“The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room."

-Socrates

Things change and different generations behave differently. Nevertheless, the parent complains about leadership behavior, not about children behavior.

I do, however, agree with the spirit of quote; it's just that it started to become really applicable a few generations ago (or, depending on how you think of it, such a mentality was always a major current of colonized America, but it really gained cultural ascendency in the 70s as we ran out of easy ways to extract wealth while plausibly "improving" things).

FWIW, that quote isn't from Socrates https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/01/misbehave/

This must be it.

Back in the 70s, Carter at least seemed to care about the American family’s wallet.

Now, America votes for a clown ex-president like Trump, thinking he’ll actually do something for them. Instead, he just surrounds himself with a bunch of other crooks.

And I highly doubt that Biden will do anything different to send America on a different trajectory.

Or maybe being cynical and disaffected is just a part of being young? Seems pretty common!

It's not just the young that are cynical anymore, though.