I adore my newly voting teen kids

[Sheepshank]

but I am ever so glad they are not the ones making the decision to direct the nation.

Experience sometimes...almost always (except in Bernie's case of course), changes minds, and focus, and knowledge, and priorities, and negotiation abilities, and willingness to see beyond personal desires.

[Bluenorthwest]

1. Older voters were and remain far more opposed to LGBT equality than younger voters.

Experience has the potential to create wisdom but only if effort is made in that direction. Experience is something everyone gets in life, wisdom is something few gain. Thus experience alone does not cause wisdom.

[Sheepshank]

2. I have become more liberal over the years

and much more inclusive.

I suspect that many more older persons today, are more tolerant now than 40-50 years ago.

[Bluenorthwest]

4. That's what you self report. It has no bearing on the facts that I stated. The younger voters

are the reason we got equal rights. This is from 2014:
"Among the most dramatic divisions in opinion on the issue are between age groups. As has been the case in the past, support for marriage equality is higher among younger Americans; the older an American is, the less likely he or she is to support marriage for same-sex couples. Currently, adults between the ages of 18 and 29 are nearly twice as likely to support marriage equality as adults aged of 65 and older."
http://www.gallup.com/poll/169640/sex-marriage-support-reaches-new-high.aspx

So the 'experience' you tout was half as likely to support equality than the younger voters you disparage.

You have no support for you assertions but of course you make them anyway.

[Exilednight]

7. Statistics say otherwise. boomers tend to be a lot less tolerant than Xers, and

Millennials tend to be more tolerant than Xers

[JonLeibowitz]

3. I love my grandparents and all family above 50. I'd prefer that those under the age of 50 would

be successful in setting the direction for the future of the country. After all, we have to live with it longer.

[YouDig]

5. There is valuable insight from all age groups, I think.

Youth brings passion, enthusiasm, but sometimes naivete. Age brings wisdom, knowledge, but sometimes cynicism and resistance to change.

[Arazi]

6. Nice slam on Bernie

Climate change is the most important issue right now and frankly I'll take their urgency @ this over the "experience" of the elder generations who've catastrophically fucked the planet.

[ffr]

8. K&R Get them excited about Civics early on

[surrealAmerican]

9. What a sad thing to admit.

This leaves basically two possibilities:

1. Your newly voting offspring are not actually competent, in which case their educations and parents have failed them. There is, however, no reason to suspect this incompetence is shared by the rest of their generation.

or

2. Your newly voting offspring are more competent than you suspect, yet you have a mental image of them that won't let you see them as intelligent adults.

I suspect and hope it's the second one. They're adults now - you need to learn to trust them.