Posted on 10/06/2009 9:46:02 AM PDT by Pitcairn
Is Obama a disaster zone? Of course he is. Let’s cut through the crap, shall we?
The SOB has never had any experience. And, but for the failed phrase “Compassionate Conservative,” we would never have been where we are today.
What the hell does America have to show for its liberal agenda? Can anyone stand up and affirmatively tell us?
An educational system occupied by apologist leftists? The ideal of community values now epitomized by a lack of gang bangers saying “trick or treat” on Halloween? The concept that “family” is a couple of homosexual men with a child and “nice landscaping?”
Are we kidding ourselves?
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Generation Reagan ping
Bump for later read.
Ping list for the discussion of the politics and social (and sometimes nostalgic) aspects that directly effects Generation Reagan / Generation-X (Those born from 1965-1981) including all the spending previous generations are doing that Gen-X and Y will end up paying for.
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Back in the 1950s and 60s the “black family” was still a family.
Add this Xer
If it has “Generation-X” in the title, it’s likely to be a work of whiny self-absorption tying all sorts of profound truths about the unfairness of life to what TV shows the writer watched when he was a kid and full of blame and resentment directed toward others on account of one’s own problems. This article did not disappoint.
Morris Massey did some Value Training videos, What you are is what you were back then, among them that basically says the values of society when you were 10 years old are the values you will hold for the rest of your life. What are the values of today’s 10 year olds going to be. Will they be called generation O? or 0?
bttt
You think it’s bad now, wait until the godless, media-saturated millenial/Y-generation comes to power.
I’m an X-er, and I saw this coming during the 90’s when the Clintons were winning elections by a landslide. X’ers are the last thread that was remotely influenced by traditional parentage. Most X’ers have gone off the reservation, and those of us who remain will be just a remnant of religious faith, family values, and American tradition.
There literally needs to be an existential crisis for this trend to be reversed in any meaningful fashion.
We might get it, anyway.
A totally canned, boring reaction that we often see thrown out there when a message cannot be refuted with any meaningful substance.
Why not try again but, this time, dazzle us with your myopic rose-colored glasses.
Oh yes. Please tell us what we are all missing when looking at the world today from your, obviously, superior view.
I think all of us born after 1950 are in a way in the same generation, having grown up in a world of an oppressive mass media popular culture. Even so, we are all individuals, and there will be those in “Generation Y” and beyond who will prove resistant to the toxic socialization of popular culture.
The author put his whole piece in a bad light with this peculiar reference. What does this even mean?
Add me to the Xer list please. Born in 1980. God do I miss the Gipper. We haven’t had actual leadership in the White House since he left it.
There are enough “us versus them” situations in the world without creating and/or dwelling on an artificial division based on pop sociology nonsense. None of us in this world asked to be born at a certain time and there is no virtue or vice involved with the date on a birth certificate.
A lot of valid points in here, intermingled with some interesting rants. What most concerns me is that the author talks about his upbringing in a normal American household with all of the perks and memories that many of us have about growing up in America.
Where I have issue is when the author says “Screw you, America”. I won’t place the burden of America’s ills on this writer but I will say that his attitude is part of what is wrong with America and how we got to the point we are today. America IS a great country with great, wonderful and compassionate people. It is worth defending and fighting for and, rather than giving America the finger for the changes we are undergoing today, we ALL need to fight back and take America back from those who want to destroy our country.
But, when things get tough, if we all pick up our toys and go home, America, the land we love, suffers and changes character. We can’t change things for the better if we all adopt the “Screw you, America” attitude; it makes us bystanders at a train wreck.
Gen X ping. DOB 1967. And, yes, I miss Reagan.
Oh, sure there will always be a remnant, but that remnant will become increasingly marginalized until they are cast as mentally ill or irrational or hopelessly out of touch, or at worst, the enemy.
The only thing that Compassionate conservatism did was the Prescription drug bill that shifted drug insurance to Medicare and away from big company retirement plans.
What "Compassionate Conservatism" did NOT do was:
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