“she characterized our grandparents as “The Greatest Generation” and this generation as “The Dumbest Generation”.”
Understand how much of our current dilemna can be laid at the feet of the self-anointed “Greatest Generation”; what do we have today that has not been handed down by them?
I disagree with your inference that our problems today originated with that generation. In my opinion, it is the prior generation to theirs that laid the foundations of much that is wrong, the generation of the first twenty to thirty years of the 20th century.
And it isn’t “self-anointed”, I find that characterization offensive. You do know that Tom Brokaw (who is NOT of that generation) coined the phrase “The Greatest Generation”, right?
The most damaging things we have were handed down to them, in my opinion, and can be encompassed by one word:Liberalism.
By the way, I didn’t mean that I found your characterization of their generation “offensive”...what I meant to say was that it would be offensive to them.
Many of that generation (in particular the military men) would be offended by the charge of self-aggrandizement...I have found it true that a good deal of them didn’t want to even bring attention to their role in the shaping of this country due to their wartime experiences.
I wasn’t offended by it, I simply thought it was inaccurate, I don’t think many of them look at themselves that way.
The “greatest” generation had no clue how to raise kids.