[Awgie]

"Then "Dad" comes along and says, "Get a job, move out of my house, get a haircut, be responsible, get married, raise a family...."

Your analogy is right on. That is exactly who we are dealing with. Rebellious punks that don't want to be reminded that the garbage occasionally taken out.

It would be funny except the world is dangerous. We can loose everything in the glow of strategically placed nuclear weapons. We don't need our homegrown leftest punks stealing the car when we grownups need to get to work.

[oblomov]

They are unable to even conceive that they are the problem, that society will work around them and eventually forget about them, or regard them as a pestilence of the past... Kipling's allegorical tale