Posted on 11/06/2008 6:40:52 AM PST by AJKauf
At least seven out of ten Obama supporters who were reveling in his coming victory were under the age of 30 — and that’s a conservative estimate. None of these people were even alive when Vietnam, Watergate, assassinations, and riots cleaved us in two, ripping the fabric of our national polity asunder and opening a chasm between the two sides that may — just may — have begun to close with Obama’s victory last night.
At least seven out of ten Obama supporters who were reveling in his coming victory were under the age of 30 — and that’s a conservative estimate. None of these people were even alive when Vietnam, Watergate, assassinations, and riots cleaved us in two, ripping the fabric of our national polity asunder and opening a chasm between the two sides that may — just may — have begun to close with Obama’s victory last night.
His young supporters know little of the Vietnam era and care about it less. And like it or not, and for whatever reason, they see the United States in a different way than their parents. They have the passion (and ignorance) of youth animating their vision of America. It remains to be seen what happens to their faith when Obama’s efforts at reform turn out not quite as earth shattering as they might be hoping...
(Excerpt) Read more at pajamasmedia.com ...
America cannot last much longer as a free country....
"one man, one vote" has done internally what direct assaults by nazi-ism, communism and radical islam could not do...
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years.
AUTHOR: Alexander Fraser Tytler (1747–1813)...
Adios America, I have loved you.....
Hope they enjoy the military with the homos, pervos, and little women running everything. Going to war with no bullets in their guns. Getting blown up to show how pacifist a country we are. Taking body blows from the enemy without the ability to respond. Being laughed at, spit on, cursed, beaten, and robbed. Taking a nice big pay cut. Making do without any new equipment. It goes on.
Those 18 to 32 year olds are starving for someone to lead them/love them/show them value. There is a void in their lives that has been caused by the do what feels good, no absolutes in life culture they have been raised in. All I saw was spiritually starving people cheering and shouting for this man who speaks of hope. There is only one thing that will fill that void - the hope of Christ. It isn’t Bobby Jindal/Sarah Palin/Newt. All people I admire and suppor. It is Christ. The fields are ripe for harvest. The church has to step up one life at a time. This isn’t a political battle. It is a spiritual one.
Bump, little j.
And I further then find that those people characteristically fall short in self-confidence and self-reliance, and constantly approach life with trepidation.
They always have a mouse in their pocket and a scowl on their face.
Yes, the youngsters, the people who know everything, elected UHHbama, with plenty of help from unmarried women and minorities. The ONLY age group that went Republican was the oldest, and wisest.
Somehow I just happen to see a big black X in the middle of her dress and it made me think of Malcolm X, but your comparison is just too close for comfort !
Ever see the movie, “Wild in the steets?”
Eeeek!! I wish you hadn’t posted that - creeped me out!! The spider is also creepy.
...and the "civilian peace force" (obama goons) start patrolling your neighborhood playing loud rap music..
..and they come to your house demanding to search for weapons.....
If barry thinks he can control people like Malik Shabazz, the black panthers and the nation of islam, he is delusional...
...and....
I am keeping my powder dry..
Now is the time for the Republicans to state clearly why Obama's strategies are doomed to fail - offer commonsense alternatives - and NOW is the time to start trying to peel off the Dems' black supporters who are possessed of common sense.
There will be serious disappointments with Obama's policies among the black community when reality sets in, and the Republicans have a coming opportunity to recast their own image and dent the Dems most loyal support group by appealing directly to blacks in the next few years. It will be prime time to illustrate that bad policy in black skin does not equate to economic advancement for black people, use it as a teaching lesson, and recruit blacks to the Republican party. Obama's symbolic value will be worn off in 2012, and the Republicans are currently not a complete party if they have no articulate message for both the working and unworking poor, - which it seems at present they don't. Time to sieze a historic opportunity out of the ashes of defeat.
Don’t black widows kill their mates?
I think little hussein better watch his back!
You forgot the little husein won’t be there either!
But taking such a test . . . wouldn’t that require them to be able to read? I dunno. Sounds pretty repressive to me!
I agree, Shirgarian. Although, I feel that parents shouldn't dress a child as young as the youngest daughter in a BLACK dress.
That gave me the creeps, and to me, further questioned the mother's judgement.
History is one huge void to them. They know zilch about other nations, which is kind of ironic given the obsession with multiculturalism. They know about PC figures from American history, such as MLK, but otherwise know little. They know America did some “bad things”, like enslave people, run the Indians off their land, lock up the Japanese in camps, deny women the vote, and “invade Vietnam”. They don't know all the details, of course, but they know we were a pretty bad place until we sorta, kinda started to get better in the 1960s.
And that's about it. They think it's cool to be rebellious, to speak truth to power, to challenge the system, and that means to vote the way the media, pop culture, and their professors and textbooks tell them to vote. That's contradictory, but they don't have the logical reasoning skills to figure that out. They just know, or more properly, feel, that liberalism is the right way to go. It'll change the world. No more war, no more worries about health care or other material desires, no more racism or sexism or homophobia, no more rules against doing whatever you feel like doing, no more global warming, no more rising tides, no more inequality.
Up to this point, their parents have taken care of them, and they're still living on daddy's credit card at age 25 or so. Actually going out into the real world without a liberal safety net seems frightening. It's, like, totally too harsh. Yesterday one of my students who worships Obama asked what I thought of the election. I said it looks as if people now want government to take care of them around the clock. He looked at me as if to say, “isn't that the government's job?”
Now, all this is a generalization. It isn't true of every young person, but it is true of a decisive number of them. Many will change when reality forces them to get a job and start paying taxes. Others will change when they have kids and start worrying about something other than their own pleasure. A lot of Obama’s white supporters will change when they realize that “post-racial” means that whites must ignore race but every other racial groups is permitted to wallow in it. But by that time it'll probably be too late.
Of course, my dream is to see what happens when the Democrats bring back the draft. That would be a laugh riot.
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I was replying to your tagline.
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