no surprise... mental illness is hereditary isn't it???Sure, it’s easy to teach children to make emotion-based decisions.
Teaching them to reason, and installing the virtues of ruggedness and self-reliance is much harder.
My Dad, life long Democrat UAW, 82, looked at me about 15 years ago and said - “I just don’t know where I went wrong”
Conservatism requires work and results. Liberalism requires feelings and the hope for results. The latter is much easier to convey to, play on the emotions of, and require of young people.
I refuse to play the "easy" game with my children!
I dunno. Ask David Horowitz.
I dunno. Ask David Horowitz.
Conservatism takes Brains , Guts and the ability to not only call a spade a spade but to make the distinction with your own intellect and not be swayed by outsiders opinions , liberalism is gutless and easy , children brought up in liberalism don’t have the tools and are (for lack of a better term) brainwashed into the doctrine.
I listened to daily union lectures from both of my parents. My Brother is a shop steward and both of them can’t figure out how I wound up conservative.
My parents are big union liberals. 3 out of their 4 kids grew up to be conservatives.
My Mother is a leftist hippie. Yes while I was under her roof I was left of center. But when I left the house and seen the “real” world I quickly moved right, way right.
I would hope that more of these kids would become more independent in their thinking. But the kids of leftist tend to be more dependent on Mommas breast.
Is Hussein a Red Diaper Baby?
Influences are parental, educational, peers, media, etc. The Left’s views are reinforced by the media, academia, and most other cultural bodies. The Right had the religious groups - today most are offering some form of social justice flavor and playing down other aspects. Now it is just parents fighting against everything else pushing in the opposite direction.
The biggest pushers are the media and academia - the two areas voluntarily abandoned by the Right in decades past. Now all cultural bodies meet at a leftist confluence.
My advice is to introduce diseased concepts (i.e. Marxism, fascism, hedonism) on your own terms, but without transparent bias. Cover - at home - the history, classical literature, ethics, philosophy, and other topics the schools either refuse to cover or otherwise teach as to further a leftist agenda. If you opt for public school enrollment, you *will* need to educate to compensate for both the engineered and incidental failings of the public system - not to brainwash.
I’ve always wondered how Pres Reagan and Nancy produced two such liberal kids. Only Michael turned out conservative
You do, but a lot of it has to do with the times.
The Democrats were the majority party in the 1930s and 1940s. A lot of the children and grandchildren of those Democrats turned right in the 1970s and 1980s. So for that matter did a lot of those older Democrats.
In the 1980s and 1990s the Republicans were pretty close to a majority party, so there were more children of Republicans to defect than children of Democrats. There still are. Or at least the countercurrent back to the Republicans hasn't caught on yet.
Easy answer. It’s not parents raising the kids, it’s the liberal education system. Conservatives have their beliefs contradicted, liberals have theirs reinforced.
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I indocrinated my kids to be conservatives since they were children.
Of course they are. It’s EASY to be a liberal, you don’t need to think or make hard decisions.
If you don’t show your children the correct way to behave, odds are they won’t learn it on their own!
Of course they are better at raising like-minded kids. They squelch all discussion with emotion. Liberals can’t even let their friends put forth a conservative opinion, much less their children. I can’t have dinner with liberal friends without them trying to tell me how wrong I am about supporting conservative values. My liberal friends are also constantly spouting their leftist political views on social networking sites. I get very tired of it.
I was always taught there were three things you shouldn’t discuss in social situations: politics, religion and money.
Actually, I believe politics IS the liberals’ religion.
Liberal parents have the advantage of liberal schools.
Conservative parents, on the other hand, have to clean up after liberal schools’ attempts to brainwash their children.
I don’t agree with this. More often than not, the children grow up to ebrace differnt political views than their parents. It’s how the smelly hippies overran their parents of the greatest generation. It’s how gen x grew up as Reaganites, much to the chagrin of their smelly hippy parents. And now gen y has deeply embraced the obamanation, much to gen x’s deep disgust.
I like to label gen y as “smelly hippy, version 2.0”.
Another somewhat related theory I have is about liberal women who abort their children: They do so subconsciosly knowing that they’re offing a future conservative.
My grandfather was a (pro-2nd Amendment!) socialist, he produced one pinko lib, one moderate lib, and my mom, who is conservative on all issues except for abortion and gay rights. My dad is a moderate Republican. I am who I am politically because of independent study and life experiences in the liberal bellies of the beasts.