Posted on 11/24/2009 3:45:47 AM PST by Scanian
Young people are stupid.
I do not exclude myself from this judgment; when a lad newly of voting age, my news addiction made me a curious specimen (though in those days CNN and newspapers were the only dealers in town), and as such I was as well informed a teenage boy as can reasonably be expected. And yet, I supported Ross Perot (ah, the follies of youth) - until he flaked out, of course, after which I drifted back to my natural home in the Republican Party.
And really, is it any wonder young people are given to so much folly, political and otherwise? Good Lord! Who can be expected to think straight with all those hormones coursing through the bloodstream? Thinking clearly at that age is not just a bad idea, it's practically impossible (and thank God for it).
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The young make very good useful idiots.
That is why the communists pushed the generation gap through all the avenues of media, ridiculing the elderly, and shoving them aside.
Of course, there are many intelligent, virtuous young people who get it and whom I exclude here, especially those in the military.
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I can see the same thing happening in our nation.
The worse thing about youth is that it is wasted on young people...I can't recall who said that.
Only youthful ignorance would assume that they can see the truth and that they are capable of replacing their fathers' institutions with ones that they conceive. They are fervent about uniting and working toward a common goal for society, regardless of how many people must die to achieve their goals.
It's not until 20 years have passed and they are doing without the comforts provided by the institutions they destroyed that they begin to realize the amount of effort that went into creating the environment that supported them in their youth.
But, of course, by then it's too late. They are slaves of the state and the ruthless political class.
i take exception to that statement. there are those of us who grew up in conservative homes, had conservative teachers for history, government and economics classes, who sat at the feet of their grand and great-grandparents, listening to stories of their youth, when most of the democrats were more conservative than many of the so-called republicans of today.
i’m a born and bred conservative.
George Bernard Shaw, I do believe.
Not someone I’d typically quote but he hit a bullseye with that one.
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