Posted on 05/19/2014 4:45:08 AM PDT by Kaslin
When the whole shoddy edifice of the progressive project collapses under its own dead weight, it will largely be because the liberals forgot to breed enough mindless minions to keep shoring it up. The left has always depended on a never-ending parade of credulous children to revitalize its dwindling ranks as the march of time and maturity depletes them. Liberal youth would grow up, look around, realize how progressivism is a disaster, and largely stop buying into the nonsense.
But now, young people are wising up earlier. This is bad news for liberals, but great news for America.
Our youth – those in college and younger – are starting to reject the nonsense pushed by the progressive clown car of communism-lite. This presents an opportunity for the most counterintuitive of alliances, that of those entering adulthood and those of us who entered it long ago and are now reaping the benefits of liberalism’s shameful transfer of wealth and power to those of us who have already made it on the backs of those just starting out.
We need to distinguish the youth from the older Millennials, who are famously infatuated with The One. And we even need to distinguish among the Millennials, because some of that generation have rejected the value-free values of their cohort. In particular, we must note those glorious Millennial warriors who have served their Nation in war. Their selfless service has justly earned them a place of honor in America’s Valhalla, where the heroes of Lexington, Iwo Jima and Ia Drang await their coming to the places at the table their courage has earned them.
But the rest of the Millennial generation just needs to be slapped.
Maybe they will learn too, albeit through the magic of pain. Maybe it’s too late. Regardless, their younger brothers, sisters and gender-indefinite siblings have seen the Millennials’ eager embrace of progressivism repaid with the expectation that they will bear the full cost of the political payoffs liberals promised to more useful and wealthy Democrat demographics. People like me, an established trial lawyer in the bluest part of the bluest state. Obama has been just awesome for folks like me, and that unjust awesomeness has been paid for by a Millennial generation mired in debt and unemployment. But it often seems that this travesty bothers me more than it bothers them.
Maybe we should rename the Millennials “the Suckers.”
Yet the generation behind them doesn’t seem so thrilled at the prospect of subsidizing the lavish lifestyles of left-leaning coastal professionals via eternal toil at breakfast beverage stands. Good. It’s great to see young people getting mad at the gigantic con liberalism is running on them.
Why are young people getting less liberal? First, we need to understand that they are not necessarily getting more conservative. Remember, these young people are just emerging from 13+ years in the liberal conformity factories of the progressive educational complex. They’ve been trained to hate conservatives; they’d think a conservative was the equivalent of the antichrist if they knew who Christ was.
But look at it from their point of view. All they’ve seen in their young lives is liberals lying to them. They are not stupid. They are just unwise, both because they are young and, in many cases, because they were raised by glorified man/womynchildren who confuse helicoptering with parenting.
They see the lies. They understand that it’s a bad idea to come out of college with $250K of debt and a double major in Marxist Pottery and Selective Outrage. They hear from their liberal overlords about open-mindedness, tolerance and rights, yet see these same liberals foaming at the mouth to root out any dissenting views and sacrificing due process on the altar of political correctness. They know a kangaroo court when they see one, and they see the offending marsupials are bitter liberal feminists, sophomore race hustlers, and cowardly university administrators without the intestinal fortitude to tell these leftist lynch mobs to go back to their dorms.
These are children of the Internet, versed in social media, used to a free-wheeling, no-holds-barred electronic frontier – and they understand that every progressive from Obama on down is slobbering for a chance to rein it all in. Look at the NSA revelations; what can be tracked, inevitably with these eager Thought Policepeople, will soon be controlled. These young people have endured the soul-deadening nightmare of liberal thought control all through their real life school years – they don’t want it in their virtual lives too.
And, operating under the radar, is a cultural subversion of the liberal paradigm. For example, those crazy kids love their Hunger Games. It’s not exactly a portrait of a world Milton Friedman might design; it seems an awful lot like one the liberal DC/Hollywood nexus would enjoy.
Then there’s this fascinating, conservative video game called “Minecraft” that all the kids are into. I got a quick briefing on it before shooing some of them off my lawn.
It warmed my heart. Minecraft allows kids to create virtual worlds, limited only by their imagination and their willingness to work. The thing is that the resources don’t simply appear – you have to obtain them. The kids can work or barter to get the resources they want. It’s pure capitalism. And it even has bad guys that try and steal one’s resources or destroy one’s creations, so you have to defend what’s yours.
