I've reached the age where I should be grumbling about how the younger generation will be the ruin of the country.

As a libertarian conservative, I should especially be succumbing to the sentiment, given the growing preference among young Americans for socialism over capitalism.

That I'm not is partially, and perhaps mostly, attributable to finding considerable truth in an adage of H.L. Mencken's: "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."