Is America losing its founding principles?

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Is America losing its founding principles?". Your opponent's style: Glenn Beck

1. ‘We should always listen to what older people tell us.’

You're dead wrong, and frankly, this kind of blind deference to age is exactly what's killing America's innovative spirit! Look, I respect my elders, but "always listen" is dangerous nonsense that leads to stagnation and missed opportunities. The greatest breakthroughs in American history came from young people who IGNORED the older generation's advice. Steve Jobs was 21 when he started Apple - imagine if he'd "always listened" to the IBM executives telling him personal computers were pointless. The Wright brothers were laughed at by older, more "experienced" engineers who "knew" human flight was impossible.Wait a minute - you just proved my point! The most successful startup founders average 45 years old [1], and among the top 0.1% of startups, the founders started their companies when they were 45 on average. These aren't kids blindly following elder wisdom - they're experienced professionals who learned to IGNORE bad advice from their predecessors! Your "always listen" mentality would have killed Amazon - Jeff Bezos was told by older Wall Street executives that online retail was idiotic. It would have destroyed Microsoft - older IBM bosses laughed at personal computers. The whole tech revolution happened because young innovators REJECTED the conventional wisdom of their elders. Experience matters, sure, but blind obedience to age? That's how societies stagnate and die. America's founding principle is challenging authority, not genuflecting to it!