It’s kind of like real life. Don’t think of it as a time-sucking game. Think of it as training. These young people are being trained – often for the first time – that work leads to rewards, that capitalism works, and that sometimes you need to deal the pain to dirtbags.
The kids are gravitating to cultural phenomena that can function as Conservatism 101. Let’s hope it takes. And this could even be good for the Millennials. These Obama-loving saps will have a whole new, younger generation to sell artisanal teas and espressos.
The left is stoking the fire of ethnic tribalism in this country. By the time young people politically wake up the gaps between the races will be too wide to gulf. IMO.
I've been waiting for a long time to see that happen...
I think it’s wishful thinking, too...here’s my question, do places ever recover from a progressive nuclear bomb? Do they? I know I cheer for a “let the system crash,” etc, etc., but look at different places around the country... they never get better, they just lay around in their misery. They never seem to learn, they just wait for “somebody else,” to come along and fix it all (mostly government again). They’re never “fed up” enough to fix it themselves.
I just see little hope.
bttt
This shows that I haven't had a heart since age 11. While watching the 1976 GOP Convention at the ripe age of 12, I wept bitterly as the delegates nominated Gerald Ford over Ronald Reagan.
Too late. Will not happen unless there is a total economic collapse (SHTF) before the police state is fully in place (e.g. USDA buying submachine guns).
The Baby Boomer leeches, combined with their grandkids, have reached critical mass for permanently establishing a Marxist government.
The Wild West had small weak government and the bad guys ruled. Don’t get me wrong, I am very conservative. I just think government is a problem not easily solved.
My goodness, such Monday morning quarterbacking, good grief!
This too shall pass.
The Wild West had little violence. NYC was more violent than Dodge City. The bad guys did not rule the West, except in so far as the government and the railroads (crony capitalism) were the Bad Guys.
Although people are somewhat inherently bad, they are also cautious and interested in self-preservation. Our "need" for government (to keep us safe) is much over-hyped.
The bad guys ruled until the town got a strong sheriff. That’s all a town needs to control crime: a strong sheriff, willing deputies, and a populace that knows the difference between right and wrong.
I think this upcoming generation is simply cynical of the way things are. They know that they will be paying for the Baby Boomers their entire working lives. They know that there will be nothing for them when they retire. And they know that there is nothing they can do to change it.
That “young liberalism” is simply a false sense of righteousness.
Young liberals derive their sense of “good personhood” from their activist issues, which involve forcing others, through government, to do “the right thing”.
They really recoil when you put in it stark terms - “you’re not a good person, you’re a thief, a cowardly one at that, who uses the guns of government to steal to make you feel good about yourself.”
A young person that is biblically trained won’t fall for that crap.
That's a catchy phrase. They ought to put it on a bumper sticker or something. ;-)
Yet, you can be Bible at ANY AGE, not just at a young age.
Run for your local school board.
“Liberals hold all the cards, MSM, education, etc.”
I agree. It is a multi-front war. Which front is the weakest?
I think it is the MSM. Their strength and their weakness is their revenue source. Strength because it is indirect. So they can push liberal garbage and you can indirectly support it by buying their advertisers products and pay the cable bill even you vomit in reaction to some(most) of their programming. Weakness because we can live without most of the products and services advertised.
All I want is an honest debate. Cut the cable tv, buy generic, eat out local owned only. Tell cable, networks is all you want is an honest debate.
During the American Revolution, 10% provided support. It only takes 10% to change the world.
The end goal would be at least one of the network’s shareholders, management to see that they need to provide
an honest debate to survive.
All I want is an honest debate.
“Sure about that?”
I’m reminded of the blind men describing the elephant. People tend to focus on what they know to the exclusion of what they don’t know. I have no idea whether my view of the world, coming as it does from very filtered contacts, represents the real view of the world. I’d have to sample opinions on every topic from eight or nine hundred randomly chosen individuals. I’m white, 60, middle class and there are places I never go, such as bars or strip clubs, but which are nevertheless packed with people. I will never know their views. Neither, most likely, will the author. None of us truly have all the facts. We operate on a necessarily false image of the world that we keep on a shelf in our minds.
“America has a two party political system, and a one party media.”
Winston Churchill
Radicals always see the world as a teenager does so who is training who look what the 60’s radicals did they went to D.C. and Hollywood no wonder we have Obama in office.
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