Posted on 11/15/2016 2:23:58 PM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
If the rising generation of young progressives allow themselves to believe Donald Trump is just a bump in the road to inevitable Democratic success. . . they are in for even more rude awakenings in the future.
... the Millennial generation inspires a ridiculous degree of overgeneralization. It is possible for a generation of this size to include more entrepreneurs and more slackers, more libertarians, socialists, dedicated believers and more unchurched nones.
It is also a generation split in two given the very different experiences within the cohort as it relates to social media. ... if you were born in 1990 or beyond, you have no memory of a world without cell phones and social media. These have very different lessons in how you view the world, and in your susceptibility to viewing it entirely through the warped lens social media experiences can create.
This has an impact on our politics as well.... If you were born in 1990, ... the first time you could cast a vote was in 2008, in the first election truly influenced by social media. The lessons you learned from that election were charted by an inspirational young political figure, whose status as a relative novice didn’t prevent you from trusting that he could bring incredible change to the existing political system.
... the Obama years were not a good time for positive growth or introspection on the part of Millennials. This is in part due to the near-constant hype of demographic destiny on the part of the Democratic intelligentsia. ....
.... the only thing holding them back is a handful of racist white male Fox News viewers. Victory, in the framing of many Democrats, was just a matter of time, waiting for old Republicans to die off and ushering a new progressive era.
(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...
The power of the Presidential “bully pulpit” is stronger than ever, especially for a manufactured media darling and preferred minority President.
Certainly, Obama and his regime planned, organized and supported certain leftist community organizers for specific political purposes. Ferguson and subsequent #BLM are a case in point. But even without tacit organization and support, Obama and his media provided tacit societal approval to every junior community-organizer out there, to air every grievance, no matter how ridiculous.
The “emerging Democratic majority” charted by John Judis and Ruy Teixeira in 2002 has been the underpinning for an enormous amount of hubris on the part of party leaders, confident that a new multicultural coalition would place them in power forever, and that the only thing holding them back is a handful of racist white male Fox News viewers.Victory, in the framing of many Democrats, was just a matter of time, waiting for old Republicans to die off and ushering a new progressive era.
It is not just millenials, but also a couple more generations of angry older women. I know because I am getting a lot of crap from some of them that I have maintained very loose contact with on the net.
Generally, it starts with namecalling against Trump, may include some unproven allegations about sexual predatory, a display of ignorance (in some form) about what it takes to be a successful businessperson, and goes downhill from there.
I am sick of hearing this.
BHO was no political novice. He had been in politics his whole life with one honest job, scooping ice cream. He was fired from that job because he did the same thing there he did in office, he stole property and gave it to his friends.
The lesson that they are trying to push here is that we should only trust people who have been in elected office for long periods.
Nonsense.
The longer they have been in politics the less they should be trusted.
Give me the guy who has had an actual job in the recent past.
The idea of a career politician was abhorrent to the founders who's ideal was the citizen politician who served a term or two and then went back to his business.
And, um, they always have a lot of animals, usually cats, that they take care of and help find homes for, right?
Yeh, I know the type.
Always remember:
BILL CLINTON IS A RAPIST! and a serial sexual predator. I am glad that his victims stepped forward to help defeat the enabler of Clnton’s transgressions.
I hope and pray the ladies feel a sense of healing and gratification from this open retaliation against the Clintons.
I hope it puts men in positions of power on notice that they never will know when a ‘casual’ rape or assault may come back to haunt them or destroy them.
yes, and the home that the pets often end up in are their parents’. this allows them to spend more for a hipster upscale urban apartment, which they then trash by piling 4 people into a 2 bedroom apartment (which they omit to mention on their facebook pages, which are full of veiled references to the latest cosmo sex craze of the month, or whatever). Or all of the above plus lying to the landlord about the cats that they sneak in “temporarily” from their college days. I think this might be somewhat of a simple extrapolation of what you describe.
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