Since when did adults decide that the prattle of teenagers imparted some sort of wisdom? It doesn’t, of course, and mature adults realize this. However, some teenagers have caught the attention of progressives, and are now darlings of the left.

That’s asinine. Stop. Just stop.

For example, David Hogg, the nation’s Most Annoying Teenager, sees the shootings in El Paso and Dayton as target-rich environments for him to foment another shrill bout of screeching about the GOP and the NRA. So on Tuesday, he and his teenage minions from March for Our Lives will swarm in Louisville, KY. Their objective? To shame Sen. Mitch McConnell, whom Hogg says “has blood on his hands.”

Blood is on the hands of @senatemajldr. While he vacations during recess, people are dying. Join us in remembering those senselessly lost to gun violence, and demand McConnell bring life saving legislation to a vote. pic.twitter.com/PM9HWgMGA4 — David Hogg (@davidhogg111) August 5, 2019

And that’s not all. Another MFOL group plans to march outside NRA headquarters in Virginia.

Moreover, Hogg is out to influence Democrat presidential candidates as well. March for Our Lives and the anti-gun Giffords Group will hold a forum in October in Las Vegas in which they’ve invited the candidates to participate. Elizabeth Warren has already said she will attend:

I’ll be there. Grateful to be fighting alongside you to end this epidemic. https://t.co/aBmtJfCnuP — Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) August 5, 2019

So teenagers are now leading Democrat candidates by the nose. Who are the adults here?

Credit: March for Our Lives/Tracy Lee/flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.

But David Hogg and his March for Our Lives groupies aren’t the only insufferable teenagers trying to lecture adults. Greta Thunberg, a teen from Sweden who has become the darling of European environmentalists, will be coming to the Big Apple to lecture adults on the climate.

Here’s a brief history of Ms. Thunberg.

Greta Thunberg is a 16-year-old who has been diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome, which falls on the autism spectrum. She also has obsessive-compulsive disorder, and has also been affected by selective mutism. That is, until she discovered climate science.

She now controls her family’s diet, having turned them vegan, and becomes annoyed if her mother sneaks a cheese snack. What’s more, she forced her opera singer mother to give up her career since it involves plane travel.

But if you’re wondering how Greta plans to get to New York City without plane travel — and Santiago, Chile, too! — she has that all figured out.

Good news!

I’ll be joining the UN Climate Action Summit in New York, COP25 in Santiago and other events along the way.

I’ve been offered a ride on the 60ft racing boat Malizia II. We’ll be sailing across the Atlantic Ocean from the UK to NYC in mid August.#UniteBehindTheScience pic.twitter.com/9OH6mOEDce — Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) July 29, 2019

Must be her Scandinavian Viking DNA. Watch out for icebergs!

What sort of parents would allow such a trip for their 16-year-old daughter? Parents who’ve allowed her to become a tyrant in their home. As our Deanna, who has two sons on the autism spectrum, said about Greta Thunberg:

“She’s using her autism diagnosis to run roughshod over her parents. I do allow for the boys’ obsessions to be a part of our lives. But we would be so hosed if I let their obsessions control everything we did.”

And now Ms. Greta wants to run roughshod over America, too.

To give you a flavor of the smugness of Greta Thunberg, here’s a TED talk she gave in Stockholm in December:

She offers no solutions, just issues a screed blaming adults for All The Things, and then gets a standing ovation at the end of her lecture.

This is where progressivism has gone. They let teenagers tell them what to think and how to act, because feelings trump actual experience and knowledge in Woke World. Again I ask, Who are the adults?

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