Yarr. Thank ye, lass. Oh, and lest anybody think I’m just a young idealist, I would like to point out that the one and only reason that I intend to own a lawn in my life is just so that I can yell at kids to get off it.

I started saying “kids these days” when I was still in high school.

I suspect even more people have heard the term “uneducated idiots”, probably because there are so many more of them.

Let’s ignore the disregard for human life inherent in your statement “Life experience is far more valuable than someone who has a college degree.” (Did you NOT meant to say that life experience is more valuable than an actual person? I chose to get an education so that I would be less likely to make mistakes like that. Now maybe you understand why.)

So let’s get to your argument. You claim that “The people that have put this country in this mess all had college educations.” That’s nonsense. The people who have put this country in the mess it is are the people who VOTED for the current administration, and worse, the people who RE-ELECTED it.

I’ve noticed that the only people who makes claims about the vast superiority of either education or life experience are the ones who are missing one or the other.

As for your comment “Young people may think they are so much smarter than older Americans but what do they really know?” What a smug, self-satisfied and bigoted attitude. Not to mention just plain untrue. You were never young? You were born old and full of life experience? Balderdash. You WERE young once, and YOU thought you were so much smarter than older Americans. (And, I suspect, you were so sure of how smart you were that you didn’t even need to get an education and learn how to use commas or capitals, so you might want to stop before casting that first stone next time.) As for what they know? They KNOW that THEY didn’t cause this mess. They know that nearly every every executive decision of the last 8 years has ranged from “miserably bad” to “nearly catastrophic… on a global scale”. They know that you and people like you are out there, dismissing and discounting them and that if they don’t try to make changes to make THEIR world better, they can rely on you to keep trying to make it worse.

Living a long time doesn’t impart wisdom, it merely makes you long-lived. Knowledge doesn’t impart wisdom, it just makes more educated. Both can be very good things, but it is learning, *truly* learning, that imparts wisdom.