“I’m not wondering what our children, teens, and young adults are thinking — because I can talk to them, and I can tell you.

We’ve set them THE most bizarre example of headless sociopolitical impotence in modern history, and they are confused, angry, curious… and hopeless about it.

They constantly overhear the conversations that indicate our nation has been taken and is being held hostage by a megalomaniacal idiot with delusions of intelligence. They have heard their parents (and grandparents) saying things that make no sense whatsoever, and arguing about why it is that ‘no one is doing anything about it’.

Because, obviously, either their parents are totally fucking helpless, or have no idea what to do, or both… or both and more…

So we’re teaching them that, while one president was removed for, apparently, having lied about having received oral sex, another president won’t be removed for lying his head off about things that get huge numbers of people killed, while making other people staggeringly rich.

Also, it’s apparent to them that our entire adult population is both willing to be held hostage by a raging idiot, and confused about why ‘someone else’ doesn’t do something to stop him.

Our young people are getting an example that’s at least as inexplicable as what happened in Germany circa 1940, except that it’s not 1940, and this isn’t depression-era Germany. It’s 2020, and this used to be the United States.

Now, apparently, it’s a dystopian science-fiction novel in which an actually manageable situation has turned into a seething hydra of deadly cartoons that grows new heads daily.

And the adults all around them are too busy arguing, panicking, baking, and posting nonsense on social media to have any effect on the situation.

What’s the fucking take-away here?”

— infraheard