The WORST Generation

Sometimes when our children emulate their parents it can be a beautiful tribute to the older generation. And sometimes it is neither beautiful nor flattering either to a generation or a country.

The generation being emulated in the streets of St. Paul Minnesota this week was not the generation that worked and served during the Vietnam War. They were –and are—The Unsung Generation, the heroes who did the work, fought the battles and were spat upon and called names by expensively educated leftist vagabonds.

And it was not the generation that grew up in the Depression fought in the Second World War, and who came home to raise the standard of living in the United States to the highest of any nation in history –while at the same time feeding our former enemies, rebuilding Europe and protecting them from Soviet invasion. That was, undeniably, the Greatest Generation.

No, the generation being emulated by the hoards of vile-mouthed, masked vagabonds in St. Paul last week were imitating the generation that ridiculed the hard work and conformity of their parents, who mated with barnyard indiscrimination, who introduced drug abuse to our culture as something that celebrated freedom, and who, in the streets of our cities, did the work of our enemy in time of war. It was that most self-absorbed, self-righteous and deeply self-centered youth the country ever produced. They were, and are, The Worst Generation.

In Denver, they protesters nd Worst Generation types were pretty much under self-control for Obama and the Democrats. There was a kind of 1960’s retro festival vibe to the week as today’s “activists” hobnobbed with real-live unreconstructed Worst Generation types. They did not “Recreate ’68.”

In St. Paul, in the land of “Minnesota Nice,” the “protesters" and Worst Generation types were as obnoxious as they could be, calling police vile names, smashing store windows, overturning trash barrels, attacking and threatening delegates, starting fires, throwing glass bottles, puncturing tires, blocking traffic, and skirmishing with the police. Some Molotov cocktails were seized; conspirators planning to kidnap delegates were thwarted. The convention was protected and 818 protesters were arrested.

It was pretty weak tea compared with the Chicago Democratic Convention of 1968. Maybe today’s young hooligan simply does not have what it takes to live up to the standards of The Worst Generation…