Good article.
They used to have the same American values as anyone else. The whole “black culture” was a creation of the progressives who use it to divide.
I grew up and live in almost exclusively white towns with only 1 or 2 black families and those families have been culturally indistinct. There’s a black kid working on the farm down the road from me. Nobody forced him back to the “crop fields”. He chose to work there with his white farm boy friends.
Never gonna happen.
Liberals are stuck on retarded.
“Maybe Minorities’ Values Need Changing”
Maybe???
It is going to take a bit more than a revamp or re package what might have been termed the smaller government party. How to counter decades of public school indoctrination that socialism “ain’t that bad,” government is supposed to help, and America is just another country (founded by old white guys).
The low information electorate is the block to America claiming again her greatness.
Actually, the Republican Party is composed disproportionately of people who believe in the constitution’s limits on the power of government, on limited taxation, and on the princicple that what one earns by one’s own labor, one should keep in order to care for one’s family. They also believe disproportionately in the existence of a Supreme Being who will one day sit in judgment of what one has done with one’s life.
The Democratic Party, meanwhile, is composed primarily of people who believe that what you’ve earned is rightfully mine, and that the endless party of drugs, limitless sex of all varieties, and goofing off should be supported by those who work for a living. They also embrace a virtually endless litany of make believe grudges based primarily on outdated policies and the long ago realities of yesteryear.
Clearly, there are more of the latter characters in the United States than the former.
It is hard to compete with Santa Claus. Those values have been conveyed, but as long as the liberals can keep our country in a economic crisis...we'll see more of this kind of stuff from our younger generation. This article gets it wrong as well. It is the neoliberal economy stupid.
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After this dog and pony show finally came to a close last night I had some real time to think about the effects of "he who shall not be named" winning reelection. I am absolutely amazed how many people in 'Merica vote for someone based on their words, not their actions. People one or two generations older than me like to blame my generation, and it's getting old fast. Those people are partially correct, but only partially. But this tanget isn't about those things. It's a rant about me questioning my own allegiances and beliefs in a political manner.
I would have never voted for Obama, and I didn't. The things he voted for as a Senator and now signed into law as President do not align with my beliefs. But even though I say that, I'm getting ready to separate from the Marine Corps after 10 years of honorable service, and I am going to take full advantage of some of his "social programs".
For example, in some states, you can collect unemployment up to 99 weeks. Obama signed off on that. Yes it had to be passed as well but his administration pushed it and got it. While I earn my engineering degree at college starting this January, I will be on unemployment. I don't know for how long but initially I will be. Once I'm off active duty I will no longer rate TriCare for my wife, my son, and my daughter for health benefits. Thanks to the Affordable Healthcare Act, and Obama extending W.I.C. benefits, my family is going to be covered while I go to school. And since both of my children are currently getting services from the state of California.
Some Republicans wanted to get rid of the Earned Income tax credit in recent proposed budget bills. It's free money essentially for people with children. Personally I love getting almost $9k a year back in taxes, and almost half of it comes from this. Obama's people fought to keep this in. I know what some people might be thinking, $9k is a lot of money come tax time, but let me clarify something. I am a Sergeant (E-5) in the United States Marine Corps with 10 years of service and 2 children. So please tell me I get too much help come tax time and I'll show you a pissed off Marine that has fought for and earned it.
This reflection brought me to a real conclusion about how I want to vote, but who I "should" vote for. It's a real tug of war between what you believe, and what you need.
Its a duh, and I’m offended to have to read about leftist racism discussed in such a scholarly way.
They dare attack me for being white while minorities vote 98% for one candidate. And they attack people with the wisdom of age.
Sure, let’s switch to a society of kids and minorities taking drugs, etc. It’s a 60’s nightmare come to fruition.
F the left and its evil racism, tell them straight out.
What's mine is mine and what's yours is mine.
Bookmark.
