WTF is wrong with our young people??

[RealityChik]

65. Is this an "OK BOOMER" scenario?

I am the parent of one GenXer and one Millennial. Thinking back to the 1980s and 1990s, weren't we Boomers too wrapped up in being upwardly-mobile Yuppies to exert the activism of our younger years needed to descend on Congress to revive Civics and volunteerism in our children school curricula?

If our grown children are disengaged from civic engagement, have we no one to blame but ourselves? I became politically involved because my parents were. But I was somehow too naive to believe that my children would grow into activism as they matured just because I did at their age.

Heck, only a small percent of college-age kids today can name the three branches of our government. Even fewer can recall the dates of the US Civil War. Whose fault is that? In the long-term, OURS. We never taught them to remember how important that information is, and relevant it might become.

My activism lapsed during my child-rearing years. I was too busy running a business, engaging in my kids schoolwork and interests and nurturing their talents to see the error of that naïveté. And buying lots of STUFF. Luckily, and in spite of lapse, my kids eventually acquired civic intelligence as adults, but regretfully not the fire or participation of civic activism that I had hoped. Whose fault? Very much, mine.

Let's not point fingers and find others to blame for America's problems. In all honesty, America is getting exactly what it deserves. Don't like that? Only "We the People" can change that. Only by owning some of the blame, getting active and most of all, not losing hope can we save ourselves and our nation.