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In reply to the discussion: WTF is wrong with our young people?? [View all]NNadir
(37,664 posts)...and facing unbelievable horrors because of what we, the baby boomers, did to them.
They are entering a world with a destroyed environment, depletion of all major resources, threats to their food supply, a rise in fascism, a world we, the baby boomers, allowed to happen when we were in power.
We protested as long as our asses were on the line, but as soon as the draft ended we became self absorbed consumers.
These kids are laboring under mounds of debt, working hard, and facing mindless criticism from people with their heads up their asses.
Trump is a baby boomer, in many ways the avatar of our generation, a fat ass pig who cares only for himself and nothing for the future.
Let me tell you something. "These kids today" have it in them to be a "greatest" generation, because they must be a greatest generation if they are to survive. Great generations rise against great challenges.
The will not be a generation with a slogan like "sex, drugs and rock and roll." They give a shit, but not in pointless public displays of ersatz holiness and ersatz senses of superiority.