Introducing the Libertarian Democrat. Are You One?

[MADem]

25. I agree with the "I got mine" sense of things. I've seen that a lot.

The attitude goes along with the "I had it rough and it made me a BETTER person (yeah, right)" vibe. It pairs nicely with "Well, then YOU have to suffer, TOO!!!!!"

You see this a lot in the military, as well, amongst the old salts, who back in the day, were 'young salts,' hearing the same bullshit from the ancient mariners who were the old salts way back when!

"Oh, these young kids have it SO EASY!!!!" I don't know if they have it "easy," it's more like they have it "different." Their paths are smoothed, physically, but their world is more complex in other ways.

Hell, I think if I'd had to deal with the "helicopter parents" of today when I was a kid, I would have gone nuts. I was raised in the free range style, and not in America for much of my life either. I couldn't imagine being caged like the children of today--no wonder they grow up to be selfish and self-absorbed...their parents, with their excessive over-protectiveness, rather imbue that in them, poor things.