Thank you so much! I know I've said elsewhere that I'm always impressed by your thoughtful comments on this comm, so your agreement means a lot to me!

And, I mean, there was at least one whole children's book that I saw a while back that was devoted to helping parents explain to their children how the behavior of the last occupant of the Oval Office is not something to emulate, and in some ways, it's gotta be harder for teenagers, not least because of all the fairly young-for-their-jobs people who were getting snapped up left and right (or perhaps alt-right and wrong) for positions in the previous administration. So there are these examples of people close to your own age for whom being a provocative and offensive troll is a good career move, and not just in comedy, but in government and politics. It's like all those AAM letters about parents' (and career counselors') out of touch career advice, but with the twist that even though those behaviors have obviously advanced some people's careers (At least temporarily and please God will some of these folks be forever banished from the public sphere), that doesn't mean that they were actually good at their jobs, and frequently neither were nor wanted to be.

And, it's like, I just want to play "Children Will Listen" from Into the Woods on repeat, here.