The really weird thing is—I bet you—if you read Palin’s Indianola, Iowa speech to them without letting them know who it was from, they’d stand around going “yeah, man!” “right on!” “too right!” “damn straight!” or whatever the hell the young’uns say nowadays.
They’re well-meaning, ignorant dupes, mostly. They have a sense that things are really screwed up (wasn’t Hope and Change supposed to give everybody a Unicorn?), but they have never been told the truth about who were the people who actually screwed it up. They’ve been victimized and abused by our educational system—intellectually raped, in fact. They’ve been lied to continuously and repeatedly by people—their teachers, the media—who they’ve been told that they can trust to tell them the truth.
I feel deeply sorry for them, actually.
We have let them down. We, and those who came before us, have failed them, by letting the cancer of “progressivism” spread until it is about to consume this entire country.
We have a LOT of work in front of us, friends . . .
By that logic I suppose you could feel sorry for the entire black community because they've been lied to as well?
I really don't feel sorry for the anti Wall Street mob. What you have, for the most part, is a bunch of intellectually lazy, selfish kids. Have they been fed a bunch of BS? Sure. But when doesn't that happen?
but they have never been told the truth about who were the people who actually screwed it up.
Yes, they have been told the truth. The conservative message is out there. Even on a uber liberal campus echo chamber, the facts are available. These lazy mush heads just don't want to hear it. They are taking the easy way out, demanding other people's money, insisting someone else provide for them and attempting to avoid real life.
They’ve been victimized and abused by our educational system—intellectually raped, in fact.
These kids are no more victims than say, the people of Greece. People who know perfectly well the social welfare state doesn't work, yet refuse to accept that fact as long as there is someone else to blame and the hope they can steal money from the actual producers of society.
We have a LOT of work in front of us, friends . . .
Now THAT, I agree with. People here on FR and elsewhere that think 2012 is going to be some sort of cakewalk are kidding themselves. Almost half of Americans pay no income taxes. The American public, such that it is, is fully addicted to the social welfare state. Obama is going to give people someone to blame - corporations and rich people, and a near majority are going to like that message. Hussein will get no less than 45% of the vote, and he could even win.