My children are Millennials and they are great young adults. None of them voted for Obama and none of them have any college debt. Two of them have graduated from college and are full time employed. One of them is still in college, in ROTC, and will become an officer in the military. So, there are plenty of good Millennials out there. It just depends on how they were raised. There were many loser Baby Boomers and Gen Xers too. Our country has a lot of problems, no doubt. Many elements of popular culture are toxic to good social order and the concept of liberty. This toxic culture does not make the job of being a parent any easier. None-the-less, parent still have a job to do and many aren’t doing it. If there is any deficiency in this generation, then the fault resides with the parents who failed to do their jobs. Much of this failure can blamed on divorce and the plain selfishness of people who produce a child and then don’t stay together to raise that child. Sure, we can blame government, the terrible public schools, Hollywood, or just the general decay of a declining, decadent society, but in the end, the parents will make the difference.
“If there is any deficiency in this generation, then the fault resides with the parents who failed to do their jobs. Much of this failure can blamed on divorce and the plain selfishness of people who produce a child and then don’t stay together to raise that child.”
This generation (for a variety of reasons) isn’t breeding; that is having demographic consequences visible everywhere. When a recent study proclaimed that “conservative” areas had higher rates of divorce, it conveniently omitted the fact that marriage itself is practically dead in “liberal” areas - divorce will be wiped out by the absence of marriage to start with...