we’re hardly alone. Sorry, but the post-WWII generation is fucking things up pretty much across the globe. Trump, Brexit, Orban, Wilders, Petry, Duterte, Putin, Le Pen, are all those pathetic, aging fossils who never got their WWIII to be the next “greatest generation.” Nationalism and populism are rampant everywhere, just witness Brazil electing Bolsonaro.
the world sucks because old people are the only reliable voting block, and old people suck. Old people convince themselves that they were absolute perfect angels when they were young, and that everything was perfect when they were young. so they will vote for any demagogue who agrees that everything was perfect back then and who promises to protect them from everything they’re scared of, including their own shadows.
we are the only species on the planet that expends a ton of effort keeping our aged population alive. and I wonder why.