# The Greatest Generation Today?  (Have We Gone Soft?)

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 19, 2019, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-generation-today-have-we-gone-soft/842003 "2019-10-19T17:07:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-generation-today-have-we-gone-soft/842003/22 "2019-10-21T03:44:09Z")

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> [@Wesley\_Clark](#):
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> The four generation cycle implies that the millennial are the next greatest generation.
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> I think millennial would welcome taxes and self sacrifice to deal with serious issues like plutocracy, climate change, resource depletion, lack of universal health care or affordable college, overpriced housing, etc.
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> But millennial won’t be dominant in politics until the 2040s or so.

I’m a millennial and I wouldn’t welcome taxes, especially not to fight the things you listed, but if there were a real existential threat, something like another Nazi war machine gobbling up European countries every couple of weeks, and a Pearl Harbor, or another 9/11, or some nuking of American cities, I’d be on-board with serious sacrificing to kick the shit out of the responsible party.

Hell, I’d buy war bonds tomorrow if it meant we starting killing the IRGC.

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