That’s “racist.” /sarc
The challenge is to instill a set of values that has no immediate material relevance. Hard work, honesty, self-restraint, humility ... how do those stack up against idleness, scams, self-indulgence, and arrogance? How does the promise of a brighter tomorrow stack up against a paaaaarrrrtyyyyy today?
We know the latter values aren’t sustainable. Any thinking being can understand that. So the solution for the Left is to paint them as “rights:” the “right” to murder your child after you have irresponsible sex; the “right” to free housing; the “right” to cable TV and an obamaphone. In short, the “right” to live off the fruits of someone else’s labors. The White Man deserves to have his wealth confiscated and redistributed. After all, he only attained that wealth through the exploitation of others. And all of a society’s wealth belongs to all of its members, not just the chosen few. Remember, you didn’t build that.
How do we combat that marxist appeal? How do we market bourgeois principles among the (self-)marginalized proletariat?
THAT is our challenge.
Thanks, I got my new tag line - and maybe a bumper sticker.
Republicans have to be courageous enough to tackle this. Even when blacks talk about this (Bill Cosby, Juan Williams), they are shut down and called traitors.
What we have here simply, are tens of millions of uneducated, unemployable people whose vote counts as much as the most productive among us.
The unions and yes....dear hearts...."greedy" businesses have over the years driven the production of "labor intensive" goods out of the US to places where the work is done "cheaper" and with NO union interference..
..SO...we have finally arrived at the point at which many "thinkers" and philosophers have, over the years, opined we would be:
..When people learn that they can vote themselves LARGESS from the public treasury, then its all over. Our Republic cannot withstand an assault on its wealth by tens of millions of people whose only (and preferred?) means of survival is the federal government.
It is going to be a long and hard road back, if we can ever come back since the aforementioned hordes have "elected" people who are hell bent to help them accomplish their dead-beatness.
The only thing that "could" change things is that manufacturers of consumable goods...flip flops, clothing, throw rugs, bath towels, etc....come back to the US and thus employ the less educated people who can do manual labor..
This, of course, assumes that many of the dead-beats want and are willing to work
Absolutely the case.
But where do you start? Particularly with the black community? Things just seem to continually spiral down worse and worse for them, yet they are firmly stuck in the ideological trench.
Our only hope for America is that every conservative takes upon him or herself the project of learning what American and conservative values are, coming to understand what leftism stands for, and learning how to make the case for those values to women, young people, blacks and Hispanics. That is what my radio show, latest book and Prager University are about. And while I am, happily, hardly alone, there are still far too few of us who understand "the vision thing." Surely the Republican establishment has not.
Think where we might be if Karl Rove understood that.The nearly universal response meaning the response offered by the liberal media and liberal academics (and some Republicans) is that the Republican Party needs to rethink its positions, moving away from conservatism and toward the political center.In my heart of hearts, I do not believe in the very existence of the political center. Certainly there are nuances of emphasis which can be politically significant - but in general if you are anywhere near conservative(which belongs in scare quotes because we believe in and promote progress of, by, and for the people just as progressive belongs in scare quotes because progressives believe in progress of, by, and for the politicians)then any movement away from conservatism is movement from a defensible position to an indefensible one.Rush illustrated the point beautifully yesterday by pointing out that no matter what the center," as it conceives itself, of the Republican Party might do to position the party as pro-choice, there would still be people - indeed, millions of people - whom the journalistic left could and would promote as being the heart of the party for whom pro-choice is anathema. So that there is no possible political profit in moving from the principled position toward the liberal position unless you are willing and able to position the party all the way to the left of the Democrats. And, even as they will condemn your lack of principle, the Democrats will still outflank you to the left.
The only possible result of the attempt to "moderate" conservative principle is internal damage to the Republican Party. The true path from Democrat voter to Republican voter is the path from liberal voter to conservative voter. It is the Road to Damascus. The scales have to fall from the eyes of the blinded. And as the saying that a young conservative has no heart, an old liberal has no brain illustrates, it does happen.