Letter to the editor: Protesters like overgrown children

After watching young people marching in protests, destroying and looting property, toppling statues and blocking traffic, it makes me wonder if these are the children of “helicopter” parents. Maybe they never got to fight their battles during their growing years and now they react like this as adults, thinking they have power, when in actuality they are unruly overgrown children. They never learned to respect others’ property.

I watched some on TV, jubilant and jumping up and down with glee after toppling a statue. I wonder if their parents saw them. Unfortunately, we have a generation of those children.

Perhaps it has been hard for them to find a job, so they have accepted the job offered as a protester. Truthfully, I never thought that protesters were paid until one of my grandsons, anxious for a job after graduating from college, applied for an environmental job that turned out to be one of marching in a protest. Although he was anxious for a job, he declined the position. His better sense prevailed.

It is too bad that these unruly overgrown children did not make that choice. Lives, businesses and history would have been spared the violence we have been seeing in our beloved country.

Dorothea Cremonese

Hempfield