What shocked me most this week was the fact that everybody was shocked. So many observers were truly astonished that the kids of Parkland Florida were intelligent articulate human beings. There is nothing new about this. Our teenagers have not suddenly become geniuses. They have always been clever, thoughtful, interesting individuals. Old people just suddenly started listening to them. Maybe for the first time since the Vietnam War. We as a society have spent so much time degrading and demeaning our young people that we actually forgot that they have brains and know how to use them.
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