Must be real easy to forget that every generation has problems.
Our predecessors have squared against proxy wars, nuclear annihilation, world wars, industrial upheaval, civil war, new frontiers, and revolutions; and you can only blame them for you having to deal with a less than perfect economy.
I'm not trying to say our problems don't exist, I'm just trying to say that our parents and grandparents might have been a bit too busy fighting to secure our future than making sure it's perfect.
I think you're making a generalization. Some of our grandparents might have fought in wars, but not any of mine, and not most of the grandparents of the people I know. I don't think there is something inherently wrong about looking back and admit that we've mistakes. It's true that people born to the millenial generation have to had to fight in any conflicts, but I'd say that's more due to the current political landscape if anything else, that we have helped to shape. Would it have been better if there had been a draft for the Afganistan war, for example?
It's pretty easy to convince the younger generation to have them think they should be in charge. However, they are not entering "their world". They are entering a world that the previous generation has compromised with time and time again. Once you actually put them in charge, they'll start to see it's not as simple as it was from the backseat.
Am I the only one bothered that this isnt an actual exchange in the show. Both of those pictures are from completely different scenes and (I don't think) that the second quote is even in the show at all.
Our predecessors have squared against proxy wars, nuclear annihilation, world wars, industrial upheaval, civil war, new frontiers, and revolutions; and you can only blame them for you having to deal with a less than perfect economy.
That was an abridged list of what was endured by only a handful of generations.
Most of us millennials have it easier.
Much easier.