You and me both, FRiend. I'm 32 now and one of those generations of kids who went through the halls of indoctrination. I even attending public university. How it is that I came out as a conservative is beyond my comprehension. I blame a strong Catholic upbringing.
Thus it is that public education, the gift that keeps on giving, has helped to save or create fifteen million rounds of ammunition which, in spite of previous estimates, may no longer need to be used.
It's all about education. We've seen the "unintended consequences" of Liberal education, and its now nascent in every man or woman studying "education" in college with the goal of becoming a teacher.
I recall meeting the friends of an ex-girlfriend at some point during our relationship. They were both teachers in a large metro area, and they were the haughtiest of the progressive hoi polloi. My ex was not the sharpest knife in the drawer. She was a C-student for the most part, goofed off, and she had a menial secretary job at a doctor's office. Her friends, while not denigrating their friendship with her, assumed that I was "on her level," regardless of the fact that I was a degreed professional with a well-paying job.
When we were all sitting around the kitchen table drinking, they proceeded to laud their accomplishments and how wonderful it was to be teachers and how their intellect was so superior to everyone else's. (No joke, they LITERALLY said this with a straight face.) When they asked what I did with my "bourgeois education," I proceeded to tell them that I was an engineer for a fortune 500 company. You could hear a pin drop.
Moral of the story here is that liberals are wont to laud their own accomplishments. Other liberals will pat them on the back while plotting to take them down. When they encounter someone who, from a practical sense, is higher on the chain (food, intellect, pay scale, etc.), they mentally shut down. They can't handle it. They become borderline suicidal because they realize that their comparatively menial pay and garbage work conditions aren't the utopian ideal they envisioned but the path they were walked through in public schools.
It's only in bucking the trends and coloring outside of the lines that the real greatness in life, education, and career shows itself. Liberals eat their own and denigrate the achievers. That's why they band together so tightly: they know that if the reality of their situation was made ever present, most common-sense-thinking people would abandon ship.
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
Beautiful post. I have seen very similar exchanges. They truly are herd animals.
I’m 54 and am close to weaning the calf crop- I married late.
I was raised right but went thru a phase where I rejected everything in the 70’s. God reached down and woke me back up in late ‘78.
It’s been a struggle ever since, but I’m here for the duration now.
I am amazed at how far this country has fallen in my lifetime, but it is my generation who is largely to blame, myself chief among them. Not that I was a leader of anything, but that I and others slept while the enemy steadfastly advanced...