I’m 63 and I consider myself to be pretty darn Conservative.
However, I have real sympathy for young people. For one thing, the annoying young people that we like to complain about, were simply raised badly by the generation ahead of them.
The social media which has rotted their brains was sold to them, and invented by, the generation or two ahead of them.
And most of all — inflation has been creeping steadily up since at least 1913; but wages have been stagnant for over 40 years. Young people simply cannot buy the things we bought. We sacrificed, sure. But they would need to sacrifice a lot more. When you were 20 years old, did the government have a $33T debt? Did it pay $1T every year just for interest?
These young people are walking into a world that really sucks. And their parents (mostly) did a poor job of preparing them for it.
I’m glad I’m old. I got lucky.
I think this next generation, the ones who are now 10-13 years old about to enter High School, will be the generation that brings the pendulum back in the other direction, and will reject all the craziness.
That sympathy goes out the window when they continue to vote for Democrats.
I will posit that a lot of the problems that these kids have were brought about by the likes of Democrats and RINOs that have been making the rules for us peasants to follow. How the hell do we have $33T debt with $1T in interest? There are a lot of idiots/ numbskulls/ (can’t say here what I really call them) that are in the hallowed halls of Congress, and have been for far too long, that have been making those debts our problem, and generations after us, their problem.
These kids love social media though, instead of abhorring it, and it will be the downfall of all of us.