[dontbenebby]

>Parents might be old, but they're not dumb. People underestimate older people.

They aren't dumb, but many in that generation are willfully ignorant.

There was a great article in the NYT recently titled "Why high class people get away with incompetence":

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/20/science/social-class-conf...

If you've gone your entire life being able to bluster away criticism or force someone to do things for you ("delegate"), it can lead to a type of person who is not teachable, and when they inevitably suffer a breach will blame everyone but themselves.

[discordance]

It's not about parents being dumb. Some of these attacks are very manipulative and convincing.