It's the weird generations, stupid!

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“Ditto the Stalag-Gulag Guantanamo that, by January 19, had ruined the Constitution, shredded the Bill of Rights, and forever tarnished our reputation. Yet, on the 20th, it was suddenly complex and problematic, and required a ‘task force’ to do a year-long inquiry into the bad and worse choices confronting us.

At some point in all this serial hysteria, we are beginning to see the problem is not in the stars of the economy or of the war, but in ourselves — a weird generation that, when it finally came of age, proved to be just about what we could expect of it from what we saw in its youth.”
 — Victor Davis Hanson

I saw the hippies up-close and much too personal in their youth. I realized then they would ultimately be f*cked. What I didn't anticipate, although in retrospect it should have been obvious, was that they would embroil the entire country in their irresponsibility, because of the sheer magnitude of their boomer demographic.

What's even more depressing, however, is that their offspring are gearing up to outdo their lunatic parents.