They are slowly starting to learn that their government took out a high interest credit card in their name and ran up 32 trillion in debt.
Good luck paying even the monthly interest on that kids. I would say learn to code but AI will do those jobs.
Yes.
And I think it is smart for Conservatives to be sympathetic and to establish that our political philosophy would not have created a $32T debt. That we believe in personal freedom. That we support real opportunity. That we want America First and that Americans should be successful. If we have an open heart to young people, and show that the World of Progressives is a bad world -- and that it is not our world -- then the coming generation may be converted to our view of the world.
But if we are cold-hearted, and if we sneer at the snowflakes that we raised, and just say "Too bad for you!" And if we regale them with stories about how hard our life was 40 years ago, when kids played outside, there was no social media, little government surveillance, much smaller government debt, and vast technical regions of untapped economic growth -- if we tell them these tales and claim that we "suffered" in those days and now it's just their turn to suffer ... well, those young people will not like us very much, and they will hunger for a true communist society where the current trends continue and they can hope that Uncle Joe and his successors will just take care of them.
I'd rather be sympathetic and convert them, and I would rather avoid a scornful and dismissive attitude, making too little of their current struggles.