We've had at least two generations of parents whose overall effect was to establish and build an enormous feeding trough on the one hand, and to launch out into other lands striking beehives and snake pits with fancy sticks on the other. It's time to grow up, as you say, and knock it off.
What does that have to do with Ron Paul going on the propaganda arms of mass-murdering totalitarian regimes and giving them aid and comfort?
Not a damn thing.