And it all started with those silly schoolyard games where no one wins or loses because they don't keep score. Look, little Johnny brought home a "participation" ribbon, and wow they can now choose the next rock star by voting on their phones!
This is the generation that never learned to deal with disappointment, never learned to deal with 'bullies,' and basically are missing core, vital, cultural skills to survive as adults. This sets them up perfectly to become the useful idiots of the progressive left. Mao had a cultural revolution take place in a few years. Children brought their parents out to be shamed and even executed. We're about to see some of this stuff happen in the United States and it will be the millennial generation that falls into this trap.
These last few elections have been crucial. And the American people have failed to choose wisely who will be their President. If the people choose another progressive, Hillary is an admitted progressive, America will fall into the annals of history. There will be a civil war and the Union will be broken.
So true. History repeats itself - it comes out screaming - here I come and people respond the same over and over again. You know what they say about repetition and same results.
It all started at home. At some point, parenting became a competition. Participation trophies are the result of parental demands in order to make the *parents* feel successful under the guise of enhanced childhood self-esteem. Many parents so desperately want to believe the child *they* created and raised is superior in every way and, in their minds, an undeserved cheap plastic trophy enables them to keep that fantasy alive.
A normal parent realizes that nothing builds true self-esteem like actually earning something. That tells me it’s actually all about the parents’ self-esteem.