About the below, the worst part of this denial isn’t just the gaslighting of younger people it requires. Though that’s certainly bad enough. It’s the way people have to lie to themselves to keep the illusion going. Pretending nothing’s changed and that everything is just peachy means ignoring mountains of data, turning a blind eye to how insanely unaffordable everything’s gotten, and acting like rising inequality is just some kind of baseless complaint promulgated by the poors. At that point in your journey to become the Lex Luthor of your subdivision, you’re not just casually dismissing other people’s struggles, you’re nuking your own ability to see clearly or take any kind of responsibility for the mess we’re all in.

And that’s pretty freakin’ evil.