LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Kids! You can talk and talk till your face is blue! Kids! But they still just do what they want to do! Why can’t they be like we were, Perfect in every way? What’s the matter with kids today?
“Kids” from the 1960 Broadway musical Bye Bye Birdie
Now by “kids,” I don’t mean very little kids... Every toddler has a firm understanding of property rights and private enterprise. Indeed, one of the first words spoken by toddlers is usually “Mine!” The kids I’m referring to are defined by demographical experts as “Millennials,” born between the early 1980s and the mid-1990s, and “Generation Z,” born between the late 1990s and the early 2010s. Or – to give a less academic description of this age cohort – “Everybody who doesn’t know how to drive a stick shift.”
Of course it’s a big fat over-generalization to say these kids don’t understand free markets... Some of the more open-eyed and entrepreneurial do. Just as some savvy youngsters can take Dad’s restored Corvette on a date and not come home needing a transmission rebuild and a clutch replacement. But what’s the use of a puny little over- generalization when it comes to writing an editorial? An opinion that can’t stand exaggeration can’t stand the smell test. Blowing truth out of proportion can be entertaining... Blowing falsehood out of proportion can be January 6, 2021.
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