaned settlers, ‘kids’ were doing the work of men and women far younger than 18-21. They had kids of their own, built farms and created a country from nothing.
Alexander and Lafyette were some of history’s greatest military minds before 19-21 and conquered, built nations.
And today, Johnny and Joanie can’t go on a sleepover without a GPS and a smartphone if at all.
It’s not that ‘times’ have changed, it’s that ‘parents’ have changed and pussified their bubblewrapped kids. Even today, the average farmboy/girl has more maturity than the average college senior in the city.
And we wonder what happened to America? Here’s one place to start placing blame.