Wanting your kids to “go through what you did,” ignoring for now the obvious degradation of the country, is a peasant’s mindset. That is not how you elevate your family or establish a legacy (even a modest one). Boomers are crabs in the pot that got a nice warm soak their whole lives, and now that the water is getting too hot to handle they’re grabbing their kids who are trying to escape and pulling them back in.