Posted on 09/16/2013 5:42:07 AM PDT by ReformationFan
Every so often the wonks of wishful thinking give us an article about how blacks are becoming Republicans, how Hispanics are supposedly a natural GOP constituency, or, as is the subject here today, how the millennial generation is turning "conservative." Perhaps pundits asserting the last thing recall Winston Churchill's observation, "If you're not a liberal at 20, you have no heart; if you're not a conservative at 40, you have no brain." And perhaps they overlook that it's possible to raise a brainless generation.
Don't think, as one might, that this will be a typical analysis sneering at the proverbial "next generation" using the perceived gold standard of one's own. After all, I realize that my generation is the tree the millennial nut fell from. Placing matters in further perspective, it's true that older and younger generations ever slam each other; it's also true that they both are always partially right. Lastly, I'll say that I don't at all consider the WWII FDR voters the "greatest generation," though it makes for a nice narrative. The greatest generation was the one that founded our nation and wondered if we could "keep" its republic, and there has been a consistent, but accelerating, degeneration ever since. In discussing our latest movement toward idiocracy, my starting point will be a Sept. 4 American Thinker article written by one Chriss Street. In making his case for millennial hope, Mr. Street points out that while 61 percent of millennials voted for Barack Obama in 2012, his approval among them has now sunk to 46 percent. But this is a deceptive statistic. For an approval rating amounts to the judging of a candidate relative to people's ideal personal standard for the presidency, whereas in an election he is judged relative to another specific candidate for the presidency.
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I don’t know, “dead brined” is pretty accurate IMO. Many millenials’ brains have been pickled into insensibility by the common culture & are now preserved in a brine of Skinny Girl pre-mixed.
Miley Cyrus should have been run out of town on a rail by now (though she’d probably enjoy it); instead this pop tart is celebrated for her “artistic independence” or some such.
Oh well, back to reading how we baby boomers have stolen & squandered the rightful inheritance of succeeding generations.
Or not succeeding. Thunderbird wine is said to be flying off the shelves.
;^)
I think they got the last of their mileage out of the “small, less intrusive government” bulls**t in the 1990’s. I was still buying it in 1994, when after running on that platform they promtly showed how much they meant it by nationalizing child support enforcement. They got more and enamored with big government once they were in charge.
Agreed... both of my kids self identify as Libertarian, though my daughter is very much pro life.
In Obama’s economy they will remain at Momma’s house, until they are eligible for medicare.
They'll only be mugged when Uncle Sugar cannot keep the EBT cards filled. Then we will all be mugged.
I actually didn’t express myself properly. I should have said that age is a factor as well, given the fact that white youths vote far differently than their elders.
Well, we disagree on the theology. It’s ridiculous to say that you can judge the behavior of believers but not non-believers.
You both sound like modernists.
Agreed. They’ve basically been taught the ultimate virtue is to be indiscriminate and undiscerning. Which is ridiculous since in reality no one(liberal or conservative or inbetween, young or old) can get through the day without being able to discern and use his discrimination abilities.
Sounds like to their credit, your nephew and his wife realize that to be truly Christian one must agree with Jesus’ teachings on marriage in Matthew 19:4-6 and support protecting life and the natural family. It’s sad that they have rejected Christianity but I get far more annoyed with folks who say the pro-abortion/homosexualist/promiscuity positions are “compatible” with Christianity or that Jesus Himself advocated such beliefs when there’s no Scripture to support such a contention.
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