I am of the older generation as well. I knew enough about debt at twenty, that when the country had a choice between Carter saying to put on a sweater, versus Reagan saying to put it on the credit card, that we would eventually end up somewhere approximately where we are at. That people can’t see Trump is a symptom and representative of the culture and that his greatest crime is to peel away some of the gauzy denial, I find somewhat disheartening. Though not entirely surprised.

Not that I give much credit to the younger generations to see much beyond that they are getting the short end of the stick. It takes time to really look under the surface.

I’m sure there are many of our cohort to have seen this happening, but then the corollary to those not knowing history being condemned to repeat it, is that those who do know history being condemned to watch it be repeated, because what drives the dynamic are not those who see both sides, but those who only see their side.

Here is my effort to step even further back and try to understand why it is going so wrong;

https://medium.com/predict/peeling-the-paradigm-1ceab7e774b0