How Liberals Are Poisoning The Minds Of Young Americans
“We
make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We
laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.”—C.S.
Lewis
“An
empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the
difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.” — Eric
Hoffer
Our
kids are no longer taught about patriotism, morality, honor or
self-reliance. They’re not taught economics. They’re not taught
about the Constitution.
The boys aren’t taught to be men and the
girls aren’t taught to be women. In fact, if you find kids who know
anything about these subjects, it is almost certainly because their
parents bent over backwards to jam that knowledge into their heads.
Our
society used to inculcate these values in schools, church and via our
entertainment. It was a different and, in many ways, better world.
Liberals try to portray everything that happened in America’s past
as evil and backward, but when you look at statistics like these from
Charles Murray’s outstanding book, Coming
Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010,
try and tell me that this country hasn’t gone downhill in the
values we’re teaching our kids.
“To
get a sense of how different attitudes were in the 1960s, perhaps
this will do it. These ever-married women were asked, ‘In your
opinion, do you think it is all right for a woman to have sexual
relations before marriage with a man she knows she is going to
marry?’ …Eighty-six percent said no.”
“Starting
in 1970, marriage took a nosedive that lasted for nearly twenty
years. Among all whites, ages 30-49, only 13 percent were not living
with spouses as of 1970, Twenty years later, that proportion had more
than doubled, to 27 percent — a change in a core social institution
that has few precedents for magnitude and speed.”
Is
it a shocker that millennials lean to the Left when they constantly
have liberalism shoved down their throats by their schools, their
favorite musicians, and Hollywood? I
Is it a big surprise that 51%
of millennials do not support capitalism when
we allow honest-to-goodness communists to teach them in college and
liberals are publicly extolling the virtues of socialist hellholes
like Cuba and Venezuela?
The
Greatest Generation grew up storming Normandy and fighting the
Japanese across the Pacific. Meanwhile, many millennials of the same
age feel “unsafe” if someone they disagree with speaks at an
event they don’t have to attend on their campus.
Oh,
and morality?
Kids today grow up being told that morality is wrong
because morality demands judgment. As Hugh
Hewitt said,
“My
analysis is that most faith based systems depend upon an absolute
moral order. The declaration of things as absolutely evil or
absolutely good, as sin or virtue,
puts liberalism into a horrible
position because it’s founded on no judgment on anything. As a
result, any faith that is seriously practiced or understood is a
challenge to the politics that depend on constituencies that would
rather not be told that their choices are bad and their lives are not
virtuous.”
In
the sixties, American kids were dreaming of building rocket ships and
going to the moon. Today, they’re trying to figure out what gender
they are and which bathroom they should be using. It’s not an
improvement.
This
is where snowflakes come from. It’s where the victimhood mentality
comes from. It’s why so many kids think they’re entitled to have
whatever they want based on what we can only assume is the sheer
gratitude the rest of us should have for their very existence.
As
someone who has millennials working for him, I can tell you that
they’re not a doomed generation. They’re not all snowflakes. They
can be just as successful as past generations of Americans.
However,
to make that happen, we conservatives can’t just keep going with
the flow because it’s easier. We have to teach young Americans
about the values that have made this the most successful, prosperous
nation on earth.
To
start with, we need to begin challenging the victim mentality
liberals push on millennials. As I write in my brand new book, “101
things All Young Adults Should Know,
“Don’t
ever feel sorry for yourself. Don’t ever seek pity from other
people. Don’t ever play the victim, even if you are one. Why? It’s
a mentality. If you wait for someone else to solve your problems,
you’re usually in for a long wait. Even if you do get help, you
probably won’t like the help you get.” Hammer
that message home to your kids. Also, buy a copy of my book. In fact,
buy 30 and give them to all your kids’ friends.
Let’s
cut off the funding of state run colleges which discriminate against
conservatives. Furthermore, if liberal kids keep tearing up Berkeley
every time conservatives want to speak, then maybe Trump should send
in the National Guard to keep order and protect their First Amendment
rights.
We’ve
also got to teach our kids about capitalism, Christianity, and love
of country, because that is what this nation was built on. Snowflakes
may melt when the going gets tough, but kids who are taught good,
conservative values will stand tall even when it’s not easy.
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2017/04/23/how-liberals-are-poisoning-the-minds-of-young-americans-n2316700